[Milsurplus] Radium Paint

[J. Forster]

I had a couple of Thallium scans and my core body made a GC scream for a
day or so. FWIW, I peed hot too.

A friend had a theraputic dose of Iodine. She was hot for near a week and
she was told to sleep alone for a while.

-John

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> What's also interesting is to take a reading of someone who has had some
> radioactive dye used for a medical proceedure. It will surprise you. Of
> course the radiation effects are accumulative and the half life of those
> medical radiations are measured in hours and "wear off" after a few days.
> Radium dial paint lasts a looooong time and on the "good" side, the
> particles are readily stopped by dial glass, etc. so you are OK  .....but
> not if you ingest it.
> Kees