Pregnancy, children, teens & mobile phones

This occurs because absorption of radiation by children is larger, due to the following factors:

• Their brain has more extensive absorptive capacity for radiation. It has been calculated that a child’s brain absorbs twice as much radiation as an adult’s. It is terrifying, but there are studies which report that children’s bone marrow absorbs microwave radiation (that is radiation derived from wireless devices) tenfold in comparison to adults.
• Their skull has thinner walls.
• They have less body volume, compared to adults.

Morgan and his associates recommend:

• Maintain a safety distance from the ear of at least 15cm. This distance reduces the risk by 10.000 times.
• Even when we are not using it, our phone releases radiation. This means that we must keep it at a safe distance from our bodies.
• Wireless devices must be kept far away from the pregnant woman’s abdomen. When she is breast-feeding, she must not talk on the mobile phone or house wireless telephone. Moreover, the wireless baby intercom must not be placed in the cradle.
• Children and adolescents must be taught not to keep their wireless devices in the space where they are sleeping. According to Pew Research Centre, 75% of children who own a mobile phone, keep it under their pillow.
• Boys must not place their mobile phone in the front pocket of their trousers because this may affect the sperm, after adolescence.
• Girls must keep the devices away from their breasts.
• The router for the wi-fi must be kept at a spot where family members, especially children, do not frequent.

The authors emphasise that there is a large research literature that associates several brain cancers to the use of mobile phones. They note that, even though the evidence is not conclusive, the average time needed for the disease to present after exposure to a carcinogen, is 3 or more decades.