If my dad is having radiation treatment, is it ok for him to hold my 16 month ol!
Question: My sister in law told me not to let him hold the baby, b/c she says that he can receive radiation from granddad holding him. I say if this was that realistic they wouldn't let dad have visitors or leave the hospital, but I want to be sure before I go visit.
Answers: My sister in law told me not to let him hold the baby, b/c she says that he can receive radiation from granddad holding him. I say if this was that realistic they wouldn't let dad have visitors or leave the hospital, but I want to be sure before I go visit.
Usually, patients who have implanted radioactive devices for radiation therapy are not allowed visitors, or have their visitors in a very controlled setting.
You should be fine allowing your dad to hold your baby. However, you could also call the hospital floor where he is and ask to speak to his nurse. They would be able to tell you the specifics about visitors.
At times, people undergoing treatment for cancer are immune compromised. He could likely catch something from your baby more than the other way around.
Hope this helps!
If he has radiation therapy, he is not radioactive. There is no residual radioactivity. Meaning it is totally safe to hold the baby.
However, if he has radioactive implants, he will be radioactive. In that case they keep you in the hospital in an isolation unit.
I would think so. We are exposed to radiation everyday and don't even know it. When my dad went through radiation and chemotherapy we didn't go with him but we weren't told we couldn't see him. My youngest brother was in kindergarten at the time. There are certain radioactive isotopes that you should avoid contact such as patients receiving iodine. I'm assuming he is receiving radiation treatment for a cancer of some sort? Might want to call the hospital just to be sure. I help do nuclear stress testing and we tell our patients to limit their contact with small children for approx. 24 hours after their last injection but our patients are radioactive which is different than receiving radiation treatment.
Why not??
Your dad is not a radiation source!
He's just getting radiation treatments.
If you get an X ray could you hold your baby? Exactly the same principle.
My aunt had cancer and couldn't be around her own baby , because of his immunizations and risk to her compromised immune system.
Yes it's fine for him to hold your baby.
Ag, your aunt's compromised immune system will have been from chemotherapy not radiotherapy.
I wouldnt let my baby be held by a familymember who has treatment for cancer,why a baby has far less or almost none anti-body inside her/his body to fight any diseases or germs or any beams from radiation and other stuff going on in hospitals so wait till baby is bigger OR when granddad comes home...
NO NO NO it could happen..it happen with my auntie.. her kids and i could be around her b.c we're more grown up and developed but an infant's body is extremely sensitive...we could not even let the baby in the same house it was too much of a risk :.*