Iodine and Crohn's

[Keezee]

Do you know much about Iodine? My wife was told to eat fish by her doctor today and she is a vegetarian so I wanted to know why. She didn't ask so I called about it. I assumed it was for fish oil, but she has a potential blockage right now so it didn’t make sense. (She had a resection 5 years ago or so)

I was told it was because fish has a lot of iodine in it. The nurse didn’t seem to know why exactly that would be good for an IBD patient so I went back to the net to try to find out. This is what I found:

Iodine is needed in the cells of the small intestines to produce the specific carbohydrate digestion enzymes maltase, lactase, and sucrase. That makes sense if she wasn’t getting enough iodine to aid digestion, we have not been using salt for some time now, and we changed to sea salt which has no iodine. We’re putting her on a supplement with iodine to see if it helps, can you offer anything else?

 

[fgillette1986]

I would try enzymedica. I take one pill of enzymedica digest before every meal and one pill before bed. It has really done wonders for me and it includes both maltase and lactase. I started taking it because after a blood analysis I had a slight issue with rouleaux (red blood cells stacking on top of each other) as well as signs of unbroken down proteins in my blood.

 

[Guest]

by pure coincidence, i have just started taking a multi-vitamin and mineral supplement, which includes 100% of the RDA of iodine. i didn't actually know what iodine's role was, until i read this thread, so thank you Keezee!

i decided to take them mainly for my bones - i'm on calcium and vit D, but know that magnesium plays a major part in bone strength too, hence my choice to take minerals as well as the usual vits.