Children With Behavioral Problems

Is Cell Phone Radiation a Cause?

Posted by: Vidya

Children with behavioural problems has been the subject of a number of recent scientific studies. Cell phone radiation has emerged as one important probable cause. Childhood ADHD and other behavioural issues have risen dramatically in the last decade, and so has cell phone exposure, causing researchers to study a possible correlation.

Studies on Children with Behavioural Problems and Cell Phone Radiation

In 2008, a study by Hozefa Divan, et al. in Denmark included a group of 13,000 children. When the children reached age seven, the mothers answered questionnaires about their own cell phone use, both while pregnant and afterward, and that of their child, along with information about their child’s health and behaviour.

The study found that children with both prenatal and postnatal cell phone exposure displayed the most behavioural problems. In fact, they were 80% more likely to have emotional problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity or problems with peers than those in the control group. Those exposed only prenatally had more problems than those exposed only postnatally.

In December 2010, a new study on the same subject was conducted by Liika Kheifits, PhD at UCLA. This study included 100,000 pregnant women. Again, the mothers provided information on their lifestyles, including cell phone use during and after pregnancy, their child’s cell phone use, and behavioural issues in their children.

This time, researchers were more stringent, adjusting more potential confounding factors, including sex of child, mother’s age at birth, mother’s and father’s history of psychiatric, cognitive or behavioural problems parents had as children, socio-occupational status, gestational age, mother’s prenatal stress, and whether the child was breastfed.

Although the findings were somewhat weaker—50% rather than 80% of the children with cell phone exposure had serious behavioural problems—Dr. Kheifits stated that the new study “broadly confirms” the findings of the earlier study. Indeed, 50% increase in behavioural problems in drastic.

Children’s Health and EMFs

The results of the studies did not surprise well-known physician, Dr. Joseph Mercola, who has written a extensively about the hazards of EMFs on children, especially the microwave radiation emitted by cell phones. In an article in 2009, he stated that cell phone radiation brings a unique hazard to the developing fetus.

“Studies have shown that EMFs can affect glands, muscles, liver enzymes, hormone glands, heart and bone marrow. It can actually alter the DNA structure.”

He continues to state that radiation can affect genes in the mitochondria of cells. If this gene sequence is altered in a pregnant woman, she can pass her damaged mitochondria onto a child. This can cause a mitochondrial disorder, which can include muscular atrophy and severe developmental problems. It could even cause autism.

Numerous other studies have confirmed the hazards of cell phone use, finding evidence of increased permeability in the blood-brain barrier, breaks in the DNA and increased speed in cell division. Correlations have been made between cell phone radiation and many diseases and symptoms, including Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular disease, insomnia, anxiety and depression. Read more on the hazards of cell phone radiation.

With all this evidence of serious health risks caused by cell phone radiation, is it any surprise that the number of children with behavioural problems is on the rise?

Children are More Vulnerable to Cell Phone Radiation

Many scientists and researchers in the last ten years have pointed out that children are much more vulnerable to cell phone radiation than adults. This is because their nervous systems are still developing. Because children are still growing, they have much smaller and thinner skulls than adults, so their brains are far more susceptible to information-carrying radio waves.

Children’s brains, holding more fluid, also allow for greater absorption of the radiation. A 5-year-old, according the Stewart Report of 2005, absorbs the radiation from a cell phone at a 60% rate greater than an adult does. Read more on the dangers of children & cell phones.

Because governments continue to maintain that findings from the many studies that have been done on children and cell phone hazards have not been “conclusive”, little action has been taken to protect children from probable cell phone dangers. The French government stands alone in taking action. In 2009, they passed laws to prohibit the advertising of mobile phones to children under 12 years, and to ban the sale of phones to be used by children under 6.

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