X-RAY DANGERS AND PROTECTION

WANT TO GET YOUR MIND BLOWN? READ THIS:

“John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., is one of the leading experts in the world in these issues. He is a nuclear physicist and a medical doctor.
The evidence presented in his book, Radiation from Medical Procedures in the Pathogenesis of Cancer and Ischemic Heart Disease, strongly indicates that over 50% of the death-rate from Cancer today, and over 60% of the death-rate from Ischemic Heart Disease today, are x-ray-induced.”

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/04/07/x-ray-part-one.aspx

STILL WANT TO GET THAT X-RAY? IS IT REALLY NECESSARY? BEFORE I GET TO SOME OF THE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO PROTECT YOUSELF FROM OVER EXPOSURE, BESIDES ABSTINENCE, CHECK OUT THE FACTS:

While doses from diagnostic and interventional radiology are very low relative to doses used for cancer therapy, diagnostic and interventional x-ray doses today are far from negligible. The widely used CT scans, and the common diagnostic examinations which use fluoroscopy, and interventional fluoroscopy (e.g., during surgery), deliver some of the largest non-therapeutic doses of x-rays. In 1993, the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation warned, appropriately, in its Annual Report:

"Although the doses from diagnostic x-ray examinations are generally relatively low, the magnitude of the practice makes for a significant radiological impact."

I BEGAN TO LOOK INTO THIS WHEN MY MOTHER CAME DOWN WITH CANCER. BY THE WAY, IT WAS PROBABLY CAUSED BY A COMBINATION OF DRUGS FOR ANOTHER CONDITION, WHICH SAVED HER LIFE BUT WITH THE PRICE OF BEING A CARCINOGEN ACCORDING TO HER PRESCRIBING MD.


EVEN A MAINSTREAM MAG LIKE TIME MAGAZINE ADMITS THE DANGER: IF THIS DOESN’T SCARE YOU WHAT WILL?

Too much radiation at one body site can cause skin conditions resembling severe burns or local cancers. Widely distributed over the body so that it penetrates much of the blood-forming marrow, excessive radiation can cause leukemia. If it strikes the gonads (ovaries or testicles), excessive radiation—i.e., by best estimate, beyond 10 roentgens*—can cause mutations in the genes, which, in turn, may mean deformities in the patient's descendants. Dangers, by sites:

Dental. The average dental X ray now delivers 5 r., but this is only to the jaw: the "scatter" radiation reaching the gonads from this is a mere .005 r. in a man and .001 r. in a woman. It would thus take 2,000 X rays to deliver a presumably damaging 10 r. to a man's gonads. Even so, notes the Journal of the American Dental Association, the currently used 5-r. doses are unnecessary. In the same issue, Radiologist Lewis E. Etter of Pittsburgh tells dentists how (by using higher voltages, better filters, faster films, shorter exposures) they can cut down the total radiation used in each exposure to a piddling .1 r. The National Bureau of Standards has developed another way to reduce X-ray exposures: a panoramic machine (see cut) which photographs the entire mouth with a single, sharply focused exposure instead of 14 separate plates.

Chest. The conventional shot at a 6-ft. range on a film 14 by 17 in. delivers .06 to .1 r. to the chest, about .001 r. to the gonads. At the 24-in. ranges used in mass chest surveys, the dosages go as high as 2 r. to the chest, but the scatter to the gonads is scarcely increased. But fluoroscopy, in which the image is viewed instantaneously on a screen, takes longer, may entail 3 to 10 r. per minute to the chest and .1 to .4 r. per minute to the gonads.

Prenatal. X rays of pregnant women may endanger the fetus. Oxford University researchers report that among the mothers of British children who had died of leukemia X rays of the pelvis during pregnancy (necessarily exposing the entire fetus to radiation) had been twice as common as among the mothers of other children. This was no conclusive finding, but a warning flag against haphazard X rays of the pregnant.

Arms & Legs. X rays of limbs to detect possible fractures, or arthritic deposits in joints, usually require only short exposures. The radiation used is not enough to damage bone marrow, is far enough from the gonads for safety.
Therapeutic. Although the amounts of radiation required in medical treatment, e.g., for cancer, average much higher than those in diagnosis, they are generally safer. Treatment usually is given by a radiologist who uses elaborate shielding to protect parts of the body not intended to be irradiated. In some cases, radiologists take a calculated risk of damaging some healthy tissues for the sake of attacking the cancer and prolonging life.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,862407,00.html


YOU HAVE GOT TO READ THIS:

“X-rays and other tests that involve the use of barium meals and dyes may not be as safe and routine as your doctor would have you believe.
Ten cases of pulmonary oedema - where fluid collects in the lungs - have been reported to the UK drug regulators following one of the tests, and three people died from the reaction. In all, it is estimated that 0.04 per cent of these tests can result in a serious reaction, although up to 10 per cent report mild effects, such as a heat sensation.” TO SEE THE COMPLETE CHILLING STORY:

http://www.wddty.com/03363800371090024820/hidden-dangers-of-routine-x-ray-tests.html

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SOME OTHER SOURCES:

Evidence for a lack of DNA double-strand break repair in human cells exposed to very low x-ray doses.

X-ray danger: get the big picture: your cumulative radiation dose is growing. Do you really need to add to it?