Ill effects of baby if mother or father is a Radiologist

 

Ill effects on foetus  if mother or father is a Radiologist ??? Questions have been raised about potential risks to children associated with parental occupational exposure to low dose radiation. A case control study by Gardner and colleagues in the area around the Sellafield Nuclear Facility in the United Kingdom found a statistically significant association between paternal preconception radiation dose and childhood leukemia risk .

A similar association had been obse4rved between paternal preconception radiation and risk in workers at the Hanford Nuclear Facility in the United States. Thr finding regarding childhood leukemia risk is a particularly contentious issues contradicting studies of the children born to atomic bomb survivors who do not show genetic effects such as increased risks for childhood cancers. A study in the vicinity of nuclear facilities in Ontario also failed to demonstrate an association between childhood leukemia risk and paternal preconceptional radiation exposure.