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To: swampfoxniner

Okay, so potassium iodide is cheap and effective. Cool. What about iodine and kelp tablets from every grocery store? Aren’t those effectively the same thing?


4 posted on 08/09/2010 1:20:24 PM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pin up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: ConservativeMind
Concentrations are probably too low. Same with iodized salt. You'll get salt poisoning before you get enough KI.

KI is a thyroid blocker and is only good if you are exposed to early fallout from a nuclear detonation or accident involving fresh nuclear fuel in a reactor (the latter is very improbable). Any kind of release from decayed fuel will not have a significant radioiodine source term.

Use KI like any dietary supplement. The severe allergic reaction rate from literature I've reviewed ranged from 0.5 to 2 per million people. Pretty low, but if it were me I'd check with my family doctor first before considering stocking it.

5 posted on 08/09/2010 1:32:54 PM PDT by chimera
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