Whether Repeated Use Of Disinfectant Containing Iodine Causes Overdosed Intake Of Iodine

Background: Disinfectants containing iodine are widely used in medicine field. It has been most commonly chosen by surgeons as the classic disinfectant for pre-operative scrub. Iodine is also a material for the thyroid gland to produce thyroid hormone, and the inadequate intake of iodine has been known to contribute to thyroid diseases. On the year 2001, it was known that the overdosed intake of iodine can also cause many kinds of thyroid diseases. Object: To determine whether repeated use of iodine as surgery scrub will causes overdosed intake of iodine. Methods: Determine the level of iodine intake of a group of surgeons and scrub nurses in Zhongshan Hospital who have been intensively using iodine as per-operative hand scrub, Then run the test again to the same group of people as a self-control after the hospital replaced the disinfectant with a new one without iodine, and contrast the results of the two times. Results: After analyzing the result from the specimen of 71 people and their self-control, it is believed that the intensive use of disinfectant with iodine does not cause overdosed iodine intake, and that after stop using it there is no significent decrease of the level of the iodine intake.