Re: Is Iodine Tincture Toxic?

[Guest guest]

Sorry for the wrong info - I'm out on my decimals-

LD50 for human oral ingestion 28 gm/kg therefor 1680 gm/kg for a 60 kg

adult.

Sorry for the mix-up.

Winona

>

> I may have missed this in the discussion - but what is the general

> thought about the toxicity of taking Iodine Tincture orally?

>

> I have looked a several companies MSDS forms and the toxicity orally

> seems to be LD50 28mg/kg - or the lethal dose at which 50% may die would

> be 1680 mg for a 60 kg person. This seems to be pretty safe at doses

> even at 1-2 mg doses.

>

> Does anyone else have any other info?

>

> Winona

>

[Guest guest]

> >

> > I may have missed this in the discussion - but what is the general

> > thought about the toxicity of taking Iodine Tincture orally?

> >

> > I have looked a several companies MSDS forms and the toxicity orally

> > seems to be LD50 28mg/kg - or the lethal dose at which 50% may die

would

> > be 1680 mg for a 60 kg person. This seems to be pretty safe at doses

> > even at 1-2 mg doses.

> >

> > Does anyone else have any other info?

> >

> > Winona

> >

>

[Guest guest]

My bottle of tincture has the skull and cross bones -- with DANGER in big letter -- and says for external use only. I didn't want to argue.Do people use it orally??LizOn Apr 5, 2006, at 7:04 PM, curious_researcher2004 wrote: I may have missed this in the discussion - but what is the general thought about the toxicity of taking Iodine Tincture orally? I have looked a several companies MSDS forms and the toxicity orally seems to be LD50 28mg/kg - or the lethal dose at which 50% may die would be 1680 mg for a 60 kg person.  This seems to be pretty safe at doses even at 1-2 mg doses. Does anyone else have any other info? Winona

[Guest guest]

>

> My bottle of tincture has the skull and cross bones -- with DANGER in

> big letter -- and says for external use only. I didn't want to argue.

>

> Do people use it orally??

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I don't know - but the ingredients didn't seem to be terribly

dangerous - especially in 1-2 drop quantities. The ingredients in my

iodine tincture are:

-Iodine 25mg/ml

-Potassium Iodide 25 mg/ml

-Ethyl Alcohol

-Purified Water

Winona

[Guest guest]

The question is whether the ethyl alcohol in tincture of Iodine has

been denatured or not. If it is denatured, the manufacturer does not

have to pay the high alcohol tax, so there is plenty of incentive to

make the tincture with denatured alcohol.

Lugol's is much less expensive than tincture of Iodine, so why

not use Lugol's?

Alobar

On 4/5/06, curious_researcher2004 <wallw@...> wrote:

> Sorry for the wrong info - I'm out on my decimals-

> LD50 for human oral ingestion 28 gm/kg therefor 1680 gm/kg for a 60 kg

> adult.

> Sorry for the mix-up.

>

> Winona

>

[Guest guest]

>

> The question is whether the ethyl alcohol in tincture of Iodine has

> been denatured or not. If it is denatured, the manufacturer does not

> have to pay the high alcohol tax, so there is plenty of incentive to

> make the tincture with denatured alcohol.

>

> Lugol's is much less expensive than tincture of Iodine, so why

> not use Lugol's?

>

> Alobar

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Good point about the denaturation of the alcohol.

I have not been able to find Lugol's where I live - but the tincture

is available - so I was wondering.

Winona