Re: Hundreds Get Radiation Pills

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

Carol,

My goodness. The situation may be hopeless.

How about AsI, or PbI. Enough of it will absolutely assure that the

recipient will not get thyroid cancer ;-)      Jerry





> 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





> 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.





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