Endemic goiter “hurts� health
The problem of an endemic goiterа is extremely important and actual for many countries. More than 1 billion people live in places with the lowered iodine contents in biosphere (water, ground, air, food stuffs). As a result of such insufficiency 200 million people have endemic goiter, 20 million have mental deficiency on a ground of thyroid gland hormones insufficiency.
According to World Health Organization, overcoming of this problem could become the most essential achievement in medicine, surpassing on importance eradication of smallpox.
According to the medical statistics, now actual average consumption of iodine by Russia citizens makes 40-80 mkg a day, when norm is 150-200 mkg. In conditions of such microelement lack, thyroid gland should work more intensively and faster, therefore it becomes large.
But it is possible to counter this problem. To prevent consequences of the endemic goiterа medicine uses: iodine enrichment of widely used food stuffs; assignment of iodine preparations to those, who feels special need for iodine (first of all children, teenagers, pregnant and feeding women).