Fluorography with breastfeeding

Fluorography is a common method for diagnosing diseases of the chest and bone system. With breastfeeding, fluorography is allowed, but you do not need to do it without weighty reasons - just for prevention. It is better to postpone it until cessation of lactation. Fluorography has a negative effect on the entire body, so it should only be done according to the doctor's indications.

When breastfeeding can pass a fluorography?

Indication for fluorography in lactation is:

• contact with a patient with tuberculosis or with a person who has concerns about his presence;
• positive Mantoux test in people with whom you are contacting;
• the presence of relatives who had recently had tuberculosis;
• stay in a region where there is a high circulation of tuberculosis.

How does a nursing mother prepare for fluorography?

If there is a reasonable need for this survey, you need to follow some recommendations to reduce the negative impact.

Before the procedure, you should express the milk and keep it for feeding after passing the fluorography. After the picture is taken, again express the milk so that it does not get to the baby. Feed in pre-packaged breast milk. Some doctors recommend to stop breastfeeding after fluorography for two days.

What kind of fluorography to choose?

There are two different methods for carrying out a fluorographic study - film and digital. Before passing the procedure, specify which fluorography you will be given.

With film fluorography, the image is photographed on a special fluorescent screen using a matrix. In the digital method, the chest is scanned by a fan-shaped X-ray beam. With this method, you will get a much smaller dose of radiation, but it will take more time.

Fluorography to nursing mothers in the hospital

In most maternity homes, young mothers are faced with the fact that on the third or 2nd day after childbirth, they are all driven (driven) to Fluorography. At the same time, they say that without this examination the mother and the child from the hospital will not be discharged. Of course, this is all very unpleasant. Doctors are simply reinsured, sometimes forgetting to warn that after such a survey you need to refrain from breastfeeding and express milk.

From fluorography during breastfeeding can be refused in writing, taking responsibility for the consequences. And this does not affect the discharge process - you have no right to keep in the hospital, especially not to give the child. Such horrors are usually recounted for the fearful intimidation of already distraught mothers.