How to Prepare for a Mammogram - Mary lou beshears breast care center

This is the Memorial Health System Podcast Network well as far as preparation we tell most women best thing to do is to schedule an mamagram at the time of month where their *** are least tender uh... and uh... the second thing is that uh... you wanna avoid any kind of deodorants in the arm pit areas because the aluminum silicates that are the active agent in uh... and deodorants will show up a little tiny staple box that look just like calcification on a mama-gram so uh... so very much want to avoid that in fact i'd recommend that they you take a shower the morning your going to have a mamagram, soap up really good make sure there is no residual deodorant that might show up as a calcification what would happen we get call back for some additional views probably the little things that you thought were calcifications would be different position and you would recognize that there probably on the scim so those two things are good to avoid the time when the *** are particularly sensitive avoid something on the skin surface, oils anything that might produce and artifact this was brought to you by the Memorial Health System Podcast Network Memorialhealthsystem.com