Mary has a Mag 3 Scan

To help, Mary would have to lie very very still on a big couch while a big camera took some pictures. Sometimes there were some soft straps on the couch which they would wrap around children to remind them to stay still. Mum explained that this was a bit like an astronaut who has to wear straps and keep still for a while. As soon as the pictures had been taken, Mary and her Mother would be able to go home. Mary liked the idea about astronauts so much that she went off to play a game about travelling in space.

The next morning Mary was a bit worried and she asked Mum to explain everything again. She felt better after listening again and having a few cuddles. She even began to look forward to playing astronauts.

When she arrived at the ward the nurse wanted to weigh her so she went with the nurse and stood on some scales to see how much she weighed. She also had her height measured. Next was her blood pressure. Mary remembered this from her last visit to the ward. To do her blood pressure, the nurse wrapped a band of cloth around Mary’s arm. This was attached to a machine which blew air into the band and squeezed her arm quite tightly. It then let the air out again and then some numbers appeared on the machine, which the nurse wrote down. Last of all she said that they needed to test Mary’s wee so next time she went to the toilet she had to do it into a cardboard container that the nurse gave her.

NKF Controlled Document No. 108, Mary has a Mag 3 Scan - 3, written 31 January 2007. Last reviewed 3 May 2011.

Content compiled by members of the Children’s Renal & Urology Unit, QMC Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals.

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