This might be a strange question and i don’t know if people will know the answer or not. I have recently changed jobs (Work in a hospital Lab) and one area that i work in uses very low levels of radioactive Iodine in one of the methodologies. I am just wondering if anyone knows whether of not radioactivity affects MS and if i am putting myself at risk?
What an interesting question. Are you a ‘classified person’ with all the dose monitoring and regulation etc that goes with that? If so, you will surely have had to been medically passed fit to work with ionising radiation as part of the process of becoming classified.
But if the doses you are exposed to are too small to require that you become classified, I shouldn’t think you need to worry - I have certainly never heard that very low doses, whether occupational or environmental (living in an area with lots of natural radon in the ground, for instance), do us more harm than they do the next person.
But I am only guessing. I think the thing to do is for you to have a chat with the occupational health people at your work. If you and your colleagues have an occupational exposure to ionising radiation, your Occ Health/HS&E people will certainly know all about it and be able to advise you. Or you might start with your Union’s H&S Rep.
Alison
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