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Re: X-rays during early pregnancy...From: Lynn D. Montgomery, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)Thu, 30 Mar 2000 05:16:55 -0600 (CST)
At Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Casey wrote: > >I am wondering about the effects of X-rays to first trimester babys... I >hurt my back on the first day of the new year.. ended up in the >hospital for it.. i told them it was possible that i was pregnant... >but not likley... so they said they would do a preg test before >x-raying my back. for some reason they bypassed the preg test and went >ahead with the x-ray. and then that night i found out i was pregnant.. >i asked the doc about it she said i was gonna be fine and so would the >baby because it was too early in my pregnancy to cause damage. she said >that you have to be 6-8 weeks for any damage to be done... we thought i >was only a few weeks at the time... well my ultra sound last week >changed my due date so much that it seems the period i thought i had the >first week of december was actually bleeding from the baby embedding >into my uterus. Im concerned since i was in the 6-8 week window when >they did direct x-rays over my lower abdomen... what Kind of problems >could arise from this? should i be concerned? is or will the hospital be >liable for any problems to my child? dont they have to run pregnancy >tests before x-rays? there is not much literature on this subject that i >have found.. and am greatly concerned with this issue.... > >-- >Casey > Casey, If you had a standard front view and side view of the lower spine, it is not likely that the x-rays would cause any problem with the baby. That exposure is relatively minimal and within the acceptable exposure for a fetus.
-- Lynn D. Montgomery, MD Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Rocky Mountain Perinatal Center Missoula, Montana
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