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Re: Hundreds Get Radiation Pills
At 01:49 PM 9/9/02 -0700, Jerry Cohen wrote:
>Good point! Maybe we should switch to NaI. Oops, I forgot about hypertension
>How about Lithium Iodide?-- it might protect us against radiation, and keep
>us from worrying about it.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS) <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov>
>To: 'RadSafe' <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
>Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 9:29 AM
>Subject: RE: Hundreds Get Radiation Pills
>
>
> > Does anyone know if the public has been told that KI pills contain K-40?
> >
> > -- John
> > John Jacobus, MS
> > Certified Health Physicist
> > 3050 Traymore Lane
> > Bowie, MD 20715-2024
> >
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Dear Radsafers:
NaI is not FDA-approved, and you can't buy it from a manufacturer as a
drug. A doc can write a prescription to a pharmacist to make up pills, but
FDA has threatened to try to shut him down (even though it's legal for a
pharmacist to do so). Li not only has antipsychotic properties, but it has
antithyroid properties and can cause hypothyroidism.
So, KI it is. What is the absorbed dose from 130 mg KI to an adult and 65
mg to an infant?
Ciao, Carol
Carol S. Marcus, Ph.D., M.D.
<csmarcus@ucla.edu>
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