RE: Pissing away tritium

["Turpin, Baynard" <baynard.turpin@rfets.gov>]

The way it was presented by a professor I had in the late 60's was you drank
1 beer every hour for a week.  The treatment not only turned over a lot of
body fluids, but made the patient sick of beer.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dick King [SMTP:king%reasoning.com@inet.rfets.gov]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 28, 1999 10:56 AM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	Pissing away tritium
> 
> 
> I'm having a bit of a problem with a short-term beer treatment for tritium
> ingestion.
> 
> A human in round numbers has 50 liters of water.  As i understand it most
> of
> that water is in equilibrium.  Certainly the blood and ordinary soft
> tissues
> such as muscles are in equilibrium, and these cover about 30 liters.
> Therefore, to reduce your tritium load by a factor of e you must turn over
> 50
> liters of water.
> 
> I can reasonably see the RSO telling the patient that he must drink five
> extra
> liters of water per day for the next month, but a short term treatment
> with a
> single six-pack, or even 2 or 3, is unlikely to be effective.
> 
> 
> -dk
> ************************************************************************
> The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
> information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html
************************************************************************
The RADSAFE Frequently Asked Questions list, archives and subscription
information can be accessed at http://www.ehs.uiuc.edu/~rad/radsafe.html