As a breastfeeding mom, do I need to worry about radiation in the OR (i work 2-3 dy/wk) irradiating my milk? - breastfeeding apron
I wear a lead apron when X-rays are used, but I use the heavy task of booster designed for pregnant women?
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Breastfeeding Apron As A Breastfeeding Mom, Do I Need To Worry About Radiation In The OR (i Work 2-3 Dy/wk) Irradiating My Milk?
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The following is a site that has responded to questions by trained medical personnel who are experts in radiation and its effects are. That's what I found:
ReplyDelete"Question: Is there a risk to the newborn if the mother, a radiologist and breast screening procedure is? In other words, irradiated breast after the procedure, transmitted to the child?
A: The radiation-induced chemical changes require a higher dose and seldom harmful to living organisms. Irradiated foods, for example, is a thousand times more exposed than the dose, the doses of diagnosis and no signs of damage.
Conclusion: There are no concerns for nursing mothers to occupational radiation exposure levels below the occupational dose limit of 50 mSv per year. S. Julian Gibbs, DDS, PhD "
http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q29 ...
If you use a lead shield, and this also for the distance, is the radiation dose in the operating room is very small:
"IUR lead apron is one of the best defense against exposure to radiation. It stops 95% of the radiographs. Another way to significantly reduce the exposure of protection can go any further, is from where the X-ray interaction with the patient. This does not mean that you (have to leave the table, but what if you can) you can up or down the length of the table and still increase your distance, not too far from the patient. There is a rule that says if you're on one foot, where the beam between the patient receives about 1% of the dose the patient when you're ten feet, it is reduced to about 0.1%. Reduce the time is another way to reduce exposure, but I think you can not have much influence. Consider an example. If a movie has the standard waist (exposure of patients is about 250 mR, a film of the pelvis is similar, but X-rays of the members are much less), and rising a foot and wore a lead apron (on foot, the dose reducedThe 99% and a lead apron reduces) the remaining 95%, their bodies would receive less under the platform of a mrem. Use the platform and the distance in his favor. "
http://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q11 ...
I would say yes. My grandfather is a place that very low doses of ionizing radiation to treat tumors in the eye for a week. The doctor says I'm not going to be in the same house with him, even my 5 months. old. It is always better to be on the safe side so I put the heavy platform.
ReplyDelete"X-ray contrast agents (contrast agents for diagnostic tests)
ReplyDeleteX-rays, MRI, CT, intravenous urography (IVP), ultrasound, mammography, etc. have no effect on breastfeeding. Barium is sometimes used as a contrast agent is not taken orally and therefore does not affect breast-feeding. "
http://www.kellymom.com/health/meds/radi ...
I feel really good! Also check w / another IBCLC ... This page is maintained by an IBCLC ... but please just to be sure:)
bottom of this page, it seems safe to use w / host family or withdrawal ... but they seem to be things that you added or injected into the bloodstream ...... but you're only a right, high-tech X-ray? Should this not be affected.
Tanya was right.
ReplyDeleteThe thing to remember is that your milk is not an end. Her breasts are not bottles. Milk is round, not from the same milk that now that you two hours ago.
You should not receive more than 30 millirem per month.
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