might know, that has no added iodine, and neither does the salt in
processed foods. In
fact, there has been an increase in
babies born with thyroid problems since sea salt became
popular and mothers were misled that 'natural' is always better.)
Anyway, since giving iodine worked (and since she received no treatme
nt for autoimmune thyroiditis), we can assume
the goiter arose from thyroid deficiency. The thyroid does not always go down completely after that, btw.