Looking for collective wisdom and an approach We have been battling CT scan at our hospital both technicians and radiologists. They instruct mothers to "pump and dump" for 25-48 hours following Omnipaque administration, depending on dosing. According to Hale, this is not needed, listing Omnipaque, even in intravenous form as an L2. The American College of Radiologists (ACR) suggested in a publication from the 90's that this would most likely be cautiously used in breastfeeding mothers. . We have had an e-mail discussion between radiology and neonatology and lactation and we thought there was a concensus to share info with mother and allow her to make the informed choice to pump or not after sharing as specific info as we have. Sadly, we seem to agree to disagree and moms are left to decide what they are going to do. The half life of this drug is 2 hours and the transfer inot human milk is less than 0.5% - I don't have the specifics re: this in front of me, but did review it earlier today. Again with the new focus on ethics, I hate to contradict and have encouraged patients involved to contact the baby's pediatrician for a final OK if they are receiving conflicting info. Does anyone have any experience with any poor outcomes with this contrast agent and any specific info on any real hazards to the infant? As a former NICU nurse, I've see this agent be given to neonates for contrast as well, so what is the exact issue, other than "sacrificing breastfeeding on the altar of ignorance", as I've heard Linda Smith say more that once! Today we had a mom refuse her scan, because she was given this info, and then they adjusted their advice based on her extreme desire to keep nursing after a very difficult start while still in the hospital. I was so proud of her for being empowered enough to speak up for her and her baby. So many other mothers would never do this... again, mothers should not have to fight so hard to breastfeed babies! LuAnn Smith RN, BSN, IBCLC _________________________________________________________________ See what you’re getting into…before you go there http://newlivehotmail.com/?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_viral_preview_0507 *********************************************** Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html Mail all commands to [log in to unmask] To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask]) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask]) To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]