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Iodine-131 therapy is given on a outpatient basis to patients
with
hyperthyroidism.
According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Monmouth
Medical Center is required by law to provide you with written
instructions on actions recommended to ensure that exposure
of other individuals to Iodine-131 is as low as is reasonably
achievable, particularly in cases when the total effective
dose equivalent to any other individual is likely to exceed
100 mRem. According to predetermined calculations performed
by our medical physicist, these instructions are only needed
if the administered dose is greater than 12 millicuries.
The basic principles of radiation protection involve time,
distance and shielding. In the first 24 hours after administration,
you are advised not to spend more than six hours next to
any one individual if the distance between you and the individual
is less than 1 meter.
For women who are breastfeeding, you will be instructed
to discontinue breast feeding permanently.
No other precautions are necessary.
, please contact our medical
physicist at 732-923- 6811.
Click
here for the informational brochure (pdf),
available as a PDF (portable document format) file.
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