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mamallama
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Radiation?
DH had a cat scan and an MRI within the last couple of days...I drove him home afterwards both times. Do you think that I could have been exposed to any of the radiation? I'm nervous...
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kimmie
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Re: Radiation?
No DEFINATELY not. Unless he had a nuclear medicine scan he is not radioactive. I am a Nuclear Medicine Technologist so I am pretty well educated in that area. You are fine and so is baby!
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| Posted 7/22/08 8:52 PM |
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wannabemom
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Re: Radiation?
not at all....
Your DH was merely exposed to X rays (CT scan) and a strong magnetic field (MRI). Both are exactly like sunlight.... you get exposed to them, but do not absorb them or emit them at a later time... (you don't glow with sunlight at night after going to the beach in the afternoon).
As long as no one injected him with a nuclear tracer (like a nuclear stress test), he's fine. If he DID receive a nuclear tracer, he would DEFINITELY receive documents advising him on a nuclear tracer 1/2 life and probably receive a medical document stating he's radioactive so he isn't stopped while crossing a homeland security check point at a bridge or tunnel.
I had to tell my boss I was pregnant the same day I received my BFP becuase he walked over to me and said he just went through a nuclear stress test and received 2 nuclear injections  I asked him to stay away until 10 half lives passed.... (about 3 days)
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| Posted 7/22/08 9:03 PM |
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Katie111806
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Re: Radiation?
I think you are fine!  If he was a risk to others, I'm sure they would have advised him.
To the others who answered who have knowledge on the subject - if someone is undergoing radiation on a regular basis for cancer treatment, should pregnant women not be around them? (sorry to hijack Jenna!)
Thanks
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| Posted 7/22/08 9:09 PM |
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Goldi0218
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Re: Radiation?
My doc told me that I couldnt be near an x-ray (not a person who has been x-rayed) and someone who had injectable dye.
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| Posted 7/22/08 9:12 PM |
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mamallama
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Re: Radiation?
he was injected with a solution so that they can see if anything is wrong with his brain....it was like a dye or something...is that what you mean??? 
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| Posted 7/22/08 9:23 PM |
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Goldi0218
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Re: Radiation?
Posted by MrsGraz
he was injected with a solution so that they can see if anything is wrong with his brain....it was like a dye or something...is that what you mean???
My mom was due to have a stress test and I had to see her the day before because I couldnt go near her for a few days after. She would have been rendered radioactive.
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wannabemom
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Re: Radiation?
Posted by Katie111806
I think you are fine! If he was a risk to others, I'm sure they would have advised him.
To the others who answered who have knowledge on the subject - if someone is undergoing radiation on a regular basis for cancer treatment, should pregnant women not be around them? (sorry to hijack Jenna!)
Thanks
hi... it's your friendly neighborhood neuroimaging girl again......
Cancer treatment is a focused radiation beam... it is similar to a CT scan. (see my 'sunlight' example in my original post) The patient receives an intese dose where the tumor is, with the intent of basically killing those cells. but, since the beam is focussed, surrounding healthy tissue receives much lower doses and remains unharmed. The patient does not 'glow' afterwards....
The patients you SHOULD stay away for are patients receiving nuclear tracer injections (for PET imaging or nuclear stress tests). The rad they receive is usually short-lived (it decomposes to nothing in 1 (PET) to 3 (stress tests) days) but have VERY high energy levels.
As a researcher, I am trained to be very meticulous with radioactivity. I work with doses 1/1000 or less than a patient's dose and use all sorts of protection and shielding. It concerns me how it's socially acceptable for clinical rad labs let their patients loose into society in a very uninformed state. they're glowing like chernobyl and are sleeping next to their spouses, sitting for hours next to their family on the couch, and even parousing the malls in the afternoon. They are seldom told how radioactive they are, how long they'll be radioactive, or that they should avoid hanging out next to pregnant women exc....
they are only told that the dept of homeland security will stop them as terrorists if they don't carry around a form stating they just received a radioactive medical test
This is exactly what happend with my advisor the day I received my BFP. he told me he had a stress test and said 'oh but the dr's never said I couldn't be around people', I told him to pass his paperwork to me so I could look up the isotopes he received. Lo and behold, he was SUPER radioactive, shouldn't be anywhere near a tiny bean like Crumb was, and would remain radioactive for 2-3 days!
horrifying. And it took a trained researcher with years of experience (me) over 40 minutes to figure out which isotopes he received and what the risks were.... sigh....
ok, I'm off my soapbox now.....
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| Posted 7/22/08 9:42 PM |
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Goobster
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Re: Radiation?
I called my DR about this too. DH had to have a chest xray and I was worried to go near him. Both the OB and the xray tech said no worries, it is out of his body right after the xray.
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| Posted 7/22/08 10:18 PM |
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Re: Radiation?
Posted by MrsGraz
he was injected with a solution so that they can see if anything is wrong with his brain....it was like a dye or something...is that what you mean???
I don't know if they mean just the dye used for contrast on an MRI or xray. That is simply iodine, no? Can anyone answer this? Is the dye used for contrast the same as the dye used for a stress test?
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| Posted 7/22/08 10:22 PM |
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wannabemom
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Re: Radiation?
Posted by MrsGraz
he was injected with a solution so that they can see if anything is wrong with his brain....it was like a dye or something...is that what you mean???
he would definitely receive paperwork telling him he received radioactivity if he did. they frequently will administer contrast dyes to enhance images... they're not radioactive....
HTH
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| Posted 7/22/08 10:45 PM |
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kimmie
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Re: Radiation?
The dye used for CT is a contrast and not radioactive so dont be worried.
And NO not everyone receives a paper that says they have been injected with radioactivity!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Message edited 7/22/2008 10:52:34 PM.
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mamallama
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Re: Radiation?
thanks for all of the replies!! 
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| Posted 7/22/08 10:54 PM |
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wannabemom
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Re: Radiation?
Posted by kimmie
And NO not everyone receives a paper that says they have been injected with radioactivity!!!!!!!!!!!!!
really? good grief... it's even worse than I thought.
I figured since my advisor received such paperwork (including the medical letter for bridges and tunnels) that everyone did.
so people get administered stuff w/o any information on clearance or half-life
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| Posted 7/22/08 10:55 PM |
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kimmie
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Re: Radiation?
Posted by wannabemom
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And NO not everyone receives a paper that says they have been injected with radioactivity!!!!!!!!!!!!!
really? good grief... it's even worse than I thought.
I figured since my advisor received such paperwork (including the medical letter for bridges and tunnels) that everyone did.
so people get administered stuff w/o any information on clearance or half-life
Its really the same dose as you would get with an xray just in a different form. Only Suffolk county makes you give a letter stating what you were injected with and how much.. For a stress test its a 6 hour half life so its really not that bad.. Not saying I dont inform ALL of my patients about small children and pregnant women because I do but I worked my enitre pregnancy around it.. People arent educated about it so automatically people freak...
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