Should people on chemo stay away from pets?!

The radiation a person goes through is where they lay on a table and get radiation rays that are a little stronger than getting an xray!.
They are not anything that anyone else can be harmed by in any way!.
Chemo is where they place a needle in your arm and give the IV medications for hours or minutes depending on your cancer!. Some chemo is only a pill that you take!.

None of these can hurt animals in any way by being around the person that is going through this!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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Your pet is the threat to the patient, not the other way around!. If the patient is at your house, they should NOT come into contact with the waste products of the animal, nor should the animal lick on the patient!. Going through chemo weakens the immune system, and your pet could actually cause massive infection that could potentially be fatal!.

THe patient is NOT a risk to your pet!.

Also, there is no radiation involved in chemo!. And even if the patient was receiving radiation, its like a super duper x ray machine sort of!. They will be receiving radiation, but they dont emit it back out!. Once the machine is turned off, the radiation is gone!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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No!. There is no reason that a patient on chemo should stay away from pets!. My son was on high dose chemotherapy and his doctors allowed our two dogs to visit him in the hospital!. There were also therapy dogs that visited the childrens hospital every Wednesday!. There is no harm to the dogs or harm to the patient !. !. !. well there may be days the patient needs to be careful around pets, people and the environment when their blood counts are low !. !. but that is temporary until the counts recover!. And thats only to avoid germs that could make the patient sick!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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There is another side to this interesting question!.

In many cancer hospitals special PAT dogs are encouraged to visit, as their non-judgemental sympathy is very comforting!.

If doctors say that this is OK - let the cancer patient sit down with a dog near-by or on their lap - it is very soothing!.

Also, there is much anecdotal evidence that dogs have identified cancer sites by licking them - long before tests have confirmed this!. And dogs are trialled to detect cancer cells in samples - trouble is, training the humans to identify what the dogs are telling them takes the time!

I have written about some of the work dogs do for humans in "999 and other Working Dogs"!.
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i know that when my late-husband was trying to recuperate from the chemo- treatments that he had undergone from Leukemia, his white blood count was extremely low!.
because of that:
we could have no pets any where around the louse - even outside!.
we couldn't even have live flowers in the house,
everything was to be kept as close to "sterile" as possibleWww@Answer-Health@Com

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hi!.!.!. no!.!. the person wont affect the pets, but people on chemo have low defenses, so the pets can make them sick!. that

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