How to decrease harmful effects of mobile radiations

02 September, 2012

The hi-tech world is swimming in a sea of harmful electromagnetic radiations, which are produced by the mobile phones. Mobile phones have become an essential part of life in this modern era and the effect of mobile radiations on humans is the major cause of concern nowadays.

THE MOBILE phone market is making healthy revenue and there is no one to question this. The harmful mobile radiation is the sole reason for the steep increase in brain cancer in the recent years. The electromagnetic radiations are emitted from most of the electrical appliances but the intensity of the radiation varies.

The radiation levels of mobile phones reach the radio waves that increase the permeability of blood-brain-barrier, and can cause microscopic heating, which may lead to tumor risks. Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, describes the research process conducted by National Institutes of Health scientists. However, the study did not make conclusions about long-term effects of the altered brain activity, reported c-span.org.

The government has given some precautionary guidelines to all the mobile users to decrease the effect of the harmful radiations produced by the mobile phones. Some precautions to be taken in this regard as given below:

- Use the speaker option provided in the mobile phone rather than keeping it near your ear.

- If you have a choice, then prefer landline over mobile phone.

- Try to send text messages wherever possible and avoid doing voice calls.

- Don’t use your mobile phones where the signals are weak, as it will increase the transmission power of mobile radiations.

- Avoid making calls when you are wearing metal framed glasses or if your hair is wet, because metal and water are good conductors of radio waves.

- The people with active medical implants should keep the mobile phones at a distance of 15cm from the implant.

- Don’t carry your mobile phones in your breast, chest or pant pockets when they are switched on, as the mobile phones transmit high power radiations for every two minutes to check the network.