Why Pregnant Women Allowed Most Use Electricity?

Electronic devices are designed to facilitate a variety of daily activities, but by no means be taken in excess. Even pregnant women are advised not to overuse of electrical equipment. Why is that?

Scientists from the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Dr. De-Kun Li proves find that the influence of electromagnetic fields generated during use of pregnant women may increase the risk of asthma in children.

The analysis showed, pregnant women exposed to high electromagnetic field 3.5 times more at risk for congenital birth of children with asthma compared to pregnant women with low electromagnetic exposure. On exposure to moderate, 74 percent higher risk than low exposure.


Increased risk of delivering a child with congenital asthma bigger if pregnant women also had a history of asthma. Pregnant women who have a history of asthma six times more likely than pregnant women with no history of asthma, although exposure to electromagnetic fields with the same intensity.

Birth order also affects risk, because the first child was more affected than children to electromagnetic fields-2 and so on.
 Quoted from HealthDay, Tuesday (08/02/2011), the first child got 40 percent higher risk of asthma if exposed while pregnant mother a lot of electric field.

The good news is, exposure to electromagnetic fields can be reduced by reducing the excessive use of electronic devices and keep the distance with a device that was working. The farther the distance, the smaller the exposure to electromagnetic fields into his body.

Dr. Li pointed out, an average microwave electromagnetic field has a magnitude miligauss 200-500. By standing as far as 1 to 1.5 meters of the device, then the electromagnetic field strength is reduced 1-2 miligauss about it.

For the study, scientists studied 626 pregnant women in the United States. During pregnancy, the participants wore a device for measuring exposure to electromagnetic fields and the development of their children were observed until 13 years later.

In these observations, exposure to electromagnetic fields on pregnant women categorized high if it exceeds 2 miligauss (unit to measure magnetic strength). Less than 0.3 miligauss categorized low, while between 0.3 to 2 miligauss being categorized.