Iodine-Induced Retinopathy: A Case Report

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• iodine
• toxic
• retinopathy