... besides which, there are better forms of iodine than the KI tablets if all you want is a maintenance dose. The fraction of a drop of the liquid iodine I take or the iodine in the seaweed snacks I'm fond of, or even those awful tasting brown seaweed chewables are much preferable to me. This non-experience has taught me the dose' I need from the liquid and chewables; as for the snacks I have no idea, that's just extra I suppose.