Reddit reviews Polar Pure Iodine Water Purifier Camping Gear More Effective Than Chlorine Tablets, Water Purification Tablets Filter Straws Filtered Water Bottle Kills Bacteria Viruses Emergency Backpacking Survival
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Polar Pure Water DisinfectantDosage chart is printed on the bottleBottle cap measures and gives solution, No other tools requiredUnique bottle design deploys pure crystallized iodine into waterCompact size for travel convenience
Polar Pure is the shit for water purification.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N5AGT1Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_OXh7CbBD852X1
There is a real reason why most chain food restaurants no longer use spring onions as a raw garnish. As a raw vegetable, it's almost impossible to get you low-skilled, low salaried workers to clean them properly. Personally, I'll still get them for doing a stir-fry, but it's too much work usually for garnish. This LPT and many of the comments actually suggest growing your own E.coli.
To be honest, I usually use my Polar-Pure to make a dilute iodine solution to soak the onions in. But it was forced off the market for a while thanks to the War on (some) Drugs, and people have seems to gravitate to pump filters.
oh this is what i was talking about https://www.amazon.com/Polar-Pure-Iodine-Purifier-Sterilizes/dp/B00N5AGT1Q
First, the most effective water treatment is boiling. Period.
Iodine for water purification is perfectly safe and effective. It's cheaper, lighter, and more reliable than filters and battery-powered light pens, etc., etc. Get some Polar Pure, a bottle will last you a lifetime, and get on with your life.
You should also note that the recommended dosages on iodine water treatment packages are usually 10x the dose needed to treat your water. Those dosages are written by lawyers, not scientists (iodine is so safe that recommending a 10x overdosage for water purification doesn't worry company lawyers—think about that). One should also note that iodine is as effective as boiling in killing viruses.
There is no undisputed science backing up claims of long term iodine toxicity in trace/moderate amounts of ingestion. For a typical adult, the highest recommended tolerable daily dose is 1,100 μg/day which is almost impossible to achieve without large amounts of supplementation (one exception is a diet high in certain species of seaweed).
The only iodine toxicity there is, is acute i.e. ingesting a large amount in a short amount of time (drinking an entire bottle) and even then, it is extremely rare for it to be fatal. Usually the majority is vomited back up without being absorbed. Boston General Hospital had hundreds of patients admitted for acute iodine poisoning during the initial years of the Great Depression, because the old wives' tale of iodine overdose as a means of suicide, and for the hundreds of attempted suicides by iodine: zero fatalities.
Bleach is great but for taste I recommend Polar Pure it also in basically infinite. https://www.amazon.com/Polar-Pure-Iodine-Purifier-Sterilizes/dp/B00N5AGT1Q
It's still very available. I use it quite a bit.
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Water filters. Use iodine unless you're in an area where you're drinking out of stagnant, opaque, or fecally polluted sources.
Iodine is NOT toxic, doesn't break like a filter can, doesn't get clogged, doesn't weigh more than a few ounces and doesn't cost an arm and a leg. You can also use it to treat open wounds on the trail (or at home).
One bottle of PolarPure will probably last a lifetime. I'm still using a bottle I bought in 1988.