Potassium iodide: mythology in a bottle?
"There are a lot of mythology about the use of potassium iodide as a protection against radiation poisoning", said Dr. Irwin Redlener, a pediatrician and disaster preparation specialist at Columbia University.
Dr. Redlener continued by saying that this drug is limited to the effects of radiation, and even then only against thyroid cancer is more common among children.
Be that as may, diagnosed cases of thyroid cancer is very common after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 the rector, of which more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer were diagnosed among children who have been exposed to radiation levels from the event.
Although the work to develop a "vaccine" against the so-called radiation disease is underway in places like Israel Weizmann Institute, the results so far are still not convincing. The best way to overcome the effects of radiation, is still to understand the different types of radiation that is harmful to humans, especially those strontinium like 90 (which found its way into the bone, especially bone marrow, causing cancer).
Radiation levels are also very important to monitor, especially for those located closer to the source of radiation.
Being educated as what the various types and levels of radiation, and what the effects on the body is a good idea.
In the short term, avoiding contact with radiation is the best case scenario. Hopefully, the research for radiation sickness serum made by people like Dr. Andrei Gudkov, it will eventually bear fruit. Dr. Gudkov was chief of staff at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in New York as well as a researcher at the Cleveland-Bio Labs, a branch of the Cleveland Medical Institute in the United States.
As for what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, it is definitely a race against time.
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