A lady with Crohn's told me today that I shouldn't handle or touch my son's 6mp tablets because they are very potent and radiactive as they are a leukemia drug...........well?????????
I am not a pharmacist or medical physicist, but I don't beleive the tablets are radioactive.A lady with Crohn's told me today that I shouldn't handle or touch my son's 6mp tablets because they are very potent and radiactive as they are a leukemia drug...........well?????????
This is BAD info to give out... You missed the first part of the paragraph where they state 35S-6-mercaptopurine. This is a special formulation of a drug with a radioactive sulfur isotope. S35 isotope is commonly used in TESTING formulations of drugs. Not those sold and administered to general consumers/public/patients (whatever we are....)"Radioactivity (in the form of sulfate) could be found in the urine for weeks afterwards." http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/fdaDrugInfo.cfm?archiveid=1117