Is It Safe To Use A Cell Phone While Pregnant?

Its always been seen as a myth. If a pregnant women were to talk on the cell phone frequently, then your child would grow up and have some problems. Well studies have recently shown that, this is no myth. Dr. Leeka Kheifets and her team at the UCLA School of Public Health looked at a group of 13,159 children whose mothers had been recruited to participate in the Danish National Birth Cohort study early in their pregnancies. When the children reached age 7, mothers were asked to complete a questionnaire about their children's behavior and health. After the researchers adjusted for factors such as a mother's psychiatric problems and socioeconomic factors, children with both prenatal and postnatal cell phone exposure were 80 percent more likely to have abnormal or borderline scores on tests evaluating emotional problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity, or problems with peers. Risks were higher for children exposed prenatally only, compared with those exposed only postnatally, but were lower than for children exposed at both time points. Kheifets notes that a fetus's exposure to radiofrequency fields by a mother's cell phone use is likely very small. However, they add, research has shown that children using cell phones are exposed to more radiofrequency energy than adults, because their ears and brains are smaller.

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