Potassium iodide safety caveats from LEF

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I'm posting this as I've been considering a few on here use this supplement.




Potassium iodide

Potassium iodide can cause hyperthyroidism in older people with nodular goiters.
Potassium iodide may exacerbate symptoms of autoimmune thyroiditis.
Potassium iodide may cause rashes, arrhythmias, central nervous system effects (confusion, numbness, tingling, weakness in the hands or feet), hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism (Jod-Basedow phenomenon), parotitis (iodide mumps), thyroid adenoma and small bowel lesions.
Potassium iodide may cause hypersensitivity reactions including angioedema, symptoms resembling serum sickness (fever, arthralgia, eosinophilia, lymphadenopathy), cutaneous and mucosal hemorrhages, urticaria, thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura (TTP), and fatal periarteritis.
Enteric-coated potassium iodide may cause nonspecific small bowel lesions manifested by stenosis with or without ulcerations. These lesions may cause hemorrhage, obstruction, perforation and death.
Chronic intake of pharmacological doses of iodides (>2 mg) can lead to iodism characterized by frontal headache, pulmonary edema, coryza (head cold), eye irritation, skin eruptions, gastric disturbances, as well as inflammation of the tonsils, larynx, pharynx, and submaxillary and parotid glands