Re: Nurses who Breast Feed

[Wes Van Pelt <VanPeltW@IDT.NET>]

Karin Gordon wrote:
> 
> Pauline,
> 
> I assume the ward staff caring for the I-131 therapy patients wear TLDs to measure their
> external radiation dose.  Do the nurses have access (on the ward) to a contamination
> ......snip........
> We make bioassay available to all nursing staff who wish - and after half-a dozen
> negative measurements, they are usually reassured.
> 
> Karin
> 

Radsafers, In my experience, being in the same room with a therapy dose
of radioiodine would certainly show up in someone's thyroid bioassay.  I
am very surprized that there were ANY "negative" thyroid bioassays.

I suspect that the thyroid bioassay was not very sensitive.

Regards, Wes

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