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Iodine Deficiency Disorder - Necessity of National control program
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Iodine Deficiency is the world’s most prevalent – yet easily preventable – cause of brain damage. Today the world is on the verge of eliminating it – an achievement that will be hailed as a major public health triumph, ranking together with smallpox and poliomyelitis. In India it became important to devise ways to combat this menace. Iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) jeopardize children’s mental health – often their very lives. They start before birth. Serious iodine deficiency during pregnancy may result in stillbirths, abortions and congenital abnormalities such as cretinism, a grave, irreversible form of mental retardation that affects people living in iodine-deficient areas of Africa and Asia. However, of far greater global and economic significance is IDD’s less visible, yet more pervasive, level of mental impairment that lowers intellectual prowess at home, at school and at work. |
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Qayyum45
Posted on: 05/07/2010 promote iodised salt and prevent IDD in fact this should be part of pre-school,early education program
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