Re: Societies issue primer on radiological terrorism threats:Kearny practicalities

["Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>]

p 113, "All members of families with a supply of potassium iodide could

safely eat a normal diet long before those without it could do so." and

p114, p115 "Ways to obtain [KI] for prophylactic use - By prescription -

Without prescription - Practical expedient ways to prepare and take -

Preparing [KI] tablets to give to infants and small children - Warnings -",

etc.



Dr Orient once summarized for a Civil Defense group the {more important}

general protection as (approx), "GET MASS BETWEEN YOU AND EXCESS RADIATION."



I compared the excellent new Primer for Professionals and Kearney's NWSS

only for

I 131. Both benefit professionals, like HPs in Radsafe.



Howard Long



----- Original Message ----- 

From: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>

To: "David V. Becker" <dvb2001@MED.CORNELL.EDU>

Cc: "Jane Orient" <jorient@MINDSPRING.COM>; "'Howard Long'"

<hflong@pacbell.net>; "'radsafe'" <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>; "David V.

Becker" <dvb2001@MED.CORNELL.EDU>; "Al-Nabulsi, Isaf" <ialnabul@nas.edu>

Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 5:51 AM

Subject: Re: Societies issue primer on radiological terrorism threats:Kearny

practicalities





> I have a copy of Kearny's "Nuclear War Survival

> Skills."  Where does he recommend the use of KI?

>

> > --- Howard Long <hflong@pacbell.net> wrote:

> > > Radsafers and DDP,

> > > My quick review of I 131 response in the

> > Primer  below, so helpfully

> > referenced by John J, then comparing it with

> > Kearny's in his Nuclear War Survival Skills

> > (from www.oism.org) suggests that KI ss 4  drops/d  or  one 130 mgm

tab/d to

> > all who may be exposed when there is a nuclear  attack, is needed while

you

> > health physicists are determining the  pCuries/m3  in  the air.

> >

> > Howard Long

>

>

>

> =====

> +++++++++++++++++++

> ""A fanatic is one who cannot change his mind and won't change the

subject."  Winston Churchill

>

> -- John

> John Jacobus, MS

> Certified Health Physicist

> e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com

> http://www.vanderbilt.edu/radsafe/

>





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