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Potassium iodide

Submitted by Norman Yarvin on Wed, 2011-07-20 13:02
Back when the Fukushima reactors started blowing up, I advised that although potassium iodide was a good thing to have around, on general principles, one shouldn't rush out and pay panic prices for it. Well, now, with LEF putting their potassium iodide on "clearance sale", it's safe to say the panic is over. If sealed well, the stuff lasts basically forever, so this seems like a decent time to stock up.

http://www.lef.org/Vitamins-Supplements/Item00577/Potassium-Iodide.html

I haven't shopped around, though. LEF tends to be a good supplier, in terms of the product actually containing what it's advertised to contain; but even relative to their sales, one might find better prices elsewhere.

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Submitted by MacKintosh on Wed, 2011-07-20 18:22.
;-) Thanks, Norman.

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Submitted by Homina on Thu, 2011-07-21 12:11.

What is it we should use Potasium Iodide for?

 

 

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Submitted by Norman Yarvin on Thu, 2011-07-21 15:57.
It's for nuclear emergencies. You basically put it away somewhere and forget about it. Then when a reactor upwind of you blows up, or someone detonates a nuclear bomb upwind of you, you try frantically to remember where you stashed the pills. Then if you find them, you eat one pill a day, and give other pills to anyone you care about. (The official advice is to wait and listen to the recommendations of public health authorities. Which is a good idea if the nuclear incident is far away, but not such a good idea if it's very close or if the public health authorities just got nuked themselves.)

The idea is to saturate your body with iodine, so that it rejects the iodine-131 that will be in the air. Iodine-131 is a short-lived (8 days half-life), intensely radioactive substance that goes to the thyroid and nukes it.

The pills sold for radioprotection contain a lot more iodine than the pills sold for everyday iodine supplementation. The one dose is measured in milligrams, the other in micrograms.

Submitted by MSmom on Thu, 2011-07-21 20:46.

It sure can't hurt to get some. I live w/in 50 miles of the Perry Nuclear Plant, which was  deliberately constructed  by CEI on a fault line in Lake Erie. ("Pay no attention to those protestors who... only want to reduce our profits.") Like Japan until its "big one," NE Ohio has not had its 9 on the seismic scale ..... yet.

Thank you, Norman

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