Robin, I do not think that either iron or iodine are harmless. That is why they have become public safety issues. If you remember they used to have iodine in everyone's medicine cabinet and people didn't know they had an allergy until they used it. I pitched more than a few bottles out of first aid kits as a designating nurse. Sorry you have such a terrible reaction to it.

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Can too much iron affect your heart?

Hemochromatosis (he-moe-kroe-muh-TOE-sis) causes your body to absorb too much iron from the food you eat. Excess iron is stored in your organs, especially your liver, heart and pancreas. Too much iron can lead to life-threatening conditions, such as liver disease, heart problems and diabetes.

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@A MyHeartDiseaseTeam Member,
The answer is simpler then you think and it is highly dependent on your diet. I've always been small so as a young adult my doctor told my mom it was because I didn't have enough iron in my blood a gave me prescription for it. Two weeks later I was in the ER with iron poisoning. I have allergies and my eyes can be darker then they should be because of that and doctor would tell people that without testing your blood. I saw him only for a general check-up once a year but saw an allergist once a month. I saw him once a week for the first 12 years of my life. I have a lot of allergies and have never had the common cold, flu, pneumonia, nor have I have I had chicken pox, measles, or mumps. I've didn't take any of the Covid vaccines and never had that either. My cardiologist didn't recommend that I take it, he said it is an inactive form but in a virus free system it is possible to activate it.
But iron and all those supplements people are taking can hurt you if there isn't a proper need. Have to much is not healthy. The old saying of you are what you eat has Merit. My mom taught food and nutrition for the health department and that old food pyramid works. Unless you have a proven anemia, meaning blood tested you should never take supplements and never take OTCs but those given to you by prescription.
Take care,
Robin

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@A MyHeartDiseaseTeam Member,
Iodine isn't as harmless a substance as you think. And in people like myself and two of my siblings it is a major problem. The first thing I learned to buy in a store was salt that didn't contain iodine. It isn't naturally found in salt but as a number of other things it is a food additive and even in a small dose it is very dangerous to me. And until later years it wasn't always an additive.
For those of us with the allergy it is life threatening. I will post a photo of my face several after being iodine and it's antidote, the have to be administrator at the same time. It was necessary as they needed to properly place my leads for my A-ICD. Unlike most beliefs it is not natural occurring in salt. It isn't in kosher salt, sea salt, or plan salt but is an addictive just like calcium silicate(an anti-caking agent)

Remember the photo is over 8 hours after the antidote was given and I was finally taken off of oxygen.

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