One pack of IOSAT™ (14 pills) or one bottle of ThyroShield™ is the FDA recommendation for one person.

Potassium Iodide should be taken each day you are exposed to radioactive iodine (I-131) released from a nuclear plant or nuclear bomb. Chances are one person would not use up all 14 doses of IOSAT™ or ThyroShield™ in a single radiation emergency. In theory, the winds that brought the radioactive iodine plume into your area would have carried much of the airborne radiation away by then and you would have hopefully evacuated the affected area if directed to do so by health officials. If you are exposed to radioactive iodine (I-131) for two days you take just two IOSAT™ pills (one pill a day) and then stop, saving the remaining foil-sealed pills for future need. However, if exposed for 14 days, you would take a pill a day using all 14 IOSAT™ tablets. (Potassium Iodide is not like an antibiotic which requires you to finish the full regimen prescribed). The truth of the matter is you just don't know how long you would be exposed to I-131 in advance. And you wouldn't know if you were currently being exposed unless notified by emergency officials monitoring your area with radiation detectors. (A back-up plan would be your own personal radiation detector).

Consider one pack (IOSAT™) or bottle (ThyroShield™) per person for each storage location. i.e.- home, work, school, etc.

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