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Posting for Nell:
Hi,
I have never figured out how to reply to Lactnet group, but occasionally
reply individually. I am a nurse in women’s health, IBCLC (since 1989), and
La Leche League leader. Radiation if it is in the form of and x-ray or
radiation treatment does not stay in your body. There would be no radiation in
the milk whatsoever, not even from cancer treatment doses. The mother may
feel ill, because it does kill rapidly dividing cells in the area irradiated
and there are effects from that. There is always danger with radiation
treatments that DNA will be damaged and that new cancers can arise at some
time in the future. (You have to have a future for this to happen and there
might not be a future if you don’t have the treatment---risk versus benefits
as always.) I suppose there is a very, very small theoretical risk that DNA
in milk cells could be altered, but there is also a risk from not
breastfeeding.
If a radioactive substance is injected into bloodstream, now that is
another matter altogether, but I don’t think that would be the case with this
situation.
The only other thing that would be of concern is if they were implanting
radioactive “seeds” into the area. This is not a treatment that I have
heard of being used much recently, but in the past I have heard of it for
prostate cancer and other localized tumors. In the case of implanted radioactive
devices, the mother would not be allowed contact with the baby for a
period of time, because she would be radioactive and exposing anyone with close
contact to small doses of radiation.
I attended an i-lactation breastfeeding lecture on radiation several
months back, but mostly I know this stuff from my job. Hope this helps.
Nell
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