What is the safe dose of x-ray radiation in a day?
So you are saying you had three x-ray exposures total? Usually we do a PA (with your chest against a board) and a lateral (side view). You had those, then had to have one of them repeated? I can tell you that chest x-rays use one of the lowest doses of radiation out there. A normal, two view chest x-ray is the equivalent of about 10 days of living on earth, in terms of radiation exposure. We are subjected to radiation exposure from many sources just living on this planet. “The chest x-ray is one of the lowest radiation exposure medical examinations performed today. The effective radiation dose from this procedure is about 0.1 mSv, which is about the same as the average person receives from background radiation in 10 days.” http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm… Many patients who are hospitalized have daily chest x-rays (some of them have several chest x-rays throughout the day, actually). In the mornin
