University of Health Sciences Turkey Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Elazığ, Turkey.
Onsekiz Mart University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Çanakkale, Turkey.
Turk J Ophthalmol. 2020 Aug 26;50(4):255-257. doi: 10.4274/tjo.galenos.2020.02686.
Potassium iodide is used as an iodine supplement in salt as part of a national program in Turkey. An overdose of iodine has a toxic effect on the retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptors. The case presented here is a patient who developed retinopathy following consumption of an excessive dose of iodine.
碘化钾作为一种碘补充剂,被添加到食盐中,作为土耳其全国性项目的一部分。碘过量对视网膜色素上皮和光感受器有毒性作用。本文报道的病例是一位患者因摄入过量碘而发生的视网膜病变。