Iodine therapy (4/15)

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The isolation of patients during Iodine 131 therapy.
(Part 4 of 15)

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[jhamien920]

Thank this is very informative and will be very useful to me.

[fireicer]

fk hell on earth iodine 131 actually causes thyroid cancer what and how on earth can giving a patient a know carcinogenic actually cure anything. Thats like saying hey you have a gum infection smoke more cigarettes lol. Does anyone know where the scientific paper on this process is for reading up on as this sounds so very very wrong

[BeatVu]

i had this done 4 days ago

[mproductionsmusik]

If you trust that treatment your are insane..

[lightoffuturedays]

Brutal and archaic.

[livecountry100]

this is so boring!!!!!!! i was looking for people screeming over using iodine to get infection out of scratches

[mindrapeart]

@muslikid the radiation just kills you.

[celshad]

are the glass windows in this special room are leaded?

[mouster333]

Because thyroid tissue is extremely sensitive to iodine- it absorbs it all. That is why we have iodized salt- to give us iodine- which helps us regulate our metabolism. Our thyroid uses iodine. They give us radioactive iodine so that when it is absorbed by whatever thyroid tissue is left, the tissue will be given a heavy dose of radiation, which will kill the thyroid tissue and nothing else (because the surrounding tissues don't absorb the iodine).

[muslikid]

Just out of interest, Does anyone know why how the pill can treat thyroid cancer if its in the neck but the pill goes to your stomach when swallowed????????