Mobile Phone Impact For Brain Health Children

If young people today do not reduce the use of mobile phone devices, they may suffer an "epidemic" of a most deadly diseases in the world at a later date.

Research shows that children and adolescents have five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones. Many scientists who have claimed that the wave of communication will produce long-term health implications worldwide.

This is unprecedented, and the frequency of tumor growth in the human brain is still unavoidable. However, further investigation regarding the danger to young people about the risk of cancer from cell phone use has been made. And programs of the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) has made this a top priority.

Phone owners are urged to limit their use after the World Health Organization or WHO recognizes if the phone can cause cancer. Despite the recommendation of the official report the use of mobile phones by children should be "minimized", some developed countries like the United States and some European countries have done all the way to prevent this.

The ministers in European countries dealing with this issue, have been encouraged to provide strict limits for exposure to mobile phone radiation and wireless, Wi-Fi and other devices. The reason is because children are especially vulnerable to it.

With the brain and nervous system are still developing in childhood or adolescence, then it will have a very high risk. Part of their heads are smaller and their skulls are thinner, and this will make it easier for radiation to penetrate deeper into their brains.

Neurosurgeon and researcher, Dr. Leif Salford, has done a lot of research on radio frequency radiation and its effects on the brain. According to Salford, the potential implications of some of the research has produced some conclusions about the results of this fact, which the weakest level of wireless radiation exposure can cause the greatest effect in the leakage of blood to the brain.


Since he began his research in 1988, Dr. Leif Salford and colleagues at Lund University Hospital in Sweden, has conducted experiments on low-level radiation. Their results were consistent and very worrying, which is radiation from mobile phones can cause obstructions and leaks of blood to the brain from the first line charge against infections and toxic chemicals.

Research derived from further analysis of the data from one of the largest studies previously was then reported on the first international conference on the impact of the use of mobile phones for health and risk of cancer-causing radiation, which is led by Professor Lennart Hardell of the University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden.

"People who started mobile phone use before the age of 20 years will have increased more than five-fold glioma, a cancer that attacks the glial cells of the central nervous system. Extra risk to young people contracting the disease from using the cordless phone found in many home about the same magnitude, more than four times higher ", said Professor Hardell in the International conference held at the Royal Society by the Radiation Research Trust.

"They are starting to use the phone at a young age, have a risk five times more likely to get acoustic neuromas, benign cancers. But these tumors often damage the auditory nerve, which usually cause permanent deafness".

"On the contrary, those who are in the age of 20 years before using the handset only 50 per cent more likely to contract gliomas and just twice as likely to get acoustic neuromas".

"This is a warning sign. It is very worrying. We have to take precautions".

Professor Hardell believe that, children under the age of 12 may not use cell phones except in emergencies and that teenagers should use an external device or headset and hands free to concentrate on SMS only. While the dangers of cell phone use at the age of 20 years, tend to be reduced because the brain has developed fully.

He admits, the danger to children and teenagers may be far greater than the results of the research that has been done. In addition, most of the cancer takes decades to develop into a very powerful and ferocious. However, many people still assume that this problem is not so important, and in fact what happens is that the cancer often develops faster than what had been predicted by experts.

"It looks frightening to see a five-fold increase in cancer among people who started using mobile phones in childhood. And 'would be very surprised' if it proved to be so high risk after all the evidence that the data entry", said Professor David Coggon, chairman of the program committee of management in MTHR study in the UK.

"Children spend significant time on the phone. We may face a public health crisis, an epidemic of brain cancer from mobile phone use," said David Carpenter, Dean of the Faculty of Public Health of the State University of New York.

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In other recent research results that quotation from a scientific article about the safety of mobile phones, published online in the journal Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, said that, children or teenagers will absorb twice as much microwave radiation from mobile phones as well as adults, while The mobile phone is in a shirt or pants pocket them.

The paper notes that, industrial processes designed to evaluate the microwave radiation from mobile phones on children can absorb twice the cell phone radiation to their heads, up to three-fold in the hippocampus and hypothalamus their brains, greater absorption in their eyes, and as much as 10 times more in their bone marrow as compared with adults.

While in previous studies in pregnant women who use mobile phones have also shown that they will give birth to children with behavioral problems, especially if the children start using the phone itself.

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health found that, less than an hour of cellphone use can speed up brain activity in the area closest to the phone antenna, raising new questions about the health effects of low levels of radiation emitted from cell phones.

The study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association was among the first and largest in documenting the weak radio frequency signals from a mobile phone has a very high potential to alter brain activity.

"This study is important because the human brain is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones," said Dr. Volkow.

"It also highlights the importance of conducting research to answer the question about whether or not the long-term consequences of repeated stimulation, more than 5, 10 or 15 years".