Pam, you wrote that the nuclear medicine department recommended 48 hours of
"pumping and dumping" when this isotope is used.  Mothers do not need to "dump"
their milk when having these tests.  The milk can be stored and used after
the time period (half life) where the isotope has decomposed, just as it does
within our bodies.
I meet with our nuclear medicine dept. and they were the ones that gave me
this information.  I then passed it on to Tom Hale.
I do not have the information with me at this time but when we send mothers
for a lung scan they use a Tc99m but I do not know if it is Mebrofenin.  We
have the mothers pump for 24 hours even though it is probably safe by 12 hours.
Ann Perry RN, IBCLC
Boston, MA

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