Talk:Lugol's iodine

Starch? In an animal?

Sorry if the article is correct, but I find it hard to believe normal vaginal tissue has starch, as it is a product of plant metabolism. I'd google to clarify, but these are keywords I'd rather not let the wild internet educate me about ;)

Is this the stuff

thats a brown liquid, commonly used in school labs and is commonly reffered to as just iodine? Plugwash 01:33, 25 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Almost - Iodine is I and KCl solved in ethanol, whereas Logol's iodine is in water. I'm not sure whether the propotions are similar or very different. Iodine can't (shouldn't) be ingested, whereas Lugol's iodine can, and has been used widely at least once (after Chernobyl).

Content´s of Lugol´s Iodine.

Is the article right or wrong, saying "It consists of 10% iodine (I2) and 10% potassium iodide (KI) in 80% distilled water with..."? In Encyclopedia Britannica it say´s: " antiseptic introduced into medicine in 1829 by the French physician Jean Lugol. An effective bactericide and fungicide, Lugol's solution is a transparent brown liquid prepared by dissolving, first, 10 parts of potassium iodide, then 5 parts of iodine, in 85 parts of water. It is less irritating than iodine tincture (a solution in alcohol) when applied to open wounds." To the best of my knowledge the article should say: "It consists of 5% iodine (I2) and 10% potassium iodide (KI) in 85% distilled water with..."Studentroland 13:26, 15 September 2007 (UTC)unsigned comment added by Studentroland (talk • contribs) 13:19, 15 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yep. Will change the formula. S B H arris 03:58, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Article states that Lugols was used at Chernobyl.

A check of the cite shows it as not Lugols, but SSKI, a supersaturated solution of potassium iodide, with no free iodine. This makes much more sense. I'm removing the reference and putting it in the SSKI article. S B H arris 03:58, 9 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lugol's in thyroid storm

Somebody has added the idea that Lugol's can be used to treat thyroid storm (hyperthyroid emergency caused by other than thryoid ingestion). No, that's again confusing it with SSKI, the saturated potassium iodine solution with no free iodine. Free iodine is TOXIC. You'd never want to drink it in more than water purification amounts. The same confusion happened above with the Chernobyl case, where again it was SSKI, not Lugol's, that was used. Since we don't yet have a Wiki on SSKI (I'll do it as soon as I find a formula), I've ofloaded this SSKI info to the section in applications for potassium iodide. S B H arris 21:27, 2 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm polish and I canm admit that in Poland there was used Lugol's iodine. I can give you references in polish. Lugol's iodine has only 1% of free iodine, maybe that amount is not toxic. A person who recomended that action (prof.Z.Jaworowski) pointed that using Lugol's iodine has no side-effects.