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Warning: Using a mobile phone while pregnant can seriously
damage your baby 5-20-08
Study of 13,000 children exposes link between use of handsets and later
behavioral problems
Scientists found that mothers who did use the handsets were 54 per cent more
likely to have children with behavioral problems and that the likelihood
increased with the amount of potential exposure to the radiation
Women who use mobile phones when pregnant are more likely to give birth to
children with behavioral problems, according to authoritative research.
A giant study, which surveyed more than 13,000 children, found that using the
handsets just two or three times a day was enough to raise the risk of their
babies developing hyperactivity and difficulties with conduct, emotions and
relationships by the time they reached school age. And it adds that the
likelihood is even greater if the children themselves used the phones before the
age of seven.
The results of the study, the first of its kind, have taken the top scientists
who conducted it by surprise. But they follow warnings against both pregnant
women and children using mobiles by the official Russian radiation watchdog
body, which believes that the peril they pose "is not much lower than the risk
to children's health from tobacco or alcohol".
The research – at the universities of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Aarhus,
Denmark – is to be published in the July issue of the journal Epidemiology and
will carry particular weight because one of its authors has been skeptical that
mobile phones pose a risk to health.
UCLA's Professor Leeka Kheifets – who serves on a key committee of the
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, the body that
sets the guidelines for exposure to mobile phones – wrote three and a half years
ago that the results of studies on people who used them "to date give no
consistent evidence of a causal relationship between exposure to radiofrequency
fields and any adverse health effect".
The scientists questioned the mothers of 13,159 children born in Denmark in the
late 1990s about their use of the phones in pregnancy, and their children's use
of them and behavior up to the age of seven. As they gave birth before mobiles
became universal, about half of the mothers had used them infrequently or not at
all, enabling comparisons to be made.
They found that mothers who did use the handsets were 54 per cent more likely to
have children with behavioral problems and that the likelihood increased with
the amount of potential exposure to the radiation. And when the children also
later used the phones they were, overall, 80 per cent more likely to suffer from
difficulties with behavior. They were 25 per cent more at risk from emotional
problems, 34 per cent more likely to suffer from difficulties relating to their
peers, 35 per cent more likely to be hyperactive, and 49 per cent more prone to
problems with conduct.
The scientists say that the results were "unexpected", and that they knew of no
biological mechanisms that could cause them. But when they tried to explain them
by accounting for other possible causes – such as smoking during pregnancy,
family psychiatric history or socio-economic status – they found that, far from
disappearing, the association with mobile phone use got even stronger.
They add that there might be other possible explanations that they did not
examine – such as that mothers who used the phones frequently might pay less
attention to their children – and stress that the results "should be interpreted
with caution" and checked by further studies. But they conclude that "if they
are real they would have major public health implications".
Professor Sam Milham, of the blue-chip Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New
York, and the University of Washington School of Public Health – one of the
pioneers of research in the field – said last week that he had no doubt that the
results were real. He pointed out that recent Canadian research on pregnant rats
exposed to similar radiation had found structural changes in their offspring's
brains.
The Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection says that
use of the phones by both pregnant women and children should be "limited". It
concludes that children who talk on the handsets are likely to suffer from
"disruption of memory, decline of attention, diminishing learning and cognitive
abilities, increased irritability" in the short term, and that longer-term
hazards include "depressive syndrome" and "degeneration of the nervous
structures of the brain".
Comment:
Cell phones are a commodity we just aren't going to give up! If you are pregnant it is best to avoid using as much as possible and never place near the belly. For everybody else use a cell phone diode to help block electro magnetic fields. Contrary to popular natural health thinking; using an earpiece is even more dangerous as it concentrates the emf's right into the ear. Using the new Bluetooth ear pieces are especially dangerous as new studies show they emit as high of an electromagnetic field when they ring or you dial out as the phone itself does.