iodized oil

Also, injections are more expensive and more difficult to administer than oral medications, thus there is interest in giving iodized oil by mouth.

His team first suggested the injection of iodized oil (see poppyseed oil) to goiter patients, a treatment later advocated by the WHO.

A recent clinical trial in which iodized oil was given by mouth found that the amount of iodine taken up (see bioavailability) varied with the amount of oleic acid in the oil.

Until its closure in 1989, it became the community laboratory of the UP College of Medicine, and it was there that Campos conducted testing on the use of iodized oil for the treatment of goiter.

He studied the iodine deficiency on a population level and showed role of cassava (manioc) and thiocyanate in endemic goiter and worked on the use of iodized oil in iodine deficiency disorders prevention.