The Low Iodine Diet
Right now Enrique is on another special diet: low-iodine. It's not as bad as the previous one. But he can't eat dairy, soy, seafood or anything with iodized salt or sea salt. He also has to limit his intake of meat.
It pretty much rules out any restaurant meal, because there's no way to be sure of the salt they're using.
By depriving his body of iodine, he'll make any remaining thryoid tissue in his body hungry to absorb iodine. That way, when he takes the radioactive iodine in 10 days, the tissue will suck it up and die - hopefully removing any bits of cancer that remain in his body.
One week after he takes the radioactive iodine he'll get a scan to determine if there's any cancer left.
It pretty much rules out any restaurant meal, because there's no way to be sure of the salt they're using.
By depriving his body of iodine, he'll make any remaining thryoid tissue in his body hungry to absorb iodine. That way, when he takes the radioactive iodine in 10 days, the tissue will suck it up and die - hopefully removing any bits of cancer that remain in his body.
One week after he takes the radioactive iodine he'll get a scan to determine if there's any cancer left.
posted by eliot at 4:56 PM
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