You're welcome, Judy. This is one of the subjects where both of my worlds
(nuclear safety and breastfeeding) come together. I don't like to toot my
ow horn (or beat my own drum as we say around here in Spanish) but I was
the lecturer in iLactation :-)
Veronica
3. radiation (2)
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> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:23:41 -0500
> From: Judy LeVan Fram <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: radiation
>
> Thanks Veronica,... the things no one w/could tell us 27 years ago...:)
>
> Judy
>
>
> In a message dated 11/18/2013 4:30:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
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> External irradiation has no effect whatsoever on the milk.
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> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 20:18:51 -0500
> From: Judy LeVan Fram <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: radiation
>
> 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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