Chest X-Ray and Pregnancy | X-Rays Effects of Pregnant Women Fetus
Question:
Are there any ill effects of Chest x-ray on one month pregnancy?
Answer:
X-rays are some time needed during the course of pregnancy to provide the doctor with important information of a woman’s condition if certain disease is suspected.
Your doctor is very well trained to determine whether the benefit of x-ray oughtweigh the risk to the fetus and to yourself.
In X-ray of chest or the upper body, radiation is not directed towards the fetus.
The risk to your baby from radiation is minimal and your doctor may treat your pregnancy just like any other pregnancy.
Medical X-rays use very small amount of radiations. Normally an unborn baby should not be exposed to radiation of more than 5 rads. Most diagnostic X-rays have much less radiation than this, and so there is less to worry.
But if you are still worried you can consult a radiation physicist who can figure out how much radiation your baby has been exposed to.
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