In a house full of wireless devices,                              is it any wonder?

If you have one of these, and you have tried all the obvious methods for alleviating their distress, it may be time to take a good, hard look at the levels of EMFs in your home.  You should take a look anyway.  Children are far more vulnerable to EMFs and levels that may be able to be tolerated by the adults in the house may be causing distress to younger family members and compromising their healthy growth and development.

Specifically, your baby’s or child’s bedroom is the starting point for investigating this.  Baby monitors and night lights are the greatest concern.

The evidence shows that even quite low levels of light stops the production of melatonin and that low levels of melatonin increase the likelihood of cancers and other serious health problems developing.  (For more information about melatonin see here).  A baby has been used to darkness until it was born and it is very easy to condition a child to needing a light on at night, usually a practice begun by parents to make it easy to check that the baby is OK.  Powerwatch recommend that the only type of night light which should be used are very low power (usually plug mounted) orange or red lights that gently glow.  Orange and red lights hardly affect the production of melatonin, whereas white and blue-white lights can stop the production of melatonin for the whole night.

Caution should be exercised in choosing an alarm for your baby, the best type by far being the battery-operated, wire connected baby monitors as they give off virtually no EMFs.  Baby monitors plugged into the mains can give off quite high levels of EMFs and the advice is to ensure that they are at least 1 metre away from your babies head.  But the worst offenders are the wireless ‘freedom’ alarms which you can walk about with, as in order to communicate with the parents listening unit they usually give off high levels of radiofrequency radiation.  Some have been manufactured in such a way that only give off low fields but you can really only know by measuring the emitted fields.

Other things to be careful of in baby’s and children’s rooms include; sensor pads put under the mattress which can emit pulsing microwave radiation, dimmer switches and lights.  Keep anything electrical at least 1 metre away from where they sleep.

I have been into houses where the WiFi hub is in a child’s room which is the worst place to locate it,  And often DECT phone signals can pervade the whole house, obviously including the children’s bedrooms.  Starting with what is immediately apparent in the bedroom is helpful but a survey of the whole home could throw up unexpected sources of EMFs which are also having an effect on the environment around your child.