I found out I was pregnant 5 days after doing a chest X-ray

If a chest X-ray is taken, there will be radiation, which may have an impact on the growth and development of children. In this case, if you want to have this child, you need to have regular prenatal checkups and observe the changes in the child's growth at any time.

As X-ray equipment continues to improve, the amount of radioactivity used is getting smaller and smaller, and a chest X-ray examination usually takes less than a dozen seconds. The damage to the body is very slight and can be basically ignored.

However, because children are at the peak of development, their cell division is active and much more sensitive than adults, and the younger they are, the more sensitive they are (embryos are more sensitive to radiation), which can cause damage to some body cells. If these damaged cells cannot repair themselves (or abnormal repair), they will immediately remain in the body, like "bombs", and when the immune system is weakened or there are carcinogenic factors, they will begin to replicate crazily and become a cancer. Therefore, the more frequently radioactive tests are performed, the greater the chance of causing cancer. Long-term effects could be triggered decades later after its radioactivity is examined.

Lung examination should not be included as a new item in routine physical examinations (such as physical examinations) for children and adolescents. Children should be examined by X-ray as much as possible.

Try to use X-ray examination instead of chest X-ray. The voltage and current required for chest X-ray are much weaker than those for X-ray. Due to the low intensity, radiation cannot penetrate the body as quickly as in X-ray, so the time it takes to pass through the body is relatively longer, and the amount absorbed by the body is also greater. Moreover, the image quality and accuracy of chest X-rays are not as good as those of films. However, chest X-rays have the advantages of simple equipment, convenient operation, low cost (usually 6 to 1 yuan per time), and immediate conclusion.