Acute radiation sickness affects bone marrow and hence production of white and red blood cells in your body is severely affected. You suffer from chronic fatigue and regular infections. Often, such exposure affects your childbearing ability.
Lifestyle Changes and Self-Help for Acute Radiation Sickness
New York (USA), June 26, 2013
Acute Radiation Sickness: Lifestyle Changes and Self-Help
Acute radiation sickness affects bone marrow and hence production of white and red blood cells in your body is severely affected. You suffer from chronic fatigue and regular infections. Often, such exposure affects your childbearing ability.
If affected by radiation, you can spread it to others. Hence, you need help from professionals. These trained people can remove such radioactive minerals from your body and thereafter you do not spread radiation.
Lifestyle changes and self-help include:
– Regular blood tests for blood counts and blood group are important to detect extent of damage and monitor treatment.
– You should be decontaminated.
– Open wounds like burns or injuries should be covered before such decontamination.
– Urine, nasal swabs, and stool samples should be tested for internal contamination.
– Skin and hair should be washed. Clothes should be changed.
– Take potassium iodide tablets to prevent thyroid cancer in future.
– Proper medications to treat symptoms like vomiting and diarrhea are essential.
– You should remain well hydrated with sufficient fluids and electrolytes.
– If severely affected, psychological support and care is vital and important. Painkillers can ease pain.
– Rotation of health care workers is important to prevent further spread of radiation contamination.
– Antibiotics should be administered if your WBC count is very low. This prevents infections.
– Moral support is of paramount importance.
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