Last update Feb. 14, 2024
Likely Compatibility
We do not have alternatives for Dotatate gallium Ga-68 , Edotreotide gallium Ga-68.
Suggestions made at e-lactancia are done by APILAM team of health professionals, and are based on updated scientific publications. It is not intended to replace the relationship you have with your doctor but to compound it. The pharmaceutical industry contraindicates breastfeeding, mistakenly and without scientific reasons, in most of the drug data sheets.
Your contribution is essential for this service to continue to exist. We need the generosity of people like you who believe in the benefits of breastfeeding.
Thank you for helping to protect and promote breastfeeding.
Dotatate gallium Ga-68 , Edotreotide gallium Ga-68 is also known as Gallium-68 (68Ga).
Dotatate gallium Ga-68 , Edotreotide gallium Ga-68 in other languages or writings:
Dotatate gallium Ga-68 , Edotreotide gallium Ga-68 belongs to this group or family:
Main tradenames from several countries containing Dotatate gallium Ga-68 , Edotreotide gallium Ga-68 in its composition:
Write us at elactancia.org@gmail.com
e-lactancia is a resource recommended by Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine - 2015 of United States of America
Would you like to recommend the use of e-lactancia? Write to us at corporate mail of APILAM
Gallium-68 (68Ga) is a radioactive isotope of gallium that emits positrons, Auger electrons, X-rays and gamma rays. It is used by labeling dotatate or edotreotide in positron emission tomography (PET) for the study of somatostatin receptor-positive neuroendocrine tumors.
Ga68 has a radioactive half-life of 68 minutes. (IAEA 2018)
Milk from nursing mothers administered Gallium-68, 4 hours later had cleared it in sufficient quantity for the infant to receive a dose of less than 1mSv. (Forwood 2016)
After administration of Ga68, a 4-hour break in lactation is recommended. (IAEA 68)
Nuclear medicine centers can measure the radioactivity of milk to determine when breastfeeding can be safely resumed. (Stabin 2000)
Adequate radiation protection procedures must be ensured so that infants of nursing mothers working in nuclear medicine centers do not receive radiation greater than 1mSv through their mothers' milk. Some directives advise that nursing mothers should not work in these facilities during the breastfeeding period.(Almén 2017).
See below the information of these related products: