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Radioactive dye side effects

A 34-year-old member asked:
Dr. George Horng
Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Critical Care 22 years experience
should not: The radioactive dye should be sterile and not cause infection. However, if the site of injection is not cleaned properly or the IV used for the inject... Read More
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A 58-year-old female asked:
Dr. Hiep Le
Dr. Hiep Leanswered
Nephrology and Dialysis 44 years experience
Yes, it is a safe test, the amount of exposed radiation with the test is negligible and immediate side effect after drinking the formula is rare.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
Dr. Dariush Vaziri
A Verified Doctoranswered
Breast Surgery 49 years experience
No: There is very little radiation with esentinel node biopsy which does not exhibit any systemic side effects. But since you are usually undergoing gener... Read More
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Dr. Sean Canale
Breast Surgery 32 years experience
No: The tracer is technitium sulfa colloid. Unless one has an allergic reaction is it innocuous.
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Dr. Richard Orr
Surgical Oncology 46 years experience
No: The dose of radiation is so low that preganant women scrub on these cases routinely.
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A 60-year-old female asked:
Dr. Alan Feldman
43 years experience
Very few: For the amount of radioactive iodine used to test for thyroid problems, there are no precautions other than to make sure that you are not pregnant (un... Read More
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A female asked:
Dr. Ed Friedlander
Pathology 46 years experience
Verify this: Bone scan isotope isn't going to concentrate in breast and it doesn't stay around long in any case. I am thinking that perhaps it lit up your growing ... Read More
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A 35-year-old male asked:
Dr. Yash Khanna
Family Medicine 59 years experience
It does have effect : Radioactive dyes containing iodine of the iodide type can cause permanent thyroid damage and cancer. This was published id a study by dr brunelli fro... Read More
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A 31-year-old member asked:
Dr. Frederick Rupp
36 years experience
Rarely.: Rare allergies. Very rare nsf if poor kidney function.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
Dr. Heather Curry
Radiation Oncology 32 years experience
Radioactive Dyes or: 'tracers' are special dyes usually given through an IV as part of a nuclear medicine study. Tracers contain a small amount of a radioactive isotope t... Read More
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A male asked:
Dr. John Overbeck
Nuclear Medicine 28 years experience
In : In diagnostic nuclear medicine, our goal is to use the smallest amount of radioactive tracer that will give us the diagnosis. If you have ever been i... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
Dr. Heidi Fowler
Psychiatry 27 years experience
More specifics: What procedure is being done? Do you know the dye/ contrast material? If you provide us with more information via a re-submission we can give you a b... Read More
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