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How Does Potassium Iodide work?
The thyroid is the only part of the body that absorbs and stores iodine. By taking potassium iodide prior to exposure of radioactive iodine, your thyroid will become saturated with safe, stable iodine. This will prevent your thyroid's absorption of any additional iodine (radioactive or not) long enough for the radioactive iodine inhaled or ingested to be safely dispersed through the kidneys. Outcome: No Thyroid Cancer.
Why should you have Potassium Iodide on hand?
Storing of potassium iodide (KI) is highly recommended by health officials worldwide to prevent thyroid cancer when exposed to radioactive iodine. Radioactive iodine is the predominant radioisotope released from a nuclear reactor accident or detonation of a nuclear weapon and can travel thousands of miles downwind.
Protect Your Thyroid
In 1982, the US FDA approved potassium iodide to protect thyroid glands from radioactive iodine involving accidents or fission emergencies. In an accidental event or attack on a nuclear power plant, or in nuclear bomb fallout, volatile fission product radionuclides may be released. If ingested 131I is one of the most common products and is particularly dangerous to the thyroid gland because it may lead to thyroid cancer. By filling the body with a source of stable iodide prior to exposure, inhaled or ingested 131I tends to be excreted, which prevents radioiodine uptake by the thyroid.
Who is most at risk?
Because pregnant women and children have growing thyroids which are more active and likely to absorb radiation they are the most at risk. However, it is important to remember that no one is immune to radiation.
Recommended Dosage:
Adults take 2 tablets per day, children 3 to 18 years take 1 tablet per day, children less than 3 years of age consult a physician.
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