Dos and Don’ts with a mobile phone

These are certain preferable precautions to be kept in mind with use of a mobile !

Dos :

• Maintain as much distance as possible from body preferably with hands free kit.
• Maintain enough distance from others to minimise passive radiation influence.
• Hold phone to the ear opposite to the side where a device like 'pace maker' is implanted.
• Use a phone with anti radiation fabric or paint or metallic foil wall paper etc available as a protective measure.
• Restrict the call to as shorter a duration as possible.
• Prefer landline phone when you have access to it, as it emits no radiation.

Ensure that :

• Children below 15 ideally are kept away from using mobiles.
• Use of mobile phone by pregnant women is preferably avoided as microwave radiation is absorbed by the amniotic fluid in which the foetus grows.
• You use both hands while typing text etc.

Don'ts :

• Hold the phone too close to ears especially for long.
• Use the phone while the charging is in progress.
• Keep the phone switched on beside the bed at night.
• Use the phone in closed and confined space such as elevator, cellar etc.
• Use the mobile while in a closed vehicle such as car.
• Keeping the mobile in a pocket or a jacket directly above a device like pace maker.

Many of these are suggested to ensure protection from radiation.For protection from radiation ,wherever applicable, be it from TVs or Computers etc.,the cheapest and the best means of protection are “Distance” and ”Time”.

***Larger is the distance from source of radiation, smaller is the radiation received. Similarly, shorter is the length of time spent near the source of radiation, smaller is the radiation.

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