Radiation sickness: 8 terrifying symptoms
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Nausea and vomiting
Sometimes people with radiation sickness feel bad at first and then start to feel better. But often new, more serious symptoms appear within hours, days, or even a few weeks of this "latent" stage.
Spontaneous bleeding
The problems occur because radiation depletes the body of platelets, the cellular fragments in the blood that are form clots to control bleeding.