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Although a lack of dietary iodine is the main cause of goiter in many parts of the world, this is not often the case in countries where iodine is routinely added to table salt and other foods. 1  Graves' disease.2  Goiter can sometimes occur when your thyroid gland produces too much thyroid hormone (hyperthyroidism).lthough a lack of dietary iodine is the main cause of goiter in many parts of the world, this is not often the case in countries where iodine is routinely added to table salt and other foods. 1  Graves' disease.
In normal people this would be an indication of low iodine levels causing the body to hang on to all iodine. Ordinarily the iodine would be used to make thyroid hormone, but in hypothyroidism it collects in the colloid and forms a goitre. Treatment: Thyroxin (thyroid hormone) will inhibit production of TSH and TRH. Hyperthyroid A hyperthyroid goitre is caused by over activation of the thyroid gland. This is usually caused by an autoimmune condition that is stimulating thyroid hormone production in absence of TSH (Grave's Disease).