Radiation and baby

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Beatmon
Beatmon Member Posts: 1,562
edited January 2018 in Radiation Therapy - Before, During, and After

Asking for a friend. She is about to start radiation. Will she need to be “quarantined “ from baby or is she able to continue actively taking care of baby

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  • gb2115
    gb2115 Member Posts: 1,894
    edited January 2018

    She will be fine, no worries. Tell her to snuggle that baby! Think of it more like being microwaved, rather than walking around radioactive. When you microwave food, it's cooked, you don't have leftover microwave rays lingering in your Lean Cuisine.

    There is a type of radiation where they leave a seed in your breast, so that's one that needs to quarantined. But I think they put you in a hospital room and quarantine you for that type of radiation, so she would know about that.


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  • Cpeachymom
    Cpeachymom Member Posts: 518
    edited January 2018

    I second gb, I have a one year old and was told no worries. It’s more like a powerful X-ray machine, it doesn’t leave you radioactive

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  • ShetlandPony
    ShetlandPony Member Posts: 4,924
    edited January 2018

    Yes, if there are any radioactive "seeds" implanted, then the baby needs to be kept away for a certain period of time. But if it is standard whole breast radiation (typically five days per week for five or six weeks) then the patient is not radioactive and presents no danger to the baby.

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