Health and Wisdom Potassium Iodide USP Grade 26 Grams

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Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
ASIN: B004SNVN7O
UPC: 898488002704

By : Health and Wisdom
Price : $18.00

Product Description

What is Potassium Iodide (KI)? Potassium iodide (also known as KI) is a salt of stable (not radioactive) iodine. Stable iodine is an significant chemical necessary by the physique to make thyroid hormones. Most of the stable iodine in our bodies comes from the food we consume. KI is stable iodine in a medicine form. This truth sheet from the Centers for Disease Manage and Prevention (CDC) offers you some basic facts about KI. It explains what you really should consider about before you or a loved ones member takes KI. What does KI do? Following a radiological or nuclear event, radioactive iodine may be released into the air and then be breathed into the lungs. Radioactive iodine might also contaminate the neighborhood food provide and get into the body through food or via drink. When radioactive materials get into the physique by means of breathing, consuming, or drinking, we say that "internal contamination" has occurred. In the case of internal contamination with radioactive iodine, the thyroid gland rapidly absorbs this chemical. Radioactive iodine absorbed by the thyroid can then injure the gland. Considering that non-radioactive KI acts to block radioactive iodine from being taken into the thyroid gland, it can support safeguard this gland from injury.