I dunno. As I said, I suspect its high chemical activity busts up the chemistry of the toxins.
I got royally POed when the FDA took it off the market for a while on account of apparently they use in in meth labs. I went out and bought just about every bottle of it I could find.
They put it back on the market, but I was and still am pissed at the FDA for that and the tryptophan banning.
Ben: "I find that interesting. I wonder what their reasons are?"
On the "reasons," I talked to who used to be my Dr. about it and he said, "But it would inhibit healing." I told him outright that I'd rather have a slow complete clean healing than have germs replicating and spreading around in my tender little body under the superficial fast healing.
In addition, the last time I opened my yap about iodine, I got hit by tons of "yeah, buts" by half a dozen medicos on that board. The yeah, buts mainly revolved around its inherent toxicity and the healing inhibition and "better" options. Hey, it's not like I was painting iodine all over myself like in that *expletive deleted*hole M*A*S*H episode where they covered some poor schnook in iodine to make him think he had turned into a negro.
Oh, oh, and I got called out for mixing up histamines and antihistamines. OK, I'll give you that one. Dummy me.
On open cuts I'll put a bandage over them as in normal practice, but then dab some tincture of iodine on the padding and let that migrate around toward the wound slowly.
I swearta G-d, modern medical practitioners are almost as brainwashed as journalists and leftists.
I've got enough "reserve" bottles of iodine around that if I'm ever raided for drugs (which I don't use, make, or market), those would be included in the various "drug paraphernalia" things I happen to have... suchlike several small scales and a half ton of small plastic baggies.
And teaspoons.
Oh, and candles.
"Drug paraphernalia," my soft pink ass.
Terry, 230RN
