Does barium from CT scans make you sick?

MRI, no radiation. CT, depends on what you keep having done, but once a month for 12 months really isn't that much. We try to keep things as low as reasonably acheivable (ALARA) and still ge...

Only in extremely rare situations will the radiation from x-rays or CT scans figure into the development of cancer. An example would be a small child that had either childhood leukemia or maybe a b...

Most places have routine stuff scheduled 2-3 days in advance. If you are going in for something life threatening or atleast very serious then you may get head of the line privaledge. Unfortunatel...

i am not sure how many you can get but they are not really safe

I don't know if it is just like yours, but I had a problem of unexplained lower abdominal pain that sometimes got so bad it would make me double over and vomit. The tests never showed anythin...

hi there look the way isee it is that i have a few things that are not going the way i want it to behealth wise ,so i need to find out how /where /and if possible why ,so sometimes my only option i...

It depends on what physical problem is being investigated. If you have nonlocalized pain, or cancer, or inconclusive x-rays for an ongoing problem, the CT scan can be an invaluable diagnostic tool....

Actually there is a new type of CT that reduces the risk by 80 percent eventually these will replace the older models. A new scanner has been unveiled which can produce 3D body images of unprece...