Radiation poisoning

Sources of radiation poisoning

Symptoms of radiation poisoning

Prevention / remedies / cures / treatment for radiation poisoning

References

Sources of radiation poisoning

Radiation poisoning is a health issue for people living in many parts of the world, for those doing certain types of work, those exposed to x-ray machines, mobile phones (particularly 5G cell), wi-fi and those who fly frequently.

Some heavy metals and toxic metals are also a source of radiation poisoning.

The military use of ultra-heavy radioactive metals poses the greatest risk of radiation poisoning to people who make them, handle them, and especially those unfortunates who live in places where they have been fired. Depleted uranium is used in many munitions because it is heavier than lead. Ultra-heavy bullets and shells more easily penetrate armour plating, and when they explode they spray radioactive material in the surrounding area. These armaments are a cheap and easy way of getting rid of nuclear waste produced by conventional old-style nuclear generation power plants, but unfortunately they lay waste to the countries receiving them for many generations.

Other occupations that involve high exposure to radiation include some medical, construction, metal refining and laboratory work.

Pilots and frequent flyers have always been exposed to higher levels of ionising radiation flying ten kilometres above the ground.

Symptoms of radiation poisoning

Here are the symptoms of significant radiation poisoning by time after exposure. Low dose exposure for long periods will cause less overt symptoms.

• Nausea and vomiting within minutes or hours.
• Diarrhoea, headache, fever, red itchy skin within hours.
• Dizziness and disorientation, skin ulceration, blistering, peeling within a week.
• Weakness and fatigue, skin necrosis, hair loss, bloody stools or vomit, poor wound healing, low blood pressure, weak immune system and susceptibility to infections within weeks or a month.
• After months or years, there are a wider variety of symptoms depending on the type of radiation, whether the poisoning is internal or external, the circumstances, the time involved and the age and health of the individual. Cancers may develop, particularly leukaemia. Bone marrow and the gastro-intestinal system are often damaged, causing immune system and gastro-intestinal problems.

Prevention / remedies / cures / treatment for radiation poisoning

• Iodine. Usually taken in the form of potassium iodide or Lugol's iodine. Potassium iodide (KI) pills are the typical prophylactic treatment for radiation poisoning, usually given as a 130 mg dose when there is a severe risk. Another form in which iodine may be taken is as a saturated solution of potassium iodide, two drops for an adult or one drop for adolescents 3 to 18 years old.
  
  Iodine prevents the body from taking up radioactive iodine released in a nuclear accident. Iodine should be taken before and during radiation exposure. A high dose of iodine fulfils the thyroid's and the rest of the body's daily iodine requirements, and as the body is saturated with iodine it will not take up the poisonous radioactive iodine to which it is exposed. If you can, start taking iodine prior to the arrival of the radiation and then continue taking a maintenance dose until the danger has passed.
  
  Iodine is not something that all people can take (young children, pregnant women, those with certain thyroid problems) so it should be done with care and under supervision.
• DMSO. The radioprotective effects of DMSO have been known for many years and is generally attributed to the suppression of DNA damages induced by the indirect action of radiation. The suppression of hydroxyl (OH) radicals induced by ionizing radiation was thought to be the main mechanism.(3)
• Miso. Daily consumption of miso soup. After the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of world war II, those Japanese people who continued with their daily use of traditional miso soup were significantly protected from the radiation that killed others close to them, or plagued them with cancers and other diseases. Miso seems to contain enzymes which help with protection from radiation and heavy metal removal and it suppresses tumours. (2)
  
  For best results do not cook the miso. Stir it into warm water, or simply add it to a dressing or cooled sauce.
• Seaweeds. Harvested before Fukushima, or from the southern hemisphere of the world. Seaweeds are such efficient accumulators of radiation that that those that grow in the Pacific Ocean are likely already contaminated, especially those near Japan.
  
  Dulse is an excellent seaweed to use, though you can use other seaweeds. Modifilan and other seaweed extracts are also effective.
• Vitamin C. High dose oral vitamin C, or taken intravenously.
• Pectin is a soluble dietary fibre. Apples are a rich source of pectin. Sunflower seeds and citrus fruits also contain significant quantities. You can buy pectin as a dry powder, it is often used as a setting agent when making jam. Apple pectin becomes gelatinous ( jelly-like) when wet. Pectin, particularly apple pectin, is a good colon cleanser. After you eat it, it forms a sticky gel that tends to bind with heavy metals and radioactive metals before passing through your body.
  
  Apple pectin breaks down into short chain fatty acids, providing food for the good bacteria in your digestive tract (pre-biotic benefits).
  
  Apple pectin was used extensively after the Chernobyl nuclear plant meltdown in 1986, with a great deal of success. A study (1) measured the radiation levels of children after this disaster, and then a month later after they were given apple pectin in their diets. At the end of the trial 137Cs cesium levels in the children who were given apple pectin were reduced by 62% compared to children who had received a placebo, whose radiation levels reduced by 13.9%.
• Citrus bioflavonoids and citrus pectin.
• Magnetic clay bath. Certain healing clays have a strong attraction to heavy metals and radioactive elements. A twenty minute hot soak in a tub of water mixed with a cup or more of magnetic clay draws the toxins out through the opened pores of your skin.
  Sea salt is an alternative, though much less effective than magnetic clay. Soak your body in a sea salt (not supermarket table salt) bath for at least 20-30 minutes, every day for three weeks or every second day for six weeks. Use half a cup of sea salt in a warm bath. If you want, you can also add half a cup of baking soda to the same bath.
• Kombucha.
• Methylene blue.
• Holy basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum). Take a daily drink of holy basil in warm water or milk. It is useful for cellular cleansing, and also helps the lungs and skin. Fresh coriander (cilantro) may also have a similar effect.
• Punarnava mandur. This contains the Ayurvedic herb Spreading Hogweed - Boerhaavia diffusa.
• Green powders and blue-green algae.

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References

1. Nesterenko VB, Nesterenko AV, Babenko VI, Yerkovich TV, Babenko IV. Reducing the 137Cs-load in the organism of "Chernobyl" children with apple-pectin. Swiss Med Wkly. 2004 Jan 10;134(1-2):24-7.

2. Hiromitsu Watanabe. Beneficial Biological Effects of Miso with Reference to Radiation Injury, Cancer and Hypertension. J Toxicol Pathol. 2013 Jun; 26(2): 91-103. Published online 2013 Jul 10. doi: 10.1293/tox.26.91.

3. Genro Kashino, Yong Liu, Minoru Suzuki, Shin-Ichiro Masunaga, Yuko Kinashi, Koji Ono, Keizo Tano, Masami Watanabe. An Alternative Mechanism for Radioprotection by Dimethyl Sulfoxide; Possible Facilitation of DNA Double-strand Break Repair. J. Radiat. Res., 51, 733-740 (2010).