Peter Limbrick writes –

There are clear dangers to the next generation from poverty, from alcohol, from tobacco and from electrosmog. Which one of these is the most un-talked-about? Electrosmog. Obviously. Why is this?

§   It is because we all enjoy playing with our mobile phones, our wi-fi laptops and our cordless (Dect) phones. (We even give our babies wi-fi alarms to sleep next to!) We just do not want to believe they are bad for us.

§   It is because mobile phone companies, all of them rich as Croesus, can dominate the media.

§   And, sadly, it is because the UK government lets them get away with it – for a financial return, of course. 

Can mobile phones damage the foetus?

Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor of the Independent Newspaper, is one of the rare journalists who sees the danger and tries to alert us to it. On the 18^th May he reported on a study of 13,000 children that exposed a link between the pregnant mothers’ use of mobile phone handsets and later behavioural problems in their children. The research at the Universities of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Aarhus, Denmark, is to be published in the July issue of Epidemiology. Geoffrey Lean writes that the study ‘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’.

This is not yet another excuse for blaming mothers. It is an urgent message that every one of us carries a responsibility to protect foetuses and children from environmental pollution. It is just possible that the mobile phone is more dangerous to the developing infant in utero than the bottle of wine. I cannot substantiate that comparison in any way because the development of the mobile phone and wi-fi industry has happened without research into the long-term effects of exposure of the human organism to this invisible electrosmog. But I am left with a big question about how far this un-researched electrosmog contributes to cancer, brain tumours, leukaemia, ADHD, autism…

Can incubators contribute to cot death?

On the 11^th May Geoffrey Lean reported on research at the General Hospital of the University of Siena, Italy that suggests, quoting the article, ‘incubators may cause babies to die later from cot death…The research…shows that even the very low electrical fields given off by incubators interfere with newborn’s heart rates. Experts add that this, in turn, impedes the development of the nervous system which can lead to cot death.’

Following the electrosmog theme, the baby in the incubator might also be exposed to the mobile phones the nurses and doctors carry and to other w-fi equipment in the ward. Next time you visit a hospital, if you do not actually work in one, look up at the roof and count the mobile phone base stations and masts. I would guess that hospitals suffer some of the thickest electrosmog – as do the patients and staff inside them, pregnant or not.