Guest guest Posted November 28, 2008 Report Share Posted November 28, 2008 , You wrote: > > > I'm just curious, but do they make an iodine tablets that don't have > salt in > it, or is it the salt that is the iodine? Like cheap ones at walgreens or > something. Depends on what you mean by salt. A salt results from the reaction of an acid with a base. Potassium iodide is a salt. However, table salt is mostly sodium chloride. The iodide in it is only a trace amount. You can buy iodine and iodide salts from sources other than Optimox. For example, most pet stores carry Lugol's solution for marine aquariums. You can buy seaweed and other iodine supplements at any health store. They also sell topical solutions and water purification tablets, but you need to be careful of the ingredients. Many of the topicals cannot be taken internally. Lugol's is elemental iodine dissolved in a potassium iodide solution in water. If you can buy the pure iodine and the potassium iodide, you can make your own Lugol's rather easily. Just be careful of the concentrations. The " Strong " solution has much more iodine in it than other formulations. A rather broad range still qualifies as " Lugol's, " even though he originally made the Strong version only. Since elemental iodine will gradually evaporate from the Lugol's solution, Optimox does have a good claim in providing an equivalent dose in a stable solid form. However, you pay more for that stability. You could just keep the lid on. Chuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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