Hi Jan
You are right, I misread the section and was looking at another drug.
I apologise, it was an error.
Gwen
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Gwen said:
<<Can I suggest you go to Tom Hale's website or check his book? There
is
no need to express as the medication does not pass into the milk. As
to
the contact, if there was a risk, staff would not be allowed near the
woman after the scan.>>
Gwen, if this response (your subject line said "no subject") to Dana's
question which was:
<<There is some documentation from Hale about halting breastfeeding
for
> 2 days and others say mom can have no contact after exposure to
99mTc
> MAA. What do you recommend? Does mom have to pump and dump? Does
she
> have to avoid contact with the baby?>>
then I think it is important to reread Hale's book on this again. On
page
906 (2008) he states that Technetium (Tc-99m) is present in the milk
for at
least 15 hours to 3 days, and significant quantities have been
reported in the
thyroid and gastric mucosa of infants ingesting milk from treated
mothers.
It has a radioactive half-life of 6.02 hours. Lactation risk category
is L4,
and he suggests pumping for at least 48 hours.
Now....if you look at the charts on pages 1048 & 1049, there are a
variety
of lengths of time for pumping depending on the type of Tc-99m that is
used.
For example, Tc-99m MAA, 12.6 hours for 150 Mbq is recommended which
corresponds with what Veronica said.
However, in other places, Tom has recommended pumping for 4-5 half
lives to
have 94-97% elimination. So I'm not real sure about these two,
seemingly
conflicting statements.
Gwen, if you were talking about something else entirely, I apologize.
I
tried to figure out what medication you were talking about, but to no
avail.
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC, FILCA -- in the Chicagoland area, where we
can
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