How harmful is CT scan for children?

CT is a method used by hospitals to examine the human body. CT is taken through lasers, while X-rays, as a type of radiation, have very high radiation and harm to the human body. Because X-rays can penetrate people's bodies, the radiation received from CT is much higher than that from X-rays, especially for children, the harm will be greater. So how harmful is it for children to have a CT scan?

CT scan has a certain impact on the fetus. CT uses electronic computer technology and cross-sectional projection to allow X-rays to penetrate tissues in each axial layer of the human body. It has a high density resolution and is 10 times stronger than ordinary X-rays. Therefore, a CT scan exposes you to much more X-rays than an X-ray, and it is much more harmful to the human body. The above situation does not occur in everyone and varies from person to person. If you do not want to keep the fetus, you should terminate the pregnancy in the near future. If you want to keep the fetus, you can do special examinations during pregnancy and delivery, such as Down syndrome screening at 14-20 weeks of pregnancy, and three-dimensional or four-dimensional color ultrasound for fetal malformation screening at 23-26 weeks of pregnancy. If the test results are all high-risk, further amniocentesis or cord blood examination should be performed.

A brain CT scan will not affect your baby's brain development. Theoretically, the X-rays used in CT scans will have certain biological effects on the human body and may cause certain damage to the body's cells. However, for a single CT scan, the radiation dose used is very low and completely within the safety range. It is not enough to have any impact on the baby's health. Please don't worry too much about this, my friend! CT radiation is instantaneous and short-term, and the baby is only exposed occasionally. This small radiation dose is not enough to affect the baby's health.