{"id":2432,"date":"2011-04-25T15:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/radiation\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T19:08:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T19:08:24","slug":"radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/radiation\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs and Symptoms of Acute Radiation Sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"99c380e4b4a7b96c35d7ddf7dcb434e8\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- MC 2019- Horizontal -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0127150553352455\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3806776041\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Acute radiation sickness can be categorized into three phases: prodrome, latency, and illness. The Table, summarizes the constellation of hematologic, gastrointestinal, and neurologic symptoms, along with the time to onset and dose dependence, associated with each of these phases.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Signs and Symptoms of Acute Radiation Sickness in the Three Phases after Exposure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong> Prodrome, According to Exposure Level<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong> Latency\u2020<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong> Illness\u2021<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mild (1 to 2 Gy)<br \/>\nVomiting; onset, 2 hr<\/td>\n<td>Duration, 21\u201335 days; lymphocyte count, 800\u20131500\/mm<sup>3<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>Fatigue, weakness; mortality, 0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Moderate (2 to 4 Gy)<br \/>\nVomiting, mild headache; onset, 1\u20132 hr<\/td>\n<td>Duration, 18\u201335 days; lymphocyte count,<br \/>\n500\u2013800\/mm3<\/td>\n<td>Fever, infections, bleeding, weakness, epilation; mortality, &lt;\/=50%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Severe (4 to 6 Gy)<br \/>\nVomiting, mild diarrhea, moderate headache, fever; onset, &lt;1 hr<\/td>\n<td>Duration, 8\u201318 days; lymphocyte count,<br \/>\n300 to 500\/mm<sup>3<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>High fever, infections, bleeding, epilation; mortality, 20\u201370%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Very severe (6 to 8 Gy)<br \/>\nVomiting, severe diarrhea, severe headache, high fever, altered consciousness; onset, &lt;30 min<\/td>\n<td>Duration, &lt;\/=7 days; lymphocyte count, 100 to 300\/mm<sup>3<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>High fever, diarrhea, vomiting, dizziness, disorientation, hypotension; mortality, 50\u2013100%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Lethal (&gt;8 Gy)<br \/>\nVomiting, severe diarrhea, severe headache, high fever, unconsciousness; onset, &lt;10 min<\/td>\n<td>No latency; lymphocyte count, 0 to 100\/mm<sup>3<\/sup><\/td>\n<td>High fever, diarrhea, unconsciousness;<br \/>\nmortality, 100%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\u2020 Lymphocyte counts in the latency phase represent the range of values that may be seen 3 to 6 days after radiation exposure.<br \/>\n\u2021 Mortality estimates are for patients who do not receive medical intervention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Christodouleas JP, Forrest RD, Ainsley CG, Tochner Z, Hahn SM, Glatstein E. Short-Term and Long-Term Health Risks of Nuclear-Power-Plant Accidents. N Engl J Med. 2011 Apr 20.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/21506737\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Champlin RE, Kastenberg WE, Gale RP. Radiation accidents and nuclear energy: medical consequences and therapy. Ann Intern Med. 1988 Nov 1;109(9):730-44.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/3056171\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Medline]<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Diagnosis and treatment of radiation injuries. Safety series no. 2. Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency, 1998. (http:\/\/www-pub.iaea.org\/MTCD\/publications\/PDF\/P040_scr.pdf)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Created: Apr 25, 2011<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508],"tags":[231,230,50,1225,1224,1223,1222,1221,690,717],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radiology","tag-acute","tag-aguda","tag-enfermedad","tag-radiacion","tag-radiation","tag-sickness","tag-signos","tag-signs","tag-sintomas","tag-symptoms"],"modified_by":"Guillermo Firman","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9336,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/9336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalcriteria.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}