YOUR MOBILE, YOUR HEALTH

Communication among people is most important. With the invention of telephone, people used to talk and communicate to long distances. With advent of mobile phone the entire concept of communication is completely changed. The world became one. Earlier mobile phone was luxury and now it is necessity. Apart from basic needs like roti kapada and makaan, mobile became essential and basic need in every once life. Every one from house maid, rickshaw puller, taxi drivers, office boys etc, from common man to elite people are using mobile phone for communication.

At preset, India has 391 million cell phone users. By the end of 2010, India is estimated to have 500 million cell phone users The largest mobile users in the world is China, next comes to India.

Talking for too long on a cell Phone could be seriously affecting your health. PGI Chandigarh study, sensorineural deafness could occur in 30% of people using mobile phones for more than two hours a day over a two-year period. "In a research study done in PGI, excessive use of mobile phones was found to cause deficient hearing and tinnitus (ringing in the ears)," Azad said.

Indian scientists had found during animal studies that radiation emitted from mobile phones caused DNA damage, low sperm count leading to infertility and reduction in testis size in rats. The effect of radio frequency radiation (RFD) has on neurological disorders like cognitive function and cognitive impairment, depression and sleep related disorders. Excessive mobile phone use changes the white matter of the brain and causes physiological abnormalities. Its also effect on reproductive health like menstrual cycle, hormonal changes in women. its effect on male reproductive functions and causes abnormalities in the male reproductive tract.

What solutions???

· People should not talk on their mobile phone continuously for more than one hour a day.

· The use of hands free technology could reduce the side effects of excessive use of mobile phone on users, including hearing defects.

· There should be ban on use of mobile phones in public places.

· Parents should also control children in use of the mobile phones

Too much of any thing is not good and spoil the life style of the people. This is the case with Mobile Phones