PLAN B if Meltdown takes place before Joe J sends your tablets

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday March 08, 2002 19:34 by ministry of disasters

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Plan "B" for anyone caught without KI or KIO3 tablets in a nuclear emergency...

Plan "B" for anyone caught without KI or KIO3 tablets in a nuclear emergency...
Few realize that there are viable alternatives to achieve a thyroid-blocking dose of iodine in a nuclear emergency when KI or KIO3 tablets are in short supply or not readily available at all. The following should be of interest to everyone, even those who have already secured a personal family supply of KI or KIO3 tablets, as these Plan "B" alternatives can be shared far and wide with extended family, friends, neighbors and your community-at-large. Especially helpful, too, to get this information out to your local doctors, pharmacists and community leaders. These two alternatives could protect many thousands more than all the KI and KIO3 tablets currently available anywhere.

#1 - Anyone can buy, without restriction, Potassium Iodide USP at a local chemical supply house (and even some larger photo supply outlets) and readily mix up their own Potassium Iodide (KI) solution that is every bit as effective as the tablets. Also, we were recently reminded by a science teacher, that every town in America likely has a ready and waiting supply of KI sitting in their high school science labs that could protect hundreds of their students and local residents! A single 500 gram bottle of KI, now already on many of their shelves, could provide 3,846 adult daily doses or 7,692 child (age 3-12) thyroid-blocking doses! Community leaders need to pull together their resourceful science teachers, local pharmacists and doctors to fully explore the resources already at hand and available for any future nuclear emergency that might befall their locale. You might could be responsible for saving many in your community from future thyroid cancer by simply bringing this to the attention of your local officials, science teachers, pharmacists and doctors!

There are two kinds of Potassium Iodide (KI) solutions that can be made. Saturated and anything less than saturated and both of these two simple formulas and dosing recommendations, along with more details, are at the www.ki4u.com Potassium Iodide Anti-Radiation Pill FAQ at the Q&A section entitled: How Do You Make a Potassium Iodide (KI) Solution?

#2 - It is poisonous to ingest (drink/swallow) elemental iodine, iodine tablets (widely sold for water purification), tincture of iodine, or Povidone-iodine solutions (like the Betadine® brand solution) and it is also both ineffective for thyroid-blocking while being very dangerous, perhaps even fatal.

However, there has been some interesting research, though, with both humans and dogs into topically (on the skin) applied Povidone-Iodine (10%) solution (such as Betadine® or Povidex® solutions), and also with tincture of iodine, to test the absorption rates of iodine directly, and safely, through the skin.

According to research by Health Physicist Ken Miller, Hershey Medical Center, using 24 healthy adult male subjects, an adult could get a blocking dose of stable iodine by painting 8 ml of a 2 percent tincture of Iodine on the abdomen or forearm approximately 2 hours prior to I-131 contamination. The abstract of his study titled "Effectiveness of Skin Absorption of Tincture of I in Blocking Radioiodine from the Human Thyroid Gland" from Health Physics, June 1989, Vol. 56, No. 6, pages 911-914, states:

"Although there were large variations within each subject group in regard to serum-I levels and thyroid uptakes, the increase in serum-I concentration after topical-I application was effective in reducing the thyroid uptake of I131. The authors conclude that in the absence of KI, most humans would benefit from topical application of tincture of-I, and that in some the effectiveness would equal that of oral KI."
More details (and links to this research) on these topical applications can be found at the www.ki4u.com Potassium Iodide Anti-Radiation Pill FAQ at the Q&A section entitled: Is Iodized Salt, Tincture of Iodine, Water Purification Tabs, or other Iodine Sources Effective?

Again, here too, you might could be responsible for saving many in your community from future thyroid cancer by simply bringing this research to the attention of your friends, neighbors, relatives, local officials, pharmacists and doctors!

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Remember, too, as often mentioned on the FAQ, touch bases with your personal physician now to assure that there isn't any reason you, or your children, shouldn't take KI or KIO3 in a future nuclear emergency. (An iodine allergy is the usual disqualifying condition, but only your doctor knows your full medical history and medications to make that determination.) Asking them now, before any emergency would likely make that impossible to do so, is just another part of your prudent preparations here.

Shane Connor