It would be almost unheard of for radiation to be acute enough to cause a constant nosebleed, but without any other symptoms, including hair loss (which doesn’t have to be permanent).
Bleeding from acute radiation poisoning often is accompanied by death.
It is more likely that a nosebleed be the result of excessive nose-blowing because of allergies, although as the doctor said, you’d need to do a blood test. Since the nosebleed stopped, and the mother reports no other symptoms, it again suggests a seasonal allergy — you don’t normally recover from acute radiation symptoms while still exposed to the same level of radiation that caused the symptoms.
Of course, we are assuming that the mother accurately reported the symptom, and the translation is accurate. Did the nose bleed “constantly”, or was there just lots of nose bleeds over the time period? Were there other symptoms the mother didn’t notice?
It was, in essence, a purely anecdotal article. The doctor isn’t reported to have scientifically observed a single symptom of radiation illness, and no results of blood tests were reported.
Telling is the doctor’s comment that they needed the blood test “to keep a record”. I would think you’d want the blood test so if you had been poisoned, you would get treatment. You keep records if you are trying to build up information for a big lawsuit, or to push to shut down an industry.
Which seems likely — set up a clinic, advertise for radiation treatment, get every scared parent to show up with whatever sicknesses are common among children, and try to put together enough evidence to make for a good legal filing.
The symptoms described are open to interpretation - why wasn’t anyone interested in interpreting them until a clinic showed up? Nosebleeds may occurr more often in children (sensitive skin) or may result from irritation of the mucous membranes by inhaled contaminants (kid keeps rubbing her nose). The clinic will run the white blood count and find out- I’m glad they are there. TEPCO and the gov has lied to people so much by now they need an outside party to assure them or help them.
‘You keep records if you are trying to build up information for a big lawsuit, or to push to shut down an industry.’
Well you see something sinister in ‘keeping a record’ that I do not. Why wouldn’t someone track platelet levels over time? Knowing how the Gov treated the people in Chernobyl (lied about their exposure etc, raised the legal exposure limit so they could declare sick patients ‘well’ and evict them from hospitals), the clinic workers already know that officials will try to deny that anyone suffered any illness from the worst nuclear disaster in history so I don’t have a problem with them ‘keeping records’.
‘Which seems likely — set up a clinic, advertise for radiation treatment, get every scared parent to show up with whatever sicknesses are common among children, and try to put together enough evidence to make for a good legal filing.’
So there just aren’t physicians who don’t want to see what happened in Chernobyl happen again in Japan? Those who offer a clinic to those living in Fukushima MUST have a profit motive? I think it is TEPCO and the Japanese gov. who should answer for their stance toward children, not the mobile clinic.