Warning: Using a mobile phone while pregnant can seriously damage your baby

[DogPoundPup]

Women who use mobile phones when pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with behavioural 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 sceptical that mobile phones pose a risk to health.

Read more : http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/warning-using-a-mobile-phone-while-pregnant-can-seriously-damage-your-baby-830352.html

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I didn't know that they had cell phones when Babs was pregnant with George....

sorry, I know it was a serious topic with serious concerns, but I couldn't help myself...feeling snarky tonight!

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Every study finds doing anything and everythin can give you cancer or damage your baby.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Typing on a keyboard is the leading cause of arthritis and fingernail cancer.

Studies are very clear on this.

[elocs]

3. "Seriously damage"? That might be overstated until there are further and more conclusive studies.

There are also probably millions of women who are pregnant and do not know it who regularly use cell phones. Sometimes I think that it is life that poses the greatest risk to health.

[chknltl]

4. Thanks, KnR and passed out to friends. eom

[Liberal Veteran]

7. I'm still waiting for the study that says cell phones cause impotence and cellulite.

Maybe then that woman in front of me at the grocery store will shut the hell up and answer the questions she is being asked by the cashier.

[chknltl]

8. LOL! The very reason I distributed this to my friends:

Females, cursed with cell phones and popularity also wanting babies. I was less interested in the study regarding the potential for damaging the unborn than I was in getting these lasses to put their cell phones down for more than an hour a day. (ESPECIALLY while driving and sipping on lattes!!! That needs to stop soon!) I DO like your suggested study though.

[DeeDeeNY]

6. mobile phones pose a risk to health in general

http://www.safewireless.org/

scary stuff

[cosmik debris]

9. The part nobody seems to read:

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.

[hughee99]

10. It's getting bad for me, because whenever I read headlines like this,

I always expect to find information in the article like this. Even worse is when I don't find it, but read the study it cites and find it in there. Not really so much of a comment on scientific studies, more of one about journalism. It's a headline that certainly makes the reader want to find out more, and when they do, they realize the title was deceptive. When this happens enough, some people automatically dismiss whatever claims they see as just being hyperbole.

[trotsky]

12. CELL PHONES ARE TEH EVUL!!!

Part of the global conspiracy to KILL US ALL. That is all I (or YOU) need to know.

[cosmik debris]

13. NO! NO! NO!

I broke my ankle a few years ago and I couldn't get up to answer the phone so I started using a cell phone. Three months later my ankle was healed! And I owe it all to cell phone use.

MY CELL PHONE HEALED MY ANKLE.

You're just a shill for the land line industry trying to keep me dependent on your technology so you can clean out my wallet!


Uh, wait a minute, that's not right. Wait. Never mind.

[semillama]

14. Dude, this is TEH INTERNETS

"Should be interpreted with caution" doesn't fly here!

[varkam]

11. That's a fairly overblown title.

While the subject pool was quite large, the methodology of the study makes it difficult to draw any sort of causal connection. A survey can be very useful for determining, among other things, a correlation, it cannot justifiably be used to say that X causes Y. As the article notes, there may be other factors that can account for such a finding other than there being any sort of actual effect that mobile phones have on developing fetuses.