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[jimmydiablo]

Hello all, my next question is salt, do I get the iodized or regular. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Thank you all for input and help

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Hello all, my next question is salt, do I get the iodized or regular. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Thank you all for input and help

Iodized for regular stuff like cooking
non iodized for meat preservation
IMHO because not everyone agrees with this

[protus]

im with matt....

[jmsneorrcom]

does each variety store the same? can you use them interchangable?

[jimmydiablo]

does each variety store the same? can you use them interchangable?

Another great question.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

does each variety store the same? Yes as far as I know but i have not stored it myself for that long so someone who has please jump in, my preparations of past had a different take than what they do now so the LTS the way Delta69 does it is still new to me, i'm only a few yrs old and one of them 6 bucket wonders still, though I am above 6 :) LOL
can you use them interchangable? No, the iodized doesnt do as well on meat preservation but the non iodized can be used for cooking etc you just dont get the iodine from it but that can be obtained from other sources again IMHO

hope this helps

[miked2345]

I use non-iodized salt when making a brine to soak fish in before I smoke it, also when making jerky. Otherwise, I use iodized salt.

[jimmydiablo]

Awesome. Thanks guys

[pixel]

you need the iodized salt to live. Our bodies need it. Normally due to Americas way of eating we get more than enough in our foods but in a SHTF scenario we may be eating out of the garden more often and not getting what we need so I would go with the iodized. Its cheap and stores with no problems.

[crossbow]

you need the iodized salt to live. Our bodies need it. Normally due to Americas way of eating we get more than enough in our foods but in a SHTF scenario we may be eating out of the garden more often and not getting what we need so I would go with the iodized. Its cheap and stores with no problems.

that's where keeping a few bottles of Iodine Tincture around would come in handy, just paint an inch patch anywhere on your body every couple weeks and your body will use what it needs. The iodine price went up after what happened to the reactor in Japan, but people should have a few bottles anyway. this would be for people who have high blood pressure or shouldn't use much salt.

[monkeybird]

http://thyroid.about.com/library/derry/bl2a.htm[QUOTE]The "test" of putting iodine on the skin to watch how fast it disappears is not an indicator of anything. The iodine disappearance rate is unrelated to thyroid disease or even iodine content of the body.(1-2) Meticulous research by Nyiri and Jannitti in 1932 showed clearly when iodine is applied to the skin in almost any form, 50% evaporates into the air within 2 hours and between 75 and 80 percent evaporates into the air within 24 hours. (1) A total of 88 percent evaporates within 3 days and it is at this point that the evaporation stops. The remaining 12 percent that is absorbed into the skin has several fates. Only 1-4% of the total iodine applied to the skin is absorbed into the blood stream within the first few hours. The rest of the iodine within the skin (8-11%) is slowly released from the skin into the blood stream.

However Nyiri and Jannitti's findings that

[crossbow]

My parents’ generation tended to put tincture of iodine onto a fresh wound to prevent infection. This turns out to be helpful but not the best way to use it. Besides it stung badly when applied. It is much more effective (and doesn't hurt) to apply iodine repeatedly after a scab has been formed. The iodine put onto the scab helps to organize total repair of the tissue. It is implied a similar approach could be taken to burns of all depths but at the same time the physiology of burns suggest there is an acute lack of thyroid hormone. (3)
I know all about this, when I was a kid, Iodine was all there was, it went on every cut and it stung. You always hoped that the mercurochrome bottle would come out, but it was usually the Iodine

[redmeat]

Store both iodized and pickling salt. I'm going to store mine in individual ziplock bags in a pail.

[ANVIL]

Crossbow, our sure got this right.
"You always hoped that the mercurochrome bottle would come out, but it was usually the Iodine."