Panic leads to local rush for anti-radiation drugs

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Panic over radiation fears from the Japanese nuclear plant crisis resulted in every pharmacy in Mountain Home being flooded with calls last week inquiring about the availability of potassium iodide tablets.

The tablets are used to overload the body's normal iodine content so that it won't accept additional, radioactive isotopes of iodine, one of the byproducts of the nuclear meltdown at the Japanese plants.

State and federal health officials said there is no cause for alarm for the west coast or any other part of the United States to receive any radioactive fallout from Japan.

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Village Idiot......

-- Posted by ID=Home on Thu, Mar 24, 2011, at 10:22 AM
Here you go worrie wart.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/23/colorado.oregon.radiation/index.html

-- Posted by shockwave on Thu, Mar 24, 2011, at 10:36 AM
Well, Potasium Iodide will do no good for those without Thyroid Function! Widespread panic for nothing. You get more 100 times more radiation from 1 chest X-ray.

-- Posted by Reserve ID on Thu, Mar 24, 2011, at 11:37 AM

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