This category covers
radiation exposure while pregnant or trying to conceive, effects of radiation on the embryo/fetus, radiation effects on children, flying while pregnant, etc.
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Questions in this Category Are in the Following Subcategories: |
• Conception after exposures |
• Exposures not directly to embryo/fetus |
• Exposures to embryo/fetus |
• Flying |
• Power lines, magnets, computers, airport screening, cell phones, radar |
• Proximity to radioactive persons |
• Radiation workers/medical technicians |
• Radiation effects to embryo/fetus |
•  Miscellaneous |
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Conception after exposures |
Q4761 |
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Held child during x rays |
Q7790 |
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Husband had CT |
Q10503 |
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Will preconception x-ray procedures make me infertile or cause birth defects? |
Q10899 |
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Lead apron at veterinary clinic |
Q11766 |
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C-arm exposure and sterility |
Q11869 |
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Can I get pregnant after many abdominal x rays? |
Q11871 |
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Would iodine-131 kill sperm? |
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Exposures not directly to embryo/fetus |
Q1327 |
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Chest x ray and pregnancy |
Q1329 |
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Dental x rays and pregnancy |
Q5016 |
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Trisomy 18 |
Q6119 |
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Exposure from son's CT scan |
Q7201 |
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Held son during his x rays |
Q8394 |
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Mammogram and pregnancy |
Q10300 |
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Is a chest x ray during pregnancy dangerous? |
Q11461 |
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Brain CT scan while pregnant |
Q12647 |
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Can dental x rays harm my unborn child? |
Q13192 |
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Pregnancy and full body scan with radioiodine |
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Exposures to embryo/fetus |
Q7250 |
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Iodine-123 scan and pregnant |
Q10764 |
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Nd:YAG laser |
Q11738 |
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CT scan to lower abdomen |
Q11872 |
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Pregnant and may have exposed the baby |
Q12526 |
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Going through vehicle scanner when pregnant |
Q12941 |
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CT exam at 12 weeks pregnant |
Q14012 |
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American Association of Physicists in Medicine position on fetal shielding |
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Flying |
Q5964 |
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Pregnancy and flying |
Q8772 |
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Conceive after 40 hours of flying |
Q9417 |
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Full-body scanners |
Q9686 |
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Flying from the United Kingdom to Poland |
Q11481 |
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Flying globally and cross-country |
Q11747 |
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Ultraviolet exposure while flying |
Q11887 |
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Flying while pregnant: Effects on brain |
Q12743 |
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Many flights while pregnant |
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Power lines, magnets, computers, airport screening, cell phones, radar |
Q1408 |
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Using a computer while pregnant |
Q4395 |
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Laptop |
Q4512 |
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Rise in autism |
Q6568 |
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Pregnant and concerned about radiation exposure from computer |
Q6609 |
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Nonionizing radiation |
Q11343 |
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Human screening tools at airports |
Q11408 |
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Exposure to a radar gun |
Q11725 |
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Will working with an MRI affect pregnancy? |
Q12180 |
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Wearing Apple Watch during pregnancy |
Q13321 |
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Exposure to RF while pregnant |
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Proximity to radioactive persons |
Q5607 |
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Mother to receive radiation treatment |
Q6116 |
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Caretaker of radioactive patient |
Q7194 |
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Near patient who had bone scan |
Q11187 |
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Radiation exposure in waiting room and from family member |
Q11274 |
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Family member getting PET scan |
Q11454 |
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Pregnant and around person who had stress test |
Q11523 |
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Dose to physician's fetus from bone scan patient |
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Radiation workers/medical technicians |
Q641 |
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Should a pregnant radiographer stand out during fluoroscopy? |
Q1149 |
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Pregnant operating room nurse |
Q1167 |
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Vulnerability of embryo |
Q2674 |
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Cardiac lab |
Q2736 |
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Pregnant cardiologist |
Q4115 |
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Pregnant operating room staff |
Q6118 |
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Surgeon doing fluoroscopy and using technetium |
Q7189 |
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Thyroid scan |
Q8789 |
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Dentist holds film in patient's mouth |
Q10924 |
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Working floor above CT scanner |
Q11436 |
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Nurse holding babies while they get x rays |
Q11446 |
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Veterinary technician handling radioactive cats |
Q11937 |
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Work in hospital |
Q12317 |
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Radiation dose limits while pregnant |
Q12560 |
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Pregnant staff member at veterinary facility |
Q12688 |
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Using handheld dental x-ray unit |
Q13237 |
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Potential impact to offspring from historic exposure to Ra-226 |
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Radiation effects to embryo/fetus |
Q9691 |
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Risks to my baby |
Q11549 |
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Risk to fetus from mother’s CT scan |
Q11848 |
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Radium spa and pregnant |
Q13235 |
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Risk to my baby from PET CT scan |
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Miscellaneous |
Q7356 |
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Pregnant and work with lasers in a medical skin clinic |
Q7537 |
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Dermatologist using laser |
Q11157 |
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Use of fluorescent microscopy |
Q11765 |
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Can UVC rays harm my baby? |
Q12109 |
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Iodine-131 body scan before getting pregnant |
Q12110 |
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Interrupt breast-feeding because of indium-111 |
Q12247 |
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Does receiving radiation after pregnancy affect breast-feeding? |
Q12524 |
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Entering a room when pregnant after x ray taken |
Q12605 |
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Pelvis CT scan and trying to conceive |
Q13003 |
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Laser usage during pregnancy |
Q13196 |
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Effects of skin-tightening treatments on stomach |