Mobile connection and man health
Author: Prof. Kochina M.
The rate of development of mobile connection can be compared perhaps only with general computerization. It is difficult to imagine the day without mobile phone, how could we (before mobile period) to make a meeting with someone, and, even, visit it, or carry out a number of talks. It is not necessary to point out all advantages of mobile connection, since each knows them well.
However the happy owners of mobile phones are oftenly have a question: how does the mobile connection and other wireless technologies influence on our health? We will try to answer it.
The main components of mobile connection are – mobile phone and base station. The work of this system is grounded on principle of differentiation of some territory to zones (so called cells) usually with the radius for about 0,5 -2 km (in the conditions of city housing), in the centers of clusters of which base stations are placed, are aimed to support mobile devices in the coverage zone. Base stations transmit information with the help of radio frequencies in the range of 450-1800 MHz, continuously generating high frequency electromagnetic field, which covers all zones of mobile connection. So, user of cell/mobile phone and person who doesn't use mobile connection, and lives near objects of cell connection, are in this field.
Nowadays there are about 1,4 million of base stations in the world, about 20 thousands of them are in Ukraine. Today in Ukraine there are more then 51 million of subscribers of different mobile operators, a number of people uses services of several operators at once.
You can't tell if magnetic field of mobile phone “comes across» the human's body. During the talk through mobile phone electromagnetic field pass through the humans's body and being absorbed by the tissues of the head — such as skin, ear, parts of brain, including visual analyzer. It is essential to note that if receiving is good the phone is working in optimal mode, but is it is bad, then power of getting a signal grow automatically and so the energy absorbed by the human's body grow as well. In order to protect oneself from this we need to minimize or even not to use phone with unstable or weak signal.
A number of users of cell phones have complaints, the most typical are headaches, giddinesses, discomfort, feeling of “heat” near or behind the ear, sickness, neurologic disorders, undue fatiguability. The straight dependance can be seen between a number of complaints on headaches, undue fatiguability and duration and frequency of talks via phone. People who has such symptoms like giddinesses, sickness, eyes gripes, ear fret, tiredness, sleep disorder, usually talk using mobile phone more then the users who doesn't have such complaints. The reason of such a complaints can be the heat of vestibular apparatus of middle ear. Besides this, as modern researches have shown during continuous influence of electromagnetic fields of low-intensity on the human the evident changes in cerebral brain cortex appear, and during short term influence such disorders of bio-electrical activeness of brain cortex are not seen.
The continuous use of mobile phone, according to evidences, can lead to neurologic disorders, such as memory relief, sleep disorder, headaches, fatigability, increased nervousness, which can also influence on sexual activity. It is unsafe to keep mobile phone in the pocket, if it is turned on. Specialists has found out that connection between mobile phone and men health, it is associated with negative influence of emission on function of sex glands.
In the meantime the researchers have bypassed important thing, such as the influence of SHF range on the points of acupuncture, which are in abound at human ear. Ear is one of the objects of attention of nail therapists since its surface points are associated with all organs and body systems. Possibly, numerous complaints of active mobile users connected with excessive stimulation of definite points.
In Ukraine the tabu on talk on mobile phone by automobile transport drivers is not implemented, however it is well known that the increasing time of vision-motoring reaction in average for 0,5-1 sec a result of continuous emanation (which can be defined using additional 22 meters of train with the speed of 80 km/h, if the talk carried out during driving). It is not essential to comment possible effects of such talks. The reasons of driver “sluggishness” can be also directed to the influence of emanation on neurons conduction of brain, such as tissue heat, at that the growth of the temperature of brain tissue can reach 1 C.
The majority of scientists thinks that emission of mobile phones can harm cells and tissue because of heat only. However according to data of new researches, SHF emissions can cause dangerous changes in the cells not depending on growth of the temperature and cause un-controlled process of their division, which can be the reason of some forms of cancer.
To the psychical disorders connected with active use of mobile phone can be added: phantom of vibration or call-mania (mobile phantom, phone hallucinations), when people feel vibrations and hear calls of phones which does not exist; SMS-mania, when person writes and sends dozens of SMS in a day and can't stop, even if it is simpler to call; information mania, showed in the form of the person often get out cell phone to check e-mail, SMS, and he/she cannot determine which information is important for him/her. Having studied the owners and active users of mobile phones psychologists have come to the conclusion that mobile device provoke psychological dependance.
A wide distribution of mobile phones all over the world and connected with its users health issues has lead us to the necessity of studying of the situation, which is already done by World Health Organization, which has chosen preventive strategy of attitude towards mobile connection issue. Since the researches of the influence of mobile phone emission to the body, which have been carried out with the help of number of healthy volunteers has shown considerable changes in the state, so we can expect more evident influence on people with different pathology, pregnant women, kids and teenagers. That is why WHO does not recommend the mobile phone use to the people who suffer from the following diseases of neurological character, including neurasthenia, psychopathy, psychosthenia, neuroses, clinical picture of which is characterized aesthetic, obsessive , hysterical disorders, as well as decrease of mental and physical workability, decrease of memory, sleep disorders, epilepsy and epileptic syndrome, one who has epileptic predisposition. According to the WHO experts, in order to decrease an influence of electromagnetic field of mobile phone on the body we need to limit the mobile phone talk duration (the duration of one talk less then 3 minutes) and increase of period between two talks (minimal is 15 minutes), primary use of the phones with headsets and hands-free systems. It is advisable not to use cell phones by pregnant women, kids and teenagers who are not 16 years old, not to wear the phone at breasts and keep them in pockets, it is better to keep them in bags and briefcases.











