8. Pregnancy complications
During pregnancy, the body needs thyroid hormones, therefore it needs sufficient doses of iodine to produce them. Indeed, iodine is necessary for the healthy formation of the skeleton and the central nervous system of babies in the uterus.
Pregnancy also leads to an increase in the synthesis of thyroid hormones and therefore requires a more active consumption of iodine.
The fetus will take part in the mother’s iodine production in order to ensure the synthesis of its own thyroid hormones that are essential to the development of its brain. Iodine is necessary to avoid thyroid hypertrophy in the mother and psychomotor and intellectual disorders in the child.
It is well documented that iodine deficiency in pregnant women can be a cause of a number of difficult conditions: premature delivery, spontaneous abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and developmental disorders of the central nervous system responsible for cretinism and psychomotor retardation. That is why in case of pregnancy, a woman must take extra care to take thyroid hormones with iodine, since they are necessary for the normal formation and development of the fetal thyroid gland.
