Is there any direct connection between bakery product's molds and hyperthyroidism ?

Question

I am a 46 year old CPA who had ameobiasis in 1988, drank a mold-laden softdrink in 2002, and ate a prematurely expired bread which also developed molds in the month of November 2003.

I was finally diagnosed to have hyperthyroidism last May 2006 and had since recovered 40 percent of my 30 pounds weight loss.

Answer 1

I seriously doubt there have ever been any studies to correlate mold and hyperthyroidism, nor are there ever likely to be- because to put it frankly we already know it's not healthy to eat moldy things. Aside from the fact that your history tells us you are not very particular about what you eat or drink, your hyperthyroidism has nothing whatsoever to do with any of it. It's just one of those disorders that happen, and can even be due to a genetic predisposition on your part. Even if you did manage to convince a lawyer to file a suit for you, your history wouldn't exactly be an arguement in your favor. If anything, it would just confuse matters more. How would anyone be able to say it was specifically due to the moldy bread and not the softdrink, or the nasty amoeba-laden water, or any of the other questionable things you've probably eaten in your 46 years of life. I'm also thinking your time frame to connect the eating of the mold and the hyperthyroidism are a little to distant to be even possible to relate one to another. You might get further in your investigation of how you came to develop the problem by investigating your family medical history. As I said, it does have a genetic component, and you will likely find others in the family have had problems. A clue for you might be to look at old photos, and look for the very large and protruding eyes, on very thin people. That is the classic look for a hyperthyroid sufferer. But the mold on your bread is not the cause, no.

Answer 2

Nop it very doubt-full to be related to your hyperthyroidism. It is usually an over functioning nodule or multiple nodules in your gland. These nodules are totally benign and usually of autoimmune (where your white blood cells recognize body cells as foreign).