Do RadX and RadAway from Fallout exist in real life? How do we medically prevent and treat radiation poisoning?
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There isn’t really much in the way of fixing radiation damage beyond regular old antibiotics and burn care stuff.
Fallout pills are kinda similar to iodine pills. If you get a lot of radiation but not really so much it burned you the next bad thing that happens is a bunch of radiation collects in your thyroid and makes that fail (or later gives you thyroid cancer). To prevent that “anti radiation” pills are generally just a bunch of iodine, so your thyroid will fill up with that instead. That is what you will see if you see a solider taking anti-radiation pills or hear about anti-radiation pills being shipped to civilians around chernobyl or something. They don’t really protect you from radiation in a general sense, but they do prevent a super common effect of sort of medium doses of radiation. More radiation and you get burned up and get burn treatment, less radiation and you get cancer 30 years later, medium amount and your thyroid fails but we do have protection pills for that one.
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