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Scary But Informative

TinaLavallee
TinaLavallee
Did you know that the radiation from one CT scan is equivalent to 700 chest x-rays? Found this out when I went to the hospital emergency the other night. The Dr made a comment about how many Ct scans I have had lately and then passed this bit of info on. They thought I was having an appendicitis attack and he was hesitant to order a scan because of this.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I did hear all that. Its very scary but what are we to do. Seems like everything these days are bad for you.
PeaceN2You
PeaceN2You
There seems to be some question about exactly what the equivalent is, but no question it's a lot. I found this list of equivalents that I thought might be of interest:

100-250 chest x-rays (I expect the truth is somewhere in between this and the higher estimates)

1,400 dental x-rays

240 Five Hour flights

70,000 airport scans

19 years of smoking a pack of cigarettes a day
deleted_user
deleted_user
Yup read about it and yes scary but what are our choices. Lisa