High levels of 131 in Kansas- I knew I could taste it!!!!!
I posted on this forum that I could taste the 131 and feel the pin pricks in my skin. Here is the proof:
http://enenews.com/just-in-govt-report-kansas-detected-iodine-131-in-gra...
I knew that I was physically aware despite reports that levels were low. With patience and time, laboratory evidence proved what my body knew to be true.
So could I...
I live in the San Francisco East Bay Area. During the rains of March / April 2011, I tasted a "salty" taste on my lips and in my mouth...or what I associate with salt (I use iodized salt). I wouldn't identify the taste as "metallic"...just salty.
For about 5 months or so after Fukushima, when I would go outside in my yard and brush up against the plants and bushes...while weeding or pruning...my skin tingled and itched where it was exposed to the air or soil. I needed to shower and change my clothes immediately when I came back inside. Even so, my skin continued to tingle and itch for days afterward.
For about 6 months after Fukushima, the lymph glands in my neck would swell up...go down...then swell up again...every day. Most of the time, they were enlarged even though I wasn't ill. I've noticed that my lymph glands haven't been swollen for about the past month...even though I have a cold right now.
Even though I am not allergic to pollen or other substances, something in the air, in the soil, or on the plants was triggering a reaction every time I went outside into my garden.
I haven't worked in the yard for the past month...so I am going to do some yard-work tomorrow. We'll see what happens...
many people concur with the OP
Many of us here in Europe concur with the OP--we've been getting very unusual symptoms esp when exposed to rain outside since Fuku--pinpricks on the skin, metallic taste in mouth, ulcerated mouth, reddening of exposed skin even when we have no sun. Please do not assume that because certain monitoring machines cannot measure the levels as significant, that the levels present cannot affect health. I have listened to enough allergists and environmental health specialists now to know that the human body OFTEN can detect levels of toxins that some machines cannot. This applies, for example, to formaldehyde. Much depends on individual sensitivity, so for someone who feels nothing to deny the experience of others who do feel something is dishonest.
And thus far in my argument, I have not even touched on the possibility that we are not being told the truth about the levels that are being detected. I don't mean here our friends at UCB, whom I believe to be honest scientists (they also have the grace to give us both their measurements AND their interpretation of the measurements, so that people can make their own interpretation). But for example, the Irish Radiological Protection Board has always posted monitoring results for radionuclides, long before Fuku blew, yet has oddly stopped doing ANY reporting in the past few months. I've asked them why, twice, and no response. This doesn't look to me like honesty. Likewise EPA.
Perhaps...
Even though I am not allergic to pollen or other substances, something in the air, in the soil, or on the plants was triggering a reaction every time I went outside into my garden.
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It was "something"; but it's not scientific to say that it was something from Fukushima.
The levels of radioisotopes detected by the BRAWM team with very sensitive instruments is far below any levels that could cause the noticeable effects that you report.
There just wasn't that much.
Inconclusive
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I detected nothing by scent, but there are sensory differences among people and with other species. Perhaps you noticed something ... perhaps so did every dog in the neighborhood ...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168159105002194
Naturalistic quantification of canine olfactory sensitivity
Sensory Research Institute, 1800 E Paul Dirac Dr, B-340 NHMFL, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Rottweiler, Standard Schnauzer ... values obtained (1.9 and 1.14 ppt)
Bloodhounds might extend this limit as may bears or sharks.
http://www.americanbear.org/senses.htm
http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/polar-bear/senses.htm
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_better_can_a_dog_smell_than_a_human
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/underdogs/the-bloodhounds-amazin...
Please don't listen to these
Please don't listen to these mean-spirited who are commenting. I tasted a metallic taste in my mouth (from the air, not food) and felt the pin-pricks here in Arizona, too. I felt the pin-pricks off and on for months. Some people are more sensitive or simply more aware than others.
Some people like to tell themselves that "everything is just fine" when it isn't. Some people stick their heads in the sand and call everyone else nut-cases when their egos are threatened...like Rush Limbaugh and his ilk.
The truth will come out eventually. We have been and are being exposed to larger amounts of radiation than we have been told. All this, in the attempt to further the nuclear industry/cartel and try to silence those who know how deadly it is and how arrogant man has become thinking it can be controlled.
We need more renewable and environmentally/health friendly energy sources and we need to shut down the nuclear plants immediately. Reign in our power consumption to make up the difference. Create healthy energy jobs, create a better world.
Iodine isn't a metal...
Please don't listen to these mean-spirited who are commenting. I tasted a metallic taste in my....
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If you have a metallic taste in your mouth, why do you assume it is Iodine?
Iodine isn't a metal; it's one of the halogens. It's on the opposite side of the periodic table from the metals.
Why don't you go out and get a bottle of iodine, and taste a very small amount ( after all it is toxic ). But find out what iodine tastes like before you say that some metallic taste is iodine, when you've never tasted iodine and don't have the foggiest notion of what it tastes like.
Ridiculous. You're either a
Ridiculous.
You're either a liar, a hypochondriac, or a lunatic. Perhaps even all three.
evolution
Could just be a SUCCESSFUL mutation expressing itself, after all mutations happen all the time, though perhaps with increasing frequency.....
Allergy
Some individuals are allergic to Iodine ... an IV+ allergic condition might enhance some sensitivity to Iodine and or Iodine compounds.
Not my field ... but ... some theoretical possibility exists
spectrum healing
So on that cabbage juice - is that red or green your prescribing ?
The red pill or the blue pill ?
Are we treating the symptom or the cause ?
My recommendation..
My recommendation would be prune juice.
That will fix what is wrong with him.
food choices
I LOVE PRUNES.
You are just as crazy as
You are just as crazy as what your name means. Being able to taste 2000 pCi worth of I-131 means that person can taste 16.1 femtograms of iodine in 1000 grams of dirt. That is 1E-8 ppb. Not possible.
grasp
Hang on to reality as tightly as you can. Certainty is a rare quality, though not particularly admirable in every circumstance. Coloring inside the lines can be comforting in trying situations, if a bit dull. I recommend stretching outside the confines of the box even if it results in a sensation of exposure. Who knows what you might experience ?
Just the result of watching
Just the result of watching a documentary called the Battle of Chernobyl, me thinks. They repeat several times that they were able to taste a metallic taste and feel something like pins and needle in the skin. These were firefighters and emergency workers experiencing an extremely high level of radioactive exposure while involved in operations close to the graphite fires some hours/days after the accident, however, not some hypochondriac several thousand miles away from a very different accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiCXb1Nhd1o