Last update March 28, 2014
High Risk
We do not have alternatives for Positron Emission Tomography.
Suggestions made at e-lactancia are done by APILAM team of health professionals, and are based on updated scientific publications. It is not intended to replace the relationship you have with your doctor but to compound it. The pharmaceutical industry contraindicates breastfeeding, mistakenly and without scientific reasons, in most of the drug data sheets.
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e-lactancia is a resource recommended by Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine - 2012 of United States of America
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Radiation from a PET scan test is not higher than that from an abdominal CAT scan test.
Small quantity and short half life span of radionuclides used for this test make it safe to nurse the baby shortly after the test is done. Overall, it is safe to stop nursing for a 5 to 6 of isotope half life period which is the time require for the complete disappereance of radioactivity from the body.
Half life spans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Breastfeeding interruption time
F-18: 110 minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 hours (avoid contact for the first 4 hours)
C-11: 20 minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 hours
N-13: 10 minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 hour
O-15: 2 minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 minutes
Rb-82: 1,3 minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 minutes
Meanwhile the half life span goes by milk pumping and freezing is recommended: it is safe to use the milk after a 10 half life span period.