Mobile phones: are there any health risks?

In a mat­ter of years, cel­lu­lar com­mu­ni­ca­tion has become an inte­gral part of the life of almost every mod­ern per­son. The num­ber of mobile net­work users is increas­ing dai­ly, which is caus­ing seri­ous con­cern in the med­ical com­mu­ni­ty. After all, as you know, cell phones and base sta­tions are direct sources of con­tin­u­ous elec­tro­mag­net­ic radi­a­tion (EMR), which has a neg­a­tive impact on human health. Spe­cial stud­ies by sci­en­tists have iden­ti­fied the main risk fac­tors for the use of mobile phones.

Decreased immunity

Fre­quent con­tact of a per­son with a cell phone leads to a weak­en­ing of the immune sys­tem and con­tributes to the man­i­fes­ta­tion of symp­toms of a num­ber of dis­eases, for exam­ple, veg­e­to­vas­cu­lar dys­to­nia. The lev­el of elec­tro­mag­net­ic radi­a­tion of a mobile device is much high­er than the lev­el of elec­tro­mag­net­ic radi­a­tion of a TV or com­put­er; due to the sys­tem­at­ic pres­ence of the phone near the eyes and the brain, the degree of harm­ful effects on the body increas­es many times.

Visual impairment

The results of an exper­i­ment con­duct­ed by a group of Russ­ian sci­en­tists on rats showed that the qual­i­ty of vision of rodents, due to pro­longed elec­tro­mag­net­ic effects on their bod­ies, has sig­nif­i­cant­ly decreased. For human eyes, the radi­a­tion of tele­phone trans­mit­ters is even more destruc­tive, since the body of a rat is much more endur­ing than a human.

Sleep quality disorders

In stand­by mode, the mobile device also pro­duces haz­ardous radi­a­tion. There­fore, a cell phone lying near the bed at night can have a detri­men­tal effect on the cen­tral ner­vous sys­tem, caus­ing dis­tur­bances in sleep phas­es and its rou­tine.

Sleep and memory disorders in children

The body of the child is char­ac­ter­ized by increased sus­cep­ti­bil­i­ty to EMR. Chil­dren who use cel­lu­lar com­mu­ni­ca­tions are more prone to mem­o­ry and sleep dis­or­ders than their peers who do not have their own mobile devices. Women dur­ing preg­nan­cy are also not rec­om­mend­ed to car­ry a phone with them in order to pro­tect the unborn baby from harm­ful radi­a­tion.

“Lightning rod function”

Even when turned off, the cell phone con­tin­ues to be a con­duc­tor of elec­tric­i­ty. There­fore, tak­en with you in a thun­der­storm, this device car­ries a dan­ger to life.

How to make using a mobile phone more secure?

In the con­di­tions of the mod­ern world, it is almost impos­si­ble to com­plete­ly aban­don the use of cel­lu­lar com­mu­ni­ca­tions. There­fore, in order to neu­tral­ize most of the harm­ful effects of EMR, it is worth adher­ing to sev­er­al impor­tant rec­om­men­da­tions:

• Make phone calls while out­side or near a win­dow. The walls of the premis­es delay elec­tro­mag­net­ic waves and trans­mit the sig­nal poor­ly; to ensure its con­tin­u­ous flow, the trans­mit­ter switch­es to max­i­mum pow­er.

• For the same rea­son, keep the phone only in an upright posi­tion and do not cov­er the anten­na locat­ed at the top of the device with your fin­gers: as soon as the anten­na effi­cien­cy drops, the trans­mit­ter begins to ampli­fy the radi­a­tion.

• Dur­ing a con­ver­sa­tion, do not bring the phone too close to your ear — and, even more so, do not press it to your head.

• When a call is request­ed, the radi­a­tion lev­el increas­es sig­nif­i­cant­ly; there­fore, track the moment of the inter­locu­tor’s answer, not hold­ing the phone to your ear, but watch­ing the dis­play of the mobile device.

Remem­ber: even the most mod­ern and advanced mod­els of cell phones are direct sources of elec­tro­mag­net­ic radi­a­tion. By adher­ing to the rec­om­mend­ed pre­cau­tions, you will pro­tect your body as much as pos­si­ble from the harm­ful effects of EMR.

Cell phone damage