MRI Safe For Pregnant Women, Not Encouraged By Studies, Here's Why

Pregnant women often worry if medical tests, especially magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is safe for their unborn child. For they firmly believe that it might hurt their child's brain especially through radiation. Now, research shows that there is no significant harm in the baby after they have conducted the survey.

Assumingly, MRI is safe for the unborn child during the second and third trimester as it was prescribed by the doctors if it is really necessary. Yet, it has not been proven if it is really safe for the grown up years for the child. Thus, researchers conducted a survey to prove if MIR is really safe for pregnant women, reported by Tech Times.

Experts from St. Michaels Hospital in Toronto Canada led by Joel G. Ray M.D. organize a study to reveal if the MIR is safe for both mother and babies. The team survey and analyzed the data with over one million pregnant women where the mother delivered the baby at 39 weeks on average between April 2003 and March 2015. They compared women who did not undergo MIR during their first trimester and women who underwent MIR. For the women who undergo MIR experts followed up their kids up to four years of age.

According to Health Day.com,  Dr. Joel Ray said, "Having an MRI at the earliest stages of pregnancy does not seem to alter the development of the fetus." but their research did not end there. They also compared the effects of contrast agent gadolinium injected to pregnant women while undergoing the MIR, and to those who haven't. 

The result shows that pregnant women have a higher risk of their unborn child of having a skin condition. Though studies show that gadolinium has a low number of problems doctors does not recommend unless it is really necessary. The result was published in Journal of the American Medical Association.