Is there a doctor (MD) in the house?
 

Did quick search here, didn't find this topic.
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Re:
potassium iodide
potassium iodate

I take triameterene/HCTZ daily,
as I am sure others here do too.

Can we use potassium iodide/iodate
safely?

If not, how long after stopping
triamterene should we wait
before taking potassium iodide/iodate?

I have some potassium iodate.
Is at really necessary to switch and
store potassium iodide instead?

I always forget to ask my doctor
about this.

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I'm not aware nor can I find reference to any direct interaction between iodide and triameterene/HCTZ. I am deliberately ignoring the potassium portion as it should be comparatively small on a molar basis vis-a-vis dietary potassium. These distal tubular diuretics can cause hyperkalemia; so periodic blood work to check potassium and other serum/plasma electrolytes is advisable.

Postassium iodate is just as good as Postassium Iodide as a chemoprotectant when injested, as iodate ion is virtually instantly reduced to iodide ion in vivo.

Do talk to your doctor - it couldn't hurt and might help.

Hope this helps - good luck - let's hope you never need the KI.

Dr. Mamboni

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Dr. Mamboni-

Thank you very much!

namaste'

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I found something.
Medscape Drug Interaction Checker
says the interaction can result in severe
hyperkalemia.

medscape.com/druginfo/druginteractions

I will be getting a checkup next week and ask my doc.

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My understanding of this oft-debated topic is that the iodate version hasn't been as thoroughly tested as the iodide. It is pretty much assumed that it will offer the same protection. The advantage of the iodate is that potassium iodide tablets have a nasty tendency to make one vomit. (If you vomit up the stuff, it's not going to be much help to you!) The potassium iodate is supposed to have a better chance of not being vomited up.

Dosage instructions should be followed carefully, especially where children are concerned. It is not recommended for those in their 50s or older (by the time the thyroid cancer from radiation develops, you'd probably be dead, or nearly dead, of old age anyway, and the chances of thyroid storm/hyperthyroidism are much higher. It should not be taken by anyone with known hyperthyroidism.

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Dear sam,

Diuretics, ie water pill is given to patients with mild hypertension. However they cause the body to loose potassium and other electrolytes through the urine.

Potassium deficiency can occur in patients on diuretics. Hence your doctor might have checked your blood levels of potassium. Go back and see if you have a lab report of potassium.
Both low and high potassium levels are dangerous. As long as the kidneys are working well high potassium may not occur.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks madhu.

As Maddie points out (I didn't realize that)
we are too old for radiation caused thyroid
cancer to be an issue anyway. :frown:

namaste'
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Don't know where else to put this:
I knew Honey volunteered to help
her family by picking a neighbor's
cotton when she was seven. The
few times she did it, her father let
her keep the 50c she was paid for
a days work.

She just told me last night, at age
10-12 she had a real job harvesting
onions after school and on Saturdays.
She said it was hard because she had
to be on her knees to pick. Sometimes
when pulling onions out of the ground,
she would squish rotten ones, which
smelled awful.

dtnwn

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It was mid 70's, I returned home from six weeks
in the field in Costa Rica. A few days after I got back,
I found a live scorpion
in one of my bags. Must be a common thing
to have happen.

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Had a physical/checkup today.
It was three years since my last one!
I remembered to ask about KI/KI03.
My doc didn't seem to think taking
it with triamterene was a terribly
risky thing to do. At my age (close to 60)
he didn't seem to think that packing my
thyroid with iodine on the occasion of a
radioactive cloud drifting in my direction
was a real urgent thing to do. Your doc
may have a different opinion ....

namaste'