IODO I-131

Hello everyone:

I have a question although I don't know very well if you will be able to help me ... the fact is that the Wednesday of next week and by the subject of tidoids they will ask me a tto with radioactive iodine.It is just taking a pill and this is but in the following 48 hours and considering that I am going to "emanar radioactivity" I have to have a precautionary measures such as not approaching children, or pregnant, throwing twice from the tank, not sharingtowels, sheets ...... try not to be very close to people and avoid physical contact ..... total that I have told my husband that he goes to his mother's house and that he takes Nustra Pascota(Dwarf bunny) In case flies.The fact is that I do not know what to do with the bomb (I see Medtronic), because I know that to make radiographs, tac ect ..... we have to remove it but in this case ........ I do not know whatI have to do ..... my educator is not clear and in Medtronic they told me they would call me and that was a month ago ........
Some of you have passed something similar ..... ??????AND

Hi Virginia:
Are they going to give you outpatient treatment (you're going early, they give you the pill, you wait a few hours and throughout the morning they are discharged) or are you going to have hospital admission treatment?
I ask this because it depends on treatment is one dose or another and the guidelines to follow are different.

Well, in theory I have been told that this in the Med. Nuclear consultation at 9 on an empty stomach and that I am not admitted.I don't know if I will have to be there for a few hours ... or they will give me the pill and that's it but anyway I go home, they don't enter me.They have given me a brochure with the precaution and hygiene measures to follow .... ect and already.Anyway as a job for the public ... I am going to stay at home for a couple of days in case the flies ...... We are also in the company and do not know if there is any pregnant or notAnd my neighborhood neighbor has a month and a half baby .... Since they don't put me in the work ....... I stay at home and it's already .....

And what is your illness?Hyper or hypothyroidism?My mother has hyperthyroidism but at the moment they have not told him anything about that treatment, they have only sent some pills that have to be taken every day ...

All the best.

Well, hyperthyroidism produced X Serious Basedow, what happens is that I debuted in 2004 and this is the 3rd time that appears to me and how I am preparing the subject to be a breast, the endo recommended me definitive.As my doctor is not very in favor of operating 8 neither do I) offered me the possibility of doing it through the iodine even if it is a little longer and tedious than with the intervention.

What they are going to put on is an outpatient treatment (the radionuclide dose is lower than the one that would put you in hospital admission).
If you have been given a brochure with the guidelines to follow during those two days, pay attention to the brochure.
It is not necessary for your husband or your pet to leave but if you have to keep in mind that during the 2 days following the taking of the pill, at a greater distance with the rest of the people better (the distance decreases as the days go by the days; the same day that they give you the pill and the next are the most important).
You will be a good time in the waiting room of patients injected with nuclear medicine so avisals that you are diabetic (for being fasting especially).
The bomb:
From what I have read the catheter and the needle are usually changed every 3DIAS, right?
Well, I advise you to put it new to you the day you go to give you the treatment and when you have to change it, the 2 days of the highest dose of I131 will have passed.
When you take it off, the dressing that is attached to the skin could have some radioactive contamination but it will be almost underestimated so you can discard it as you normally do (the dose decays depending on the time that is why it must be almost unrestrazable).
Any questions you have, you can ask the workers of the radiophysics and radiological protection (which I suppose there will be in the hospital or at least there should be).
All the best

Hello, I have not gone through anything similar, but my sister was operated by some polyps that came out in her throat ... but well I would give you a new advice and that I do I carry the bomb I see and ifYou read the manual I think something about the dangers of radioactivity speaks, my advice is that you are a few days with the bolis (like when you go to the beach) and then return with the pump, in case they affect the radiation to it.A hug and encouragement that everything goes well: P

The bolis are not recommended (as long as you can carry the pump) because the needles must be discarded in a special container to let them decline for a while (container I suppose, you will not have).
The pump should not be carried with direct radiation beams (linear accelerators, CT, and similar - people disconnect them during the minutes that treatment or study lasts).
If your endocrine and educator have no idea, it is best to ask the people of the Radiological Protection Service of the hospital to go.
All the best

@virginia you can use the pump with traquility.
The day you go to nuclear medicine, eat it to the TSID.But you don't need to take it off.
In Reso it must be removed because it can be dangerous by the magnet ... in RX it causes artifacts and hinders diagnosis ...
It is simply that.
The radiation that will administer to you is minimal, in fact or require any income.
Follow the measures that advise you so that the decay of the residue, but be calm.
What's right!