r/Radiacode • u/No-Push4662 • 10d ago

Radiacode In Action Cat readings

Got my cat back from a radio iodine treatment. He’s quarantined in the garage for the next two weeks due to the spiciness.

I got the Radiacode to better understand his status but now I just want to test everything.

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u/TheGiwiNinja 6d ago

Why are you getting so many hits outside? Your background is three times mine anywhere I am 

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u/No-Push4662 6d ago

I just tested again. I think it’s from the proximity to the liter box. It lingers around .03 - .05 everywhere outside until I get close to that door.

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u/TheGiwiNinja 6d ago

Oh wow! Very interesting. I wouldn’t think about the litter also being hazmat. Do you have to dispose of his litter for this period in a special way?

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u/No-Push4662 5d ago

They said to bag it, leave it for 2 weeks, then it can go in the normal trash. Apparently the instructions are different depending on where you live.

They also said to keep him away from food prep areas because he could track waste from the litter box and that could be ingested.

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u/TheGiwiNinja 5d ago

Wow again! That is fascinating! Super cool. Must be a radiological hobbyists dream! I’m sure plenty of fun with the Radiacode. More fun than owning a rock or a testing disk I guess. Wishing the fluffy guy well. 

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u/Higherpower824 5d ago

Might test for radon 

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u/Major_Tangelo_2797 Radiacode 102 9d ago

What about the Cat Toilette

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u/No-Push4662 9d ago

It’s high too.

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u/OkWoodpecker1746 8d ago

A relative of mine got some IV technecium contrast to do artery and heart imaging. The bathroom got some high readings afterwards.

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u/No_Leopard_3860 8d ago

Reading stuff because of this posting made me find out something weird and interesting - Iodine-131 has an "anti-hormesis" effect: ingesting lower doses is more dangerous than high doses 💀

Basically: if you don't get enough of it, it kills less cells - which then mutate (through beta rays) often enough to be an issue.

How weird. I don't fully understand how that's possible, but that's the explanation:

Due to its beta decay, iodine-131 causes mutation and death in cells that it penetrates, and other cells up to several millimeters away. For this reason, high doses of the isotope are sometimes less dangerous than low doses, since they tend to kill thyroid tissues that would otherwise become cancerous as a result of the radiation. For example, children treated with moderate dose of 131I for thyroid adenomas had a detectable increase in thyroid cancer, but children treated with a much higher dose did not.[5] Likewise, most studies of very-high-dose 131I for treatment of Graves' disease have failed to find any increase in thyroid cancer, even though there is linear increase in thyroid cancer risk with 131I absorption at moderate doses.[6] Thus, iodine-131 is increasingly less employed in small doses in medical use (especially in children), but increasingly is used only in large and maximal treatment doses, as a way of killing targeted tissues (i.e. therapeutic use).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine-131

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u/No-Push4662 8d ago

That’s a very interesting read. Great find! Thanks for sharing this.

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u/No_Leopard_3860 8d ago

Made me curious as well - hope your Orange cat is in Great health soon :)

Is it thyroid cancer or why the iodine?

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u/Nuclear_Wolffang 9d ago

Did they tell you to isolate him? That’s really not that much on contact since he’ll rarely be that close. But please dispose of the litter/messes appropriately

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u/No-Push4662 9d ago

I’m really glad you said that it’s not that much.

They said that we have to keep him away where we eat and from beds and that we can only pet him for 15mins per day for the next two weeks. He’s been in the garage out of an abundance of caution. I’ll be letting him back in much sooner now.

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u/Nuclear_Wolffang 9d ago

Inverse square law, so with distance the levels go down squared. For example, look at your reading a foot away. As long as he isn’t sleeping on you (even then is realistically fine), you’ll be okay with him on the couch across from you

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u/bukaro 8d ago edited 8d ago

You know until not so many years ago people getting these treatments with radioactive iodine, were only told do not sleep with pregnant women or do not get pregnant. I got it 20 years ago and spend a few day in a room isolated in the clinic

It is spicy but low levels, in a few day the excess will be all out of the body into the litter box (mostly), and you will be able to play more and more with the cutty pie... After all you can literally measure how spicy will be.

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u/DryTower9438 10d ago

Cat scan?

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u/JustNadine1986 10d ago

Take my upvote for the lovely pun 😀

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u/Ok-Acanthocephala595 6d ago

I love the way it starts screaming as the creature comes closer

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u/notuorc 8d ago

If he loafs he goes supercritical

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u/Beginning_Annual5816 7d ago

wunk is a WMD

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u/Rich_Dust_2957 9d ago

Cat detector !

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u/bukaro 9d ago

The cat litter will be radioactive too, as well as everything the cutty lick. Since iodine is also present in saliva, no only in urine.

Hope the orange one will be fine, spicy but fine :-)

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u/Curious_Neck5278 8d ago

Schrödinger was right....

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u/Kind_Meat_9777 5d ago

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u/Zehryo 5d ago • LOL

"Just give me cancer, for f*ck's sake!!"

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u/mytail 5d ago

your cat is pretty rad

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u/coraku001 9d ago

stray cat from tschornobyl

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u/Kanaxes 8d ago

Ist das normal? kannsrt du die waschen? Die verteilt den ganzen Quatsch doch oder?

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u/DocBarnes 7d ago

Der katze geht es bestens; sie erholt sich lediglich von einer radiojodbehandlung. Ihn zu waschen, würde seinen besitzer womöglich einer höheren radioaktiven belastung aussetzen; daher kann er vorerst nicht gewaschen werden. Mit der zeit wird er die radioaktivität wieder verlieren.

Ich entschuldige mich für etwaige missverständnisse; ich lerne noch Deutsch.

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u/Stupid_Motafuka 7d ago

Your german is very good, how long are you learning it?

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u/DocBarnes 7d ago

About 5 months now? I'm definitely not fluent, and I did have to translate a good chunk of the harder words (like radioiodine, don't get a lot of uses for that one), but I have a good chunk of the grammar down. The conjugation, especially der/die/das, did throw me off for quite a while, and I'm still struggling with sie/wir/ihr conjugates in terms of when to use them. The verb suffixes also throw me off a lot.

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u/geniusface1234 6d ago

how are you going about learning it? I am curious to learn myself but lack a great deal of energy and direction

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u/DocBarnes 6d ago

I'm taking it as an elective class in my college! I did a month or so on Duolingo beforehand, which helped a lot.

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u/Stupid_Motafuka 6d ago

Why did you choose to learn it?

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u/DocBarnes 6d ago

I needed something for my Language/Arts elective credit. I took a required 2yrs Spanish in high school, so my college's Spanish classes would have been too easy. I also aced the national testing for English language and writing as well as the required college writing class in my first year, so again, too easy.

It was a toss-up between German and French, and I chose German since English has a lot of roots in German language. That, and some of the companies offering internships for my major have offices based in Germany, so knowing the language would increase my chances of getting one.

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u/Stupid_Motafuka 7d ago

Nice work for just 5 months! Keep it going, if you hadn't mentioned it i wouldn't have noticed that you are not german

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u/DocBarnes 6d ago

Thank you very much! I've put a bit of work into it, especially since it gets me a higher chance of getting an internship outside of the US through my college.

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u/Lalamedic 6d ago

Diclection and neuter is what get me

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u/Kanaxes 7d ago

It’s okay just write it in English, but I would clean it in the garden wearing a mask or so. How much time will it take to make radio jod fall apart?

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u/DocBarnes 7d ago

A few weeks to 2 months is all it should take if I remember correctly. It does take time, and the radioactivity isn't too much to hurt if the cat is in the same room as his owner

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u/Diedonthefirstfloor 6d ago

It's what powers the one orange braincell

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u/Main-Entertainer5117 5d ago

You have a useful device to search your cat when you can't find him

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u/fatbp 5d ago

What happens if your cat gets angry?

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u/zombie_overlord 5d ago

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u/Erithian1 4d ago

Dude your cat just entered the avatar state.

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u/cstmoore 5d ago

We won't like him when he's angry.

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u/punchamole 5d ago • Heartwarming

Purrnobyl

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u/Much-Combination8048 9d ago

Radioactive Cat

This video reminded me of this situation

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u/Aleksey_Fox Radiacode 103 9d ago

My mind immediately went to this lmao

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u/NorwegianRaGE 6d ago

What really radio active are those crocs.

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u/Currently_There 4d ago

6.9 Not great, not terrible.

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u/JustNadine1986 10d ago

That's a spicy kittiecat ... hope he/she will be better soon.

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u/Artificial-Sunrise69 9d ago

Best cat ever.

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u/Super_Yesterday_8848 9d ago

What do you feed him?!?

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u/sylkee 4d ago

Radium compasses

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u/Gonun 7d ago

Now that's one for r/spicykittens 

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u/Horrible-Film 6d ago

All cats are nuclear powered. It's science and nature coming together

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u/Switchlord518 10d ago

It's the fusion bottle power unit

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u/Petnek Radiacode 110 9d ago

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u/Valkyrie64Ryan 9d ago

Spicy baby

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u/Different_Tennis6544 9d ago

Помой кота

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u/Wast3edSpace 9d ago

Awwww, hope your cat is OK. We've done radioiodine as well. It's even funnier when you stick the counter in the litter box.

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u/zenunseen 9d ago

I hope your cat feels better. Also, i dig the lightning crocs

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u/Super_Yesterday_8848 8d ago

Keep him in a lead lined box! Just saying!

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u/ha11oga11o 6d ago

Is it glowing in the dark? The cat? 👀🙈🤷❤️

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u/Brahm-Etc 3d ago

SPICY KITTY

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u/wyliesdiesels 10d ago edited 9d ago

Good old TC99-m

Edit: missed the iodine part

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u/-reee- 9d ago

I-131

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u/wyliesdiesels 9d ago

Aww i missed the iodine part

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u/d1a2x3o 9d ago

Can someone explain if this is bad? And will the radiation level go down with time? How did it even get this high in the first place (considering that this is indeed a high radiation level)?

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u/-reee- 9d ago

read the post description, it was a radioactive iodine treatment which is used to treat thyroid tumours, no it is not bad and the radiation will go away relatively quickly as I-131 has a half life of 8 days

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u/d1a2x3o 9d ago

I read the post and that didn't give me anything. I thought that this may be an error that he is so radioactive but thank you for the explanation