Nonsense, the mother can breastfeed immediately after the CT scan. Even
if the iodine (not radioactive) were harmful to the child, which it
isn't, 90% of it would be out of the mother's system (and therefore her
milk) within about 12 hours. We do CT scans in much younger babies.
The amount in the milk is only a tiny percentage of the dose the mother
gets.
Secondly, the decision about not nursing is strictly up to the mother,
not the people who are doing the test.
Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC