Hi girls,
I have been taking elevit for the past 12 months and a friend just told me elevit doesn't contain iodine which is needed for brain development. So today I went to the chemist to get an iodine supp which they said i couldn't get, that they only had a blackmores folate and iodine mix. The pharmacist there assured me that even though elevit has 800 mcg and the blackmores mix has 500 mcg of folate it wouldn't be too much folate as you can have 5mg per day, so she said! Had a quick google and read something about the FDA saying 1000 mcg max. If I took both tabs I'd be having 1300 mcg a day. Should I return the tabs? How much folate do you girls take? Is anyone taking elevit now who has found an iodine supp or a way to get enough iodine? I could be preg now, testing in a week and want to get onto the iodine asap!!!
Thanks ladies
xox
I got told the exact same thing today! To take the other supplement which has folate and iodine in it on top of elevit. Which would mean im taking 1300 mcg per day and the pharmacist said that is ok as ok to take up to 5mg per day - but then on his screen it said precaution - shouldnt take over 1000 mcg per day. So im not sure if 1300 mcg is too much or perfectly fine. The pharmacist said to ask my GP.

My normal GP said just take folate (bit blase if you ask me!). But i took elevit. Saw a different GP recently and she was all over the supplements and told me to switch to blackmores since it has fish oil and iodine, both of which are recommended. But i really like taking elevit, i have good energy on it and it doesnt make me feel sick. Most multis do. I take a fish oil i like too. So i dont know if i should get this folate/iodine tab from blackmore or just ditch elevit and take blackmore pregnancy??!!

Where can i get this iodine salt from? never noticed it before. Ive never like blackmores as a company for some reason...