NB It’s iodide, not iodine (potassium iodide, KI) and it MUST be pharmaceutical grade, NOT photo grade. If you see someone dosing out Lugol’s iodine to kids, politely take it off them and use it for wounds or sterilising fruit/veg.
If you don’t have tablets, but do have pharmaceutical grade KI powder, you need a very accurate balance to weight the correct dose for children, something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07RZR5HYF
Buy it now. In an emergency, deliveries may be problematic.
Some other resources, which might be useful in other continents:
NB It’s iodide, not iodine (potassium iodide, KI) and it MUST be pharmaceutical grade, NOT photo grade. If you see someone dosing out Lugol’s iodine to kids, politely take it off them and use it for wounds or sterilising fruit/veg.
If you don’t have tablets, but do have pharmaceutical grade KI powder, you need a very accurate balance to weight the correct dose for children, something like this:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07RZR5HYF
Buy it now. In an emergency, deliveries may be problematic.
Some other resources, which might be useful in other continents:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/radiation-emergencies-information-for-the-public/what-to-do-in-a-radiation-emergency#iodine
https://www.ready.gov/radiation
This is old, but has some good content:
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA328301.pdf