Radiation Levels Are high In New Zealand. 29 March 2011
I have already commented on the fact that my own health is suffering because of the radioactive fallout from Japan, the aftermath of the terrible earthquake/tsunami disaster.
These definite symptoms of poisoning have been with me now for about five days.
Many people have suddenly succumbed to colds and sore throats – I think Rachel Smalley from TV3 had a cold yesterday. My son is suddenly feeling unwell. Many others too.
I have tasted iodine in the air: Thursday Friday were days when this was very strong. Then, over the weekend, the taste I could discern was more metallic, more heavy, like lead. I guess this must be radioactive caesium: This apparently takes longer to break down than iodine.
I have not checked any authority on the measured levels of radiation here in New Zealand, but from my own symptoms, I am certain that we are being affected already, and that everybody SHOULD be taking precautions. I think it is extremely irresponsible for our government not to be encouraging people to do so. They obviously have no idea about how the stuff can affect you.
I have stopped drying my washing outdoors. It is drying in a rack inside right now. Clothes left outside will get radioactive particles dropped onto them, and this will be an added source of radiation which your body will absorb.
I have stopped eating the beans from my garden, and all other herbs and vegetables too - These will be covered with radiation poisons – incidentally, they have suddenly collapsed on me, looking as if the vines are suffering from the pollution as well.
What Foods Can i Eat To Prevent Radiation Poisoning?
Growing bean sprouts indoors is the safest way to procure your greens, providing you are using clean unpolluted water. As long as you have a clean supply of water, you can rely on rice and mung bean sprouts to keep you going.
My nervous system is affected quite profoundly – same sort of effect as if you are being poisoned by a large amount of insecticide or herbicide, such as when MAF were riddling Aucklanders with their apple moth spray, sprayed down aerially over large masses of Auckland. Similar effect on the nervous system to when an overindulgence of alcohol has occurred (I have not had a drink for the past 12 years, but I know what this feels like)
Well, nobody has sprayed anything near my house. I live right on the beach, and it was a great healthy spot before this nuclear disaster occurred in Japan, at Fukushima. There is no other poison about except for the radioactive fallout.
I feel terrible – worse after being outside, for sure. Neck glands in the thyroid area have been sore and swollen though they are not so bad today: They were worst when i could taste the iodine very strongly, and, I think that maybe they were worse when I was walking around gaily last week, with no protective covering on my skin. It helps to keep the body covered and not expose flesh to the elements.
I have made a solution of olive oil and kelp and have been rubbing this onto the soles of the feet, so that my iodine levels are kept high. I have used just two heaped teaspoons of powdered kelp to about 150 mls of olive oil. This is an economical way to use your kelp, though it is good also to add powdered kelp to your food. Iodine from kelp, or spirulina, or liquid iodine, fish, or some other food, is important so that your body does not absorb the radioactive iodine which is in the air as a result of the nuclear disaster. Buy up plenty of tinned sardines and tuna now, to ensure that these have been processed well before the Japanese nuclear disaster.
I have begun putting a scarf over my face, like the Japanese with their face masks. Protecting the skin from this radiation stops the symptoms of tingling and smarting of flesh which has otherwise occurred. I wear socks on my feet about the house, as I realized that the tingling and pains in the bones of the feet were arriving straight after I had been walking about my flat barefoot. This is because we tramp the radioactive poisons inside on our shoes, and then, walking barefoot, they get absorbed into the pores of the skin.
My friend Bernhard Petersen has come in spirit to say “You are right to take this radiation seriously, and it is good to write about it. Be careful. Lethargy is a symptom of radiation poisoning”.
My eyes are sore if I have been out walking. I now wear sunglasses to try and protect my eyes from the poison. This helps, though they still get exposed to the radiation. I wear gloves when out walking, as I find that this stops bone pain and pins and needles in the hands which result from walking around with this skin unprotected.
Dizzy, fuggy head, and sore lungs, as if I have been breathing insecticide in the air.
I am not drinking tap water for the meantime. Don’t know what I will do once my bottled water runs out. Let’s hope the Fukushima nuclear power reactors are brought under control soon, and that the radiation will be contained. But this is, I think, is wishful thinking, and so we will need to be prepared for these current hazardous conditions to remain with us for quite a while. This means buying bottled spring water, unless you are lucky enough to have a water tank, in which case you should disconnect the inlet pipes right away, if you haven’t done so already. You should also cover the top of your tank, to prevent the radioactive particles in the air from entering into your water. Wish I was still on Waiheke Island, right now. Everybody has tank water over there.
If the radiation is bad now, in New Zealand, I pity the people of Japan who must be feeling very ill and lethargic.
I hope that the leakages do not get worse, for the sake of the people in Japan, but also for ourselves - that higher levels of radiation come our way. It will take longer for many of us to succumb to cancer than if we lived in Japan, however, we will suffer all the same, – the effects will just take longer to manifest.
I have put up a couple of posts in the past week on how to reduce your exposure to the radiation in the New Zealand air. Read these: Radiation Pollution in New Zealand, and Iodine Protects Against Radiation. These are about four or five posts behind this one.
It is better to err on the side of caution, even if you think you are not being affected. Given time, it will be acknowledged that in the past week, many of us in New Zealand have already been affected adversely by the radioactive fallout coming from Japan.
I live in the United States and yesterday or I should say day before yesterday which was April 4th we had a day that was raining off and on. I smelled a very strange smell in the air. It smelled like I have never smelled it before. I happened to get wet from the rain and I did not shower right away just changed clothes and did not wash hair. Now I have been experiencing a lot of the symptoms that you were writing about earlier from the bomb testing you were exposed to. I have been having sharp pains in my lower leg. I am experiencing sore ear like swimmers ear. I also had a very difficult time with my breathing that day when I was exposed to the outside air before the rain came down. They say the radiation has been detected in the rain in surrounding states around me. Those that have tested. They also report that they are low doses. No other data has been given to us here. I live on the eastern side of the U S. So it has to be worse on the Western side of the United States. I wish now I had washed my self and my hair after being out in rain that day. I was drizzled on enough to wet my shirt and my hair. My feet were wet enough to have to change my sox from the rain water. I have read your writings about this and will pass it on to others in my Country.
Thankyou Lavonna – I think it is good to be mindful and take precautions, just in case. It sounds to me like the radiation – plus smoke from chemical fires, will be distributed over many parts of the world by now. From my own experience – and yours too, it would seem that we ARE being affected by toxins coming from Japan.
Our government agencies which test this sort of thing have said that we are in no danger – but the situation of radiation combined with chemical fire pollutants polluting the atmosphere on such a large scale as this Japanese disaster, is unprecedented. The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl contaminated the environment, but there were not the large scale fires in chemical factories, and at oil refineries, to coumpound the pollution.
Of course, I have no PROOF about these theories. But my experience has shown that, after identifying something very wierd in the air, taking precautions has helped. In the past few days here in NZ we have had southerly winds which have helped to disperse the stuff – thank goodness. Thanks again for your comment. This is truly supportive of my claim. Regards Merrilyn
Hi,
I live in Brisbane Australia.
I too am very ill with symptoms not unlike those mentioned however I live in the spray fall out zone of a kiwifruit farm and am having a lot of trouble obtaining a list of the chemicals they routinely and regually spray. Further to this, after numerous requests will they advise me of when they are applying these toxins.
As well as flushing, skin and lips, gums tongue burning, chronic allergies and sensitivities, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and arthritis I am now experiencing neurological symptoms. 23 people of different ages, within a 5 k radios of my home, have died in the last 12 years. 1/2 had very aggressive and not common cancers one of whom has been firmly linked with organophosphates
I need to know what they are spraying so I can be tested and eliminate or know what is killing me. As we rely on tank water for everything.
Can anyone advise me of what I can do to obtain this information as this is a NZ owned company.
I am now too ill to fight this on my own. All assistance appreciated
Robyn
Hi Robyn
Sorry to hear that you are suffering poisoning symptoms from kiwifruit spray. Your story reminds me of when I was living in Nambour years ago. At the time, I was in delicate health, as I had already suffered poisoning before I went to live there. The sugar-cane spray in the area was very toxic to me, and to many other people. We did our best to try and promote awareness, and to have the spraying stopped, or at least to be given a warning when they were about to do their spraying. ABC interviewed me about this. But – hard to fight big business and drug companies. We had no result in getting the spray stopped. The growers all claimed that the stuff would not hurt people. Just as NZ health authorities in the 1970′s, backed by the chemical comapny which made 245T in NZ, told us that there was no evidence that 245T harmed people.
My reckoning is that many different chemcials would be used by non-organic growers of kiwifruit. This is a real worry for you living in the area, and should be of concern to people eating the fruit.
Did you know that in New Zealand, over in Te puke, they have been spraying our kiwifruit with an antibiotic? I think that the antibiotic is streptomycin. The chemical has been linked to still-births, birth defects, and diseases of the young child. A young woman living in the area who is expecting a baby has moved away because of the health danger to her child. An article on her appeared in a NZ paper recently. I have written up a post on this fairly recently – will check the title and the drug for you. Drug companies and authorities here claim that the amount of antibiotic people are receiving through the spray, or through eating the kiwifruit, is minimal, and won’t affect you. But of course, this is nonsense – and it is both arrogant and hugely irresponsible to claim that the chemical is safe. It might take years before it can be proven conclusively that this poison, combined with other poisons, is causing disease and death. Meanwhile ppeople will suffer.
These agricultural poisons, including streptomycin on kiwifruit, most surely do affect us, even in small microdoses, as the science of homeopathy proves. And if you are living near an orchard, well God help you, as you will receive a zillion times more of the poison being used than the person who eats even a lot of kiwifruit.
So I am not surprised by the statistics of fatal cancers in your area – thankyou for providing us with these details.
It might be good to move away from this area, to protect your health. In the meantime- homeopathic Thuja might be very helpful to negate those poisons in your body. I use homeopathic Thuja whenever I am exposed to toxic sprays, such as those herbicides and pesticides which my neighbours might use. An excellent homeopathic preparation is the Weleda Thuja/Echinacea complex. This is made in Havelock North, New Zealand, using organic herbs. Weleda have huge organic gardens in Havelock North. This Thuja complex made by Weleda helped me to detoxify from asbestos and heavy metal poisoning. Thuja is a marvellous homeopathic remedy for poisoning, or for negating the bad effects of vaccinations.
Another thing which I would take to quickly remove poisons, is Castor Oil. Take this every second day in a 2 tablespoon dose, for three doses. Then spread the dose further apart, so that you are taking it about once a week. This will quickly help those neurological symptoms. You do need to use an enema, however, because of the build-up of these agricultural poisons. The enema, taken after the castor oil, and whenever you feel nauseous, will wash away those poisons quickly, which have been released by the castor oil. It is important to wash the poisons away as soon as possible, so that your intestines do not have a chance to reabsorb them into the blood stream.
It might be a good idea for you to visit a professional homeopath or an Ayurvedic practtitioner, for further advice on this.
All the best for your recovery. Keep in touch.
Regards, Merrilyn.