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The things you need to be concerned with right now are these: first, for the first 2 days or so, your body is excreting any RAI that was not taken up in your thyroid. You needed it. Your pets don’t. Protect them from your saliva, sweat and urine (pretty easy, I’m guessing), because that’s how it is being excreted. Mostly in the urine. Secondly, you do want to limit radiation exposure to the animals. Radiation’s effects are as a result of a lifetime of accumulation, not a sudden event, but the animals are very small, and even a little exposure could be a very high level for them. Try to keep them away from your neck, specifically, for a few weeks at least, and about six feet away from you in general during these first few days. The half-life of the treatment form of RAI is 8 days, so every 8 days, the amount that’s left in your body is half what it was to start with. Calculate your dosage through these 8-day cycles, and you’ll be able to figure out when the remainder is so tiny that it’s really immeasurable. At that point you can stop worrying about keeping them away from your neck. You won’t "zap" them if you bring them close to your neck though ~ my doctor told me to think of time and distance. If it was going to be for some length of time, keep my distance. If it wouldn’t be for long, I could get close. You’ll need to manage that carefully, I know. Animals are not so easy to explain things to.
” title=”Very Happy” />yeah its so hard, they want to sit right next to me, 3 of them are rescued and having bonding issues and i keep putting htem away but with 6 its like an every minute thing! thank you for the response! i have been worried about this since they told me this morning to not be near them!
ill try my best to not kiss and cuddle my "kids"
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