Iodine allergy... alternate to KI???
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For those allergic to iodine, they should try and minimize their exposure to radioactive iodine in other ways, such as being first to evacuate or trying to acquire and use a gas mask with the specialized filter for radioactive iodine and being especially careful about later avoiding foods possibly contaminated with it.
Couple facts to keep in mind, though, many who were allergic to iodine downwind of Chernobyl took KI anyways and endured the rash, etc. cause they saw that as less of a risk than thyroid cancer, but anaphylactic shock should not ever be risked without a doctor's personal instruction and care to treat it ready at hand.
Also, keep in mind that, for anybody much over the age of 40 the odds of thyroid cancer fully expressing itself in their lifetimes is much lower than younger people and especially children. So, if much over 40 and allergic to iodine, you should be less eager to risk an allergic reaction by taking KI (potassium iodide) or KIO3 (potassium iodate).
And, lastly, if there's a lot of radioactive iodine around that you'll be ingesting and/or inhaling, and you are allergic to iodine, then you are going to be at risk to have an allergic reaction anyways just from that radioactive iodine. So, choice might come down to accepting risk of allergic reaction either way, so it might be better to do it with KI or KIO3 and not also have additional risk of later thyroid cancer, too.
BUT, ANY DECISION TO USE KI or KIO3 BY ANYONE ALLERGIC TO IODINE SHOULD ONLY BE MADE BY YOUR PERSONAL PHYSICIAN AND WITH ASSETS TO TREAT ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK CLOSE AT HAND. TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR NOW, WELL BEFORE ANY NUCLEAR EMERGENCY, TO DETERMINE BEST COURSE OF ACTION FOR IF/WHEN NEEDED IN THE FUTURE.
BTW, everybody acquiring KI or KIO3, allergic to iodine or not, should ask their doctor now if there is any reason at all that anybody in their household should not use KI or KIO3 if/when needed. There are some few medical conditions and medications that KI or KIO3 could be a complication of and you need to get your doctors assurance now that there won't be any problems before any nuclear emergency makes doing so impossible. That's just another part of your prudent preparations, especially if you are thinking ahead enough to have acquired KI or KIO3 to begin with.
More info about KI and KIO3 and thyroid cancer from radioactive iodine here...
www.ki4u.com
- Shane
Couple facts to keep in mind, though, many who were allergic to iodine downwind of Chernobyl took KI anyways and endured the rash, etc. cause they saw that as less of a risk than thyroid cancer, but anaphylactic shock should not ever be risked without a doctor's personal instruction and care to treat it ready at hand.
Also, keep in mind that, for anybody much over the age of 40 the odds of thyroid cancer fully expressing itself in their lifetimes is much lower than younger people and especially children. So, if much over 40 and allergic to iodine, you should be less eager to risk an allergic reaction by taking KI (potassium iodide) or KIO3 (potassium iodate).
And, lastly, if there's a lot of radioactive iodine around that you'll be ingesting and/or inhaling, and you are allergic to iodine, then you are going to be at risk to have an allergic reaction anyways just from that radioactive iodine. So, choice might come down to accepting risk of allergic reaction either way, so it might be better to do it with KI or KIO3 and not also have additional risk of later thyroid cancer, too.
BUT, ANY DECISION TO USE KI or KIO3 BY ANYONE ALLERGIC TO IODINE SHOULD ONLY BE MADE BY YOUR PERSONAL PHYSICIAN AND WITH ASSETS TO TREAT ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK CLOSE AT HAND. TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR NOW, WELL BEFORE ANY NUCLEAR EMERGENCY, TO DETERMINE BEST COURSE OF ACTION FOR IF/WHEN NEEDED IN THE FUTURE.
BTW, everybody acquiring KI or KIO3, allergic to iodine or not, should ask their doctor now if there is any reason at all that anybody in their household should not use KI or KIO3 if/when needed. There are some few medical conditions and medications that KI or KIO3 could be a complication of and you need to get your doctors assurance now that there won't be any problems before any nuclear emergency makes doing so impossible. That's just another part of your prudent preparations, especially if you are thinking ahead enough to have acquired KI or KIO3 to begin with.
More info about KI and KIO3 and thyroid cancer from radioactive iodine here...
www.ki4u.com
- Shane
My thinking was the idea that about the only way to discover an allergy to iodine would be to eat food that contained it as it's very rarely used topically anymore except as a prep procedure for surgery, so I figured since kelp is very high in iodine that probably would set it off for sure.
Folks with an iodine allergy would stil be at risk of a reaction from using it, of course, but the real challenge with utilizing kelp tablets is how many you'd need to take daily to be equivalent to the 100mgs of elemental iodine you get in the daily adult dose of 130mgs of KI or 170mgs of KIO3.Mushroom said:
We'd looked at Solgar brand kelp tablets and did the math where, for example, each tablet contains only a tiny 225 MICROgrams of iodine! Fortunately, it is also available in a 1000 tablet bottle, unfortunately though, you'd need to be swallowing about 442 of them per day to get the thyroid blocking effect of KI or KIO3... and then not wander too far from a bathroom!
A couple kelp tablets per day are great for the normal small daily iodine nutritional needs, but it is not a viable option for the much larger amount of iodine required for saturating the thyroid for effective thyroid-blocking against radioactive iodine in a nuclear emergency.
- Shane
I don't think coating the tablets would do anything nor would having a time release additive, the iodine still goes directly to and builds up in the thyroid. Asprin sensitivity is mainly in the digestive tract so time release will mitigate the dosing effect on the stomach mucosa. Time releasing iodine won't do much as the total dose amount would still build up in the thyroid. Better get some EpiPens ASAP and know how to use them.