You receive an emergency alert: "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL." What do you do? How do you think your neighborhood will react? What memes be on Lemmy?
You receive an emergency alert: "BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL." What do you do? How do you think your neighborhood will react? What memes be on Lemmy?
Like this:
But replace "Hawaii" with your location.
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I'm going to the drug store to buy them out of iodine. If I survive, probably going to need it.
And stay a smoothskin? You're passing on a once-in-a-lifetime chance of becoming a ghoul.
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Bro, just grab the stuff before others take it. There aint laws when missiles by flying.
"buy"
Pretty sure they’re not at the local store anyway. I bought some last year online
Iodine is readily available at every drug store in liquid form. It's also readily absorbed through the skin. Just ask people who were around before salt was iodized. Parents used to rub it on the soles of their kids feet.
Iodine is readily available at every drug store in liquid form.
You're referring to a solution of elemental iodine in water of about 5% (or more likely, iodine-povidone, as the iodine alone doesn't like being dissolved in water) that is used for disinfection
The iodide (IDE, not INE) tablets, where the iodine is in it's ionized form (I- , usually with potassium as the cation K+) are what you want for radiation treatment, you take them orally and the dosage is in the milligrams, much lower then the iodine solutions.
The solution also doesn't absorb at all through the skin, but you don't see the iodine anymore because it vaporizes rather quickly
Thank you. You do absorb iodine through skin though. It's been done for a long time. It may not be useful for radiation as you say but it does indeed absorb cutaneously and is available to the body. It was used for iodine supplement before salt was iodized.
Just searched for potassium iodide (which is what your supposed to take for radiation) at CVS and nope
Yes, orally that's what you take.
Ah I understand now TIL