Iodine therapy unecessary: B.C. officials

Nothing like a little fear mongering by the media and a complete lack of common sense by the population to make a good news story.

Unbelievable. I guess the next story the media can hype up is about how thousands of British Columbians are suffering from a mysterious illness that causes:
* Abdominal pain
* Coughing
* Delirium
* Diarrhea
* Fever
* Metallic taste in mouth
* Mouth and throat pain
* No urine output
* Seizures
* Shock
* Shortness of breath
* Stupor
* Thirst
* Vomiting

I don't know where you are finding the fear mongering you mentioned by the media, everything I've seen in the news is telling people there is no concern over the radiation from Japan having any ill effects in Canada. So far as I can tell it's just some of the Canadian population over reacting to something they really have no idea about and are just grasping at straws......nothing unusual here.

Just watch the experts that these TV stations and Networks put on. Everyone of them is saying something different but the basic message is the same. It could be armageddon and we're all gonna die, and then they qualify it with a statement about if such and such happens as an after thought.

I have yet to see one of the TV experts say that we won't get a dose large enough to harm us. All they talk about are meltdowns, explosions and horrible consequences for the Japanese and the West Coast of North America.

So when you have all these so called experts spouting their opinions about nuclear armageddon, do you think any of the populous are gonna listen to reason and use a little common sense, especially if the message for calm is comming from the "government" who we all know keeps secrets about things like 2012 and the plague from it's citizens.

Now tell me that's not fear mongering

Hell. I go through most of this in the mornin and the rest of it thru the normal course of a day!

well they have one up on you(pun intended)old feller....no erectile dysfunction.

Just got to master the fine art of 'drilling for oil with a piece of rope'!

I think it's getting more difficult for people to see pictures of explosions in nuclear reactors on a daily basis, and squaring that with the government putting out
messages that contain nothing more than ' it's not a problem '.

http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/pharmacare/k-iodide.html

Background
As a result of the radiological situation at a nuclear power facility in Japan, pharmacists in British Columbia may be asked by customers to dispense potassium iodide (KI).

Recommendation
Please be aware that British Columbia’s Provincial Health Officer and public health officers and health authorities throughout North America are not recommending stockpiling or dispensing potassium iodide in relation to the radiological situation in Japan.

Rationale
KI may be used in radioactive iodine-contamination emergencies (such as a nuclear accidents) to block the thyroid's uptake of radioactive iodine. It is only of benefit in protecting the thyroid against radioactive iodine 131 (I131).

There is extensive monitoring going on in Japan, internationally and along the west coast of North America. Even though there has been a release of radioactive materials in the immediate area of the nuclear plant in Japan which includes I131, it is not a radiological health concern.

In the event that there is a significant release of radioactive iodine 131, the main impact would be on populations within the vicinity of the reactor in Japan.

Modelling of the most likely scenarios suggest that any release into the atmosphere would take several days to reach BC, by which time it would be so dispersed as to be not considered a health risk.

Me neither thanks to the miracle of prescription pharmacuticals.