A conversation we had often had when we were sitting with our children recently:
Children: Mom, Dad, when will you buy us a mobile phone?
Us: When you get a little older, we think you don’t need a cell phone right now.
Children: But many of our friends have cell phones, their families bought it, why don’t we?
Us: Because it has detrimental effects for everyone but especially for children, mobile phone is not necessary for you right now.
Children: What if you buy it, we use it less, we just carry it with us. Thus, we will be away from harm and you can call us whenever you want.
Us: Unfortunately not so guys. Even just carrying it with you can cause serious illnesses after many years. We’ll see when you get a little older.
Children: Uffff mom, uffff dad, you’re so bad.
Similar conversations happen in many families, I guess or I hope they do. Because, as I said in the title, none of us would like to put a bomb in our children’s pockets with our own hands and that we do not know when it will explode.
The reliability of mobile phones and similar devices that produce magnetic wave radiation via radiofrequency has been a matter of debate for years. However, many data reveal that these devices have serious damages.
According to the decision taken by the International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC), gathered under the World Health Organization (WHO), with 30 experts from 14 different countries in 2011, mobile phones and similar devices producing magnetic field radiation are “2D” in terms of safety. They were evaluated in the class of “POSSIBLY CANCER-CACHING EFFECT FOR HUMAN”
There is a lot of scientific data that led them to take this decision.
Not only mobile phones, but also wireless home phones, Wi-Fi connections, bluetooth devices, household appliances that generate high electric current, and base stations are among the devices with risk
We are all at risk, but the evidence is that our children are more vulnerable. indicates that it is under great threat. Children and babies in the womb are more susceptible to all kinds of cancer-causing factors as they have cells that multiply and grow rapidly. If we say why they are more sensitive to the danger caused by mobile phones:
1. Children’s brain tissues absorb magnetic field radiation 2 times more than adults. In the bone marrow of the skull, this rate is 10 times higher.
2. Skull bones, which can be protective due to the barrier effect, are thinner in children.
3. Since the brain tissue is smaller than adults, the magnetic field radiation received causes more intense damage.
If you are one of those who say, “If the mobile phone were really harmful, a lot of people would get cancer, I don’t see it around me,” I have two answers. First of all, many data that I will give shortly reveal such an increase. Secondly, the silent period between the cause of cancer and the formation of solid tissue cancer can last up to 30 years. In this respect, we are likely to see negative results in the next 5-10 years.
Unfortunately, the economy often values earnings more than human life. We see that these devices, called probable cancer-causing devices, are made attractive to children and marketing strategies are developed for children. Since we are not sufficiently informed about the dangers, we do not hesitate to put these devices in front of even a few months old baby to keep them entertained, and to give them as gifts to play. Even in our schools, the fact that small students are constantly walking around with tablets in their hands under the influence of wi-fi is considered as the development of the education system, ignoring all the dangers.
In countries such as India, France, Belgium, laws are enacted that prevent warning information about the harm of wireless devices for children and preventing such device advertisements from targeting children.
In all smartphones, laptops and tablet computers, there are information written about how far we should keep the devices from ourselves in order to avoid magnetic field radiation that can be dangerous to humans, but it is not possible to apply in practice. For example, 10-20 mm for smartphones, 20 cm and above for tablets and laptops. Well, how many people are carrying or talking mobile phone 20 mm from itself; holding his laptop 20cm away from his body while using it?
In many long-term studies, it has been shown that the risk of developing brain tumors and salivary gland tumors increases in the ear area where we talk on the mobile phone. In another article, the risk factors of 4 young women who were diagnosed with breast cancer in their 20s were examined, and it was found that two of them had been carrying their mobile phones in a bra since the age of 15. As a coincidence, breast cancers occurred in the breast on the side where they put the phone.
The risk increases with the total and daily usage time of these devices and their proximity to our body.
There is also information on the possible effects of Wi-fi connections. One of the most striking was the decrease in the motility of sperm cells and breaks in their DNA structures, which were kept close to a laptop computer with a Wi-fi connection for about 4 hours.
So what can we do about it? That is the subject of our next article.
