Digital X-Ray

For all known X-ray procedures with and without contrast, if there is a chance the parent (mother) is pregnant, we ask her not to attend in the exam room, even when wearing a lead apron. If there the patient is pregnant, she should inform us before the exam, so that the radiol­ogist can contact her doctor, and ask about the possibility of performing the examination

Plain Abdomen

• A laxative one day prior to the examination
• Colonic washout with tab water on the night of the examination
• Nil orally 6 hours prior to the examination.

Plain x-ray chest and heart, plain film for salivary gland, x-ray joints, spine, panoramic dental x-ray and cephalometry, mammography galactography, fistulography

• Preparation: No.

Urinary Tract x-ray and intravenous urography (IVP)

• A laxative one day prior to the examination.
• Colonic washout with tab water on the night of the examination.
• Nil orally 6 hours prior to the examination.
• A laxative one day prior to the examination.

Ascending and micturating cystourethrography

• No special preparation is necessary for this exam; you may eat and drink normally on the day of the test. It is very important that you tell your doctor and the radiology department if your child has ever had any heart problems, even a slight heart murmur. If there is a heart con­dition, your child must be given medicine before we start the test. We also need to know if your child is allergic to anything, especially latex (plastic) products.

Hysterosalpingiography preparation

• Fasting 6 hours before examination.

Barium Swallow, Barium Meal, Barium meal and follow through

• Nil orally for 8 hours prior to the examination.
• No smoking on the day of examination. 

Barium enema

• Low residue diet for 3 days prior to the examination
• On the day prior to the examination: Plenty of fluids
• Low residue diet
• A laxative 30 min before breakfast and 2 hours after lunch (‘Picolax’ 20 drops on half glass of water or 4 tab of ‘Boldolaxin’)
• High colonic washout with 2 liters tap water on the evening
• On the day of the examination: high colonic washout with tap water 3 hours prior to the examination