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.

Plus search for the latest information from the American College of
Radiology - Manual on Contrast Media (version 5, 2004) Administration of
Contrast Medium to Breast-feeding Mothers . 
There are many sites referring to this document. Plus here is something
from Jack Newman
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1952588
I hope this is of some help.
Gwen

Gwen Moody
CNC Postnatal Care
Westmead Hospital
PO Box 533 Wentworthville 2145
Phone: 02 9845 6964, 0422212774
Fax: 02 9845 8340
Page: 02 9845 5555 - 01135
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Does anyone have experience with a patient having a VQ scan and
breastfeeding.  This mom was readmitted to the ED with question of a
pulmonary embolism.
 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?  Thank you.
 Dana Schmidt, RN, CLC, CLE
Certified Lactation Counselor
Certified Lactation Educator



If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally
balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and
treated disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered
in quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement
of their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock
market.  The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and
the wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase
dramatically.  Women have been producing such a miraculous
substance,breastmilk, since the beginning of human existence. 
~Gabrielle Palmer

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