Re: Nurses who Breast Feed

["Jones, Pauline" <pjones@Kilcom1.UCIS.Dal.Ca>]

Had a question posed this morning by a pregnant nurse with respect to 
Iodine-131 ablation therapy patients generally receiving >100 mCi. We 
do not allow pregnant nurses to attend these patients , however she 
wondered about attending them when breast feeding. In Nova Scotia 
female workers generally take 6 months maternity leave so this has 
not been an issue. This nurse (now in her 5th pregnancy) breast feeds 
for two years. I don't see any problem as long as she follows good 
universal precautions, but I would like to get some feedback from 
other health care institutions. Could be she wants an easy out from 
dealing with these patients!!!

Pauline Jones
pjones@kilcom1.ucis.dal.ca