Re:Isolation (was Food after RAI)

[Guest guest]

Chris:

Some people are given the dose and do not have to be isolated in the

hospital at all. I've never been hospitalized longer than 2 days.

Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Part 35.75 allows the

release

of an individual who has been administered a therapeutic amount of

Iodine -

131 if the total effective dose equivalent to any other individual is

not

likely to exceed 5 millisieverts (500 millirem).

Marilyn (dx '94-pap w/lung metastases - 5 pos scans/435mCi's - scans 6 &

7 clean)

christine_stier@... wrote:

> This is a little off the subject, but I'm curious about how you had

> your RAI one day and came home the next day. Why didn't you have to

> stay in isolation for 3 days?

> --Chris

> dx 4/7/01 papilliary w/ follicular var; awaiting first RAI

>

[Guest guest]

Marilyn,

How do your numbers translate to mCi's? Is 5 millisieverts equal to

5 mCi?

--Chris

>

> > This is a little off the subject, but I'm curious about how you

had

> > your RAI one day and came home the next day. Why didn't you have

to

> > stay in isolation for 3 days?

> > --Chris

> > dx 4/7/01 papilliary w/ follicular var; awaiting first RAI

> >

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