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Pregnant women, children, teenagers and mobile phones
We all know that mobile phones are wireless devices. Quite a few of us are aware that mobile phones emit pulsed wireless radiation and even more of us acknowledge that this electromagnetic radiation is harmful to our health.
More and more studies are being carried out by research teams, in different countries, which associate wireless radiation with cancer development.
In one of the most recent studies, conducted by L. Lloyd Morgan and his colleagues and published in the Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure on July 15 2014, provides evidence that embryos and young children are more at risk.
This occurs because absorption of radiation by children is larger, due to the following factors:
- Their brain has more extensive absorptive capacity for radiation. It has been calculated that a child’s brain absorbs twice as much radiation as an adult’s. It is terrifying, but there are studies which report that children’s bone marrow absorbs microwave radiation (that is radiation derived from wireless devices) tenfold in comparison to adults.
- Their skull has thinner walls.
- They have less body volume, compared to adults.
So, what can we do in order to use these devices as safely as possible?
Morgan and his associates recommend:
- Maintain a safety distance from the ear of at least 15cm. This distance reduces the risk by 10.000 times.
- Even when we are not using it, our phone releases radiation. This means that we must keep it at a safe distance from our bodies.
- Wireless devices must be kept far away from the pregnant woman’s abdomen. When she is breast-feeding, she must not talk on the mobile phone or house wireless telephone. Moreover, the wireless baby intercom must not be placed in the cradle.
- Children and adolescents must be taught not to keep their wireless devices in the space where they are sleeping. According to Pew Research Centre, 75% of children who own a mobile phone, keep it under their pillow.
- Boys must not place their mobile phone in the front pocket of their trousers because this may affect the sperm, after adolescence.
- Girls must keep the devices away from their breasts.
- The router for the wi-fi must be kept at a spot where family members, especially children, do not frequent.
Maintain a safety distance from the ear of at least 15cm. This distance reduces the risk by 10.000 times.
The authors emphasise that there is a large research literature that associates several brain cancers to the use of mobile phones. They note that, even though the evidence is not conclusive, the average time needed for the disease to present after exposure to a carcinogen, is 3 or more decades.
