A lesson from Chernobyl is that you don't wait till an accident to buy iodine. Potassium-iodide is dirt cheap. There is no reason that everyone shouldn't own a small bottle.
Thyroid cancer was the number one killer from Chernobyl. A few rubles worth of K-I could have prevented nearly all of those cases.
Regular use of iodized salt is also a big help. It will also make your kids smarter [nih.gov].
Iodine pills can be taken if there is accident in fission reactor, or a nuclear bomb detonated as ground burst, because iodine-131 is one of the fission products and the thyroid absorbs it.
BUT
it's useless as tits on a bull for other rad sources and rad exposure.
Unless used to protect against a very specific radiation threat it can also be dangerous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
There is reason for caution with prescribing the ingestion of high doses of potassium iodide and iodate, as their unnecessary use can cause conditions such as the Jod-Basedow phenomena, trigger and/or worsen hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, and then cause temporary or even permanent thyroid conditions.
The overblown fear of anything radioactive is causing people to act in ways that are far more harmful than the radiation itself. Such as the evacuations after Fukushima. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/w... [nbcnews.com]
Some 300,000 people evacuated their homes in the prefecture after the disaster caused multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to Red Cross figures.
A survey by popular Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun said Monday that deaths relating to this displacement â" around 1,600 â" have surpassed the number killed in the region in the original disaster.
Close to 16,000 people were killed across Japan as a direct result of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. According to the Mainichi report, 1,599 of these deaths were in the Fukushima Prefecture.
Causes of death in the aftermath have included âoefatigueâ due to conditions in evacuation centers, exhaustion from relocating, and illness resulting from hospital closures. The survey also said a number of suicides had been attributed to the ordeal.
Every year I get a postcard in the mail describing to me the evacuation procedure should there be a radiation threat from the nearby nuclear power plant. Seeing how many people died in
We'll find out how bad this really is, when the neighboring countries start releasing their measure radiation numbers.
Just like with Chernobyl 1.0.
A lesson from Chernobyl is that you don't wait till an accident to buy iodine. Potassium-iodide is dirt cheap. There is no reason that everyone shouldn't own a small bottle.
Thyroid cancer was the number one killer from Chernobyl. A few rubles worth of K-I could have prevented nearly all of those cases.
Regular use of iodized salt is also a big help. It will also make your kids smarter [nih.gov].
How adding iodine to salt boosted Americans' IQ [discovermagazine.com]
on iodized vodka.
Iodine pills can be taken if there is accident in fission reactor, or a nuclear bomb detonated as ground burst, because iodine-131 is one of the fission products and the thyroid absorbs it.
BUT
it's useless as tits on a bull for other rad sources and rad exposure.
Unless used to protect against a very specific radiation threat it can also be dangerous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
There is reason for caution with prescribing the ingestion of high doses of potassium iodide and iodate, as their unnecessary use can cause conditions such as the Jod-Basedow phenomena, trigger and/or worsen hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism, and then cause temporary or even permanent thyroid conditions.
The overblown fear of anything radioactive is causing people to act in ways that are far more harmful than the radiation itself. Such as the evacuations after Fukushima.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/w... [nbcnews.com]
Some 300,000 people evacuated their homes in the prefecture after the disaster caused multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to Red Cross figures.
A survey by popular Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun said Monday that deaths relating to this displacement â" around 1,600 â" have surpassed the number killed in the region in the original disaster.
Close to 16,000 people were killed across Japan as a direct result of the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. According to the Mainichi report, 1,599 of these deaths were in the Fukushima Prefecture.
Causes of death in the aftermath have included âoefatigueâ due to conditions in evacuation centers, exhaustion from relocating, and illness resulting from hospital closures. The survey also said a number of suicides had been attributed to the ordeal.
Every year I get a postcard in the mail describing to me the evacuation procedure should there be a radiation threat from the nearby nuclear power plant. Seeing how many people died in