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next steps: Potassium Iodide tablets step after that: Prussian blue pills
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I feel like that's where you call the NRC or something before Mr. Radon ends up like David Hahn.
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Iodide tablets and chelation or ion affinity treatments are fallout treatment specific. Not gonna do anything for radon. Radon treatment is GTFO, get it the gently caress out while you're gone, and tell your GP about your newly found elevated lung cancer risk for long term monitoring. The lessor probably has clauses that will evict them but also OP either gonna get evicted too or moved to another unit out of caution or left to wallow in it out of neglect.
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Radon just goes hog wild ruining the soft tissue in and around your lungs. It'd be a lot less dangerous if it wasn't a nice, breathable noble gas.
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Mustached Demon posted:Radon just goes hog wild ruining the soft tissue in and around your lungs. It'd be a lot less dangerous if it wasn't a nice, breathable noble gas. At least the fact that it's a noble gas means it doesn't have any biological activity and is gone as soon as you breathe it out.
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Phanatic posted:At least the fact that it's a noble gas means it doesn't have any biological activity and is gone as soon as you breathe it out. It has that whole being much heavier than air problem though, remember to do a handstand for a few minutes.
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Sep 1, 2022 15:38
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Midjack posted:It has that whole being much heavier than air problem though, remember to do a handstand for a few minutes. Radon's atomic weight also helps prevent it from accumulating too much, except in very poorly ventilated spaces or gravity traps
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It honestly sounds like the 19-year-old just has an irradiation fetish.
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Are we talking about radon or radium here? Radium is the one your body mistakes for calcium.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Are we talking about radon or radium here? radium was also mistaken for a competent website developer at one point 
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Phanatic posted:At least the fact that it's a noble gas means it doesn't have any biological activity and is gone as soon as you breathe it out. Unlike, say, a short-lived iodine daughter product associated with nuclear fission. That thing's going right to your thyroid.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Are we talking about radon or radium here? I remember radon in basements being a scare when I was a kid in the 80s.
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Midjack posted:I remember radon in basements being a scare when I was a kid in the 80s. I mean, that's a real issue, lots of the eastern US has enough uranium in the soil for poorly-ventilated basements for radon to be a concern, and inspections for it when you buy a house are pretty much standard in those areas. It's a significant cause of lung cancer in the US. Not as much as smoking, but it's up there.
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Phanatic posted:I mean, that's a real issue, lots of the eastern US has enough uranium in the soil for poorly-ventilated basements for radon to be a concern, and inspections for it when you buy a house are pretty much standard in those areas. It's a significant cause of lung cancer in the US. Not as much as smoking, but it's up there. It’s the leading cause of lung cancer in people who don’t smoke. Still trails behind smoking as the actual #1, though. https://www.epa.gov/radon/health-risk-radon#head
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Phanatic posted:I mean, that's a real issue, lots of the eastern US has enough uranium in the soil for poorly-ventilated basements for radon to be a concern, and inspections for it when you buy a house are pretty much standard in those areas. It's a significant cause of lung cancer in the US. Not as much as smoking, but it's up there. Ditto the Rockies. We had a whole elaborate system of air exchangers in the full basements of the houses I grew up in to keep it from pooling and becoming an inhalation danger.
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Scandinavia, too - Sweden mined some of their slate for Uranium back when they were enriching it in case they wanted a weapons program. The concentration isn't high enough for it to ever have been economical, but it's not exactly a surprise that that same slate belt is a bit of a radon source. Oh, and that slate transitions into a whole lot of granite that also offgasses just enough radon to be inconvenient. I'm fortunate enough that all the places I've lived have been either porphyric rocks or old sea bottom, but big parts of the inland have routine radon measurements and ventilation.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Are we talking about radon or radium here? This is the kind of thing that happens when someone collects artifacts for the novelty, without thinking too much about why radioactive pseudoscience quackery went out of style the same way that the fad of alchemists prescribing ["snort a bunch of mercury/antimony/lead"] to cure syphilis did? Dirt Road Junglist posted:Ditto the Rockies. We had a whole elaborate system of air exchangers in the full basements of the houses I grew up in to keep it from pooling and becoming an inhalation danger.
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silentsnack posted:Radium decays into radon, so it's both? Does that mean you can get radon poisoning from a mildly radioactive meteorite slamming into your basement?
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Kwyndig posted:Does that mean you can get radon poisoning from a mildly radioactive meteorite slamming into your basement? Chances of earning a formal Darwin probably depend on whether your basement is still basement-like or whether it gets ventilated all over the countryside by the impact, but if you really believe in yourself and put in enough effort, you can injure yourself all sorts of implausibly silly ways.
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We had to have the sellers of our house install radon mitigation before we moved in. The basement was juuuuust over the limit that was fine, so we asked that they put it in and they did. It's basically just a constant-on vacuum pump that goes to a pipe under my basement and sucks the gas out. There's a little water barometer on the pipe and as long as it's under ambient pressure, you're good.
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Remember when people were paying to hang out in radon-filled tunnels to cure or protect against disease? Ah, the long-distant past. 2021 seems so far away.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Remember when people were paying to hang out in radon-filled tunnels to cure or protect against disease? Ah, the long-distant past. 2021 seems so far away. The weird thing is that it does seems to have a symptomatic effect on a few specific chronic diseases (autoimmune arthritis, maybe?). I'd love a proper study to see if there's anything there.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Remember when people were paying to hang out in radon-filled tunnels to cure or protect against disease? Ah, the long-distant past. 2021 seems so far away. The one down the road from where I grew up is called The Merry Widow  There is the radiation hormesis theory, which says repeated low doses of radiation cause small amounts of damage which the body repairs and then subsequently becomes more resistant to future damage, but the sort of people pushing that the hardest are people like failed Oregon politicians who also tell you to drink your own pee.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Remember when people were paying to hang out in radon-filled tunnels to cure or protect against disease? Ah, the long-distant past. 2021 seems so far away. I want to see the controlled experiment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkusjDFlS0 It’s stupid, but if people are doing it anyway, might as well collect data.
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Autoimmune diseases are just weird enough that I can't conclusively rule out "a bit of radiation damage gives the immune system something better to do than attack your joints" or whatever. It's probably not a thing, but... yeah, I'd like to see a proper study.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:The one down the road from where I grew up is called The Merry Widow Same jerk bags that whine about fluoride in water too.
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There is a town not far from here called Radium Hot Springs
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BMan posted:There is a town not far from here called Radium Hot Springs Yeah? I wonder what their draw is?
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Yeah? I wonder what their draw is? I don't know but they are always in hot water.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Yeah? I wonder what their draw is? The friendly and docile rubber boa, obviously quote:The rubber boa has established populations around Pemberton, British Columbia,[8] Williams Lake, British Columbia,[5] Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia.[9]
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Computer viking posted:Autoimmune diseases are just weird enough that I can't conclusively rule out "a bit of radiation damage gives the immune system something better to do than attack your joints" or whatever. It's probably not a thing, but... yeah, I'd like to see a proper study. Well, I know they've been looking at using parasite eggs to trigger the immune system to reduce allergic reactions (since that's the actual purpose of the IgE and related stuff that cause allergies, parasite response), I believe there was some success doing that. I'd probably prefer if they had an artificial antigen setup over theoretically "killed" parasites if it went to actual treatments though for obvious reasons  .
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MadDogMike posted:Well, I know they've been looking at using parasite eggs to trigger the immune system to reduce allergic reactions (since that's the actual purpose of the IgE and related stuff that cause allergies, parasite response), I believe there was some success doing that. I'd probably prefer if they had an artificial antigen setup over theoretically "killed" parasites if it went to actual treatments though for obvious reasons Yeah, I read about that - and that this is an approach that a) has been studied seriously, and b) seems like it may actually work, is one of the reasons I don't feel safe writing off weird radiation-induced effects offhand.
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Computer viking posted:Yeah, I read about that - and that this is an approach that a) has been studied seriously, and b) seems like it may actually work, is one of the reasons I don't feel safe writing off weird radiation-induced effects offhand. The parasite thing was even something that one of my microbiology/immunology professors mentioned in lecture last year.
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There have been studies before IIRC indicating that live parasites can offer some benefits against some kinds of autoimmune issues, although there's been obvious reluctance to pursue it as a treatment.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Yeah? I wonder what their draw is? Well, one of the things to see in Radium was Rolf, the Wizard of Radium. https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/calgary/2021/6/2/1_5453491.amp.html
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might take hookworm over hayfever tbh
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Weight loss anti autoimmune worms
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Weight loss anti autoimmune worms I'm honestly surprised tapeworms as a weight loss method hasn't come back into vogue from the early 1900s. People literally took the larva concealed in a capsule.
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