Why are people rushing to buy iodine pills? Demand grows with nuclear fears.
“Our body, especially our thyroid gland, is very greedy for iodine,” Vinocur said. It’s needed to produce the hormones that regulate the body’s energy and metabolism, theIodine will enter your body if it’s in the air that you breathe. But during a nuclear explosion, radioactive iodine is released, which will also be absorbed by the body.
That’s where iodine tablets come in. They can saturate or fill up the thyroid, preventing radioactive iodine from getting in.“If you take large doses of iodine in the form of potassium iodide… you’ll kind of satisfy your thyroid’s hunger to absorb iodine,” she noted. “You’ve already got enough iodine in there so that it doesn’t take in more. It prevents you from absorbing once you’re exposed.”
It’s best to take the potassium iodide 6 to 12 hours before exposure to radioactive iodine, but it also works if used within 3 to 4 hours of exposure — the sooner you take it, the more time the thyroid has to fill up with the normal iodine. The protection from the recommended dosage lasts for about 24 hours. You have to keep taking it until the risk no longer exists.
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