GOITRE AND QUACKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 7, 30 March 1927, Page 13

GOITRE AND QUACKS

lODINE DANGERS UNSUPERVISED USE RISKY DR. WATT’S WARNING Press Association WELLINGTON, Tuesday. erS r 'o£ l lle'nt t h f e P«y-l>lrector-Gen- °\ Health, to-day made an irnstatement, regarding goitre a tid the use of iodine. .'The injudicious use of iodine ” he said, is accompanied by serious risk eni tranßform simple or ordinarv form t'V 1 , r , nU . C , h more ser i°uß toxic k V Indeed, there is some reason wTfh that actual harm has been done within the last two or three HuftT B ’, “ 3 the death rate and admission rate to hospital from the toxic boitre group has shown a marked increase There is more than a suggestion that the public is using so-called goitre remedies without adequate m ?. ca l su P erv ’ision. • lodised salt in the proportion used m New Zealand is, so far as is known, wholly free from risk, and can only do good. Administration in the form of a lozenge containing one grain by the school medical authorities is another form on an established basis. “Apart from iodised salt and lozenges, preparations containing iodine or a salt thereof should only be taken for the prevention or cure of goitre under the direct supervision of a m€‘dical man. “The Department has been impressed with the need of control of the use of so-called goitre remedies, and in the near future purposes to regulate the sale of such remedies.”