In a nuclear fallout scenario where heavy exposure to radioactive Iodide is a serious threat, these doses will likely be recommended to be taken every 24 hours, but this medication is to be taken as sparingly as possible due to its potential side effects. Adult sized children who weigh 150 pounds or greater should take the full adult dose of 130mg daily.

Children who are three years to eighteen years of age should take half a tablet daily, or 65mg. Children one month to three years in age should be given 32mg, or one-fourth of a tablet daily. Newborns less than one-month-old should be administered about one-eighth of a tablet or 16mg daily. Each packet has 14 tablets, equaling 14 adult doses (daily). These tablets are packaged nicely and come at an affordable cost. The idea is to occupy all the iodine receptors in your system with safe, non-radioactive Iodide so the dangerous forms of iodide present during and after nuclear fallout have “no space” to become absorbed in your thyroid. The way these precautionary tablets work is that they essentially “fill up”, or saturate your thyroid with stable, non-harmful Iodide so any radioactive Iodide present will be processed and safely excreted by your kidneys. Your thyroid will take in and store this dangerous form of iodine if inhaled or ingested – greatly increasing your chances of thyroid cancer.

Radioactive Iodine is probably the most common radionuclide that could be present following nuclear fallout. It will be key to your present and long term health in a nuclear fallout scenario to intake as little radioactivity as possible.

Of course, every nuclear fallout kit needs to include Potassium Iodide tablets.īeing prepared in the event of a nuclear disaster starts with keeping your biology safe.

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