Is Bluetooth Harmful For Babies

Is Bluetooth Harmful For Babies? I have spent many hours of research to give you the best answer in this article.

We live in a time where technology is changing every day of the week. We are constantly evolving our old systems into newer, faster ones often thanks to new technological discoveries.

They form the backbone of our business infrastructure today and life without essential technological services like the internet is unimaginable.

This rapid evolution of tech has been a major player in boosting employment in STEM-related industries and it has created multiple smaller sectors that people can now choose as careers if they so wished.

The backbone of this technological revolution has been old-school techs like Bluetooth and the internet. Bluetooth still constitutes about 92% of how local electronic devices connect to each other wirelessly and the internet has been solely responsible for connecting these devices to the world.

As such, tech like Bluetooth is valuable assets and specialist teams are working on them non-stop to further improve these awesome techs.

However, not everything is as rosy. There are some very serious challenges to using these legacy wireless services and we need to be aware of the potential dangers that they might pose to our health and wellbeing.

We will further look into its effects on babies (including newborns) and how we can avoid the potential dangers of Bluetooth radiation.

Basics of Bluetooth

There is a good chance that you’ve heard of the name Bluetooth if not already familiar with it.

Bluetooth was one of the legacies of wireless technological innovations, meaning it was one of the earliest ways we figured out how to connect two electronic devices and enable sharing data between them.

It was quite an achievement at the time and a major technological jump in terms of data transfer range and speed.

Bluetooth wasn’t the first local networking method though – there were several other including infrared but they weren’t very good in terms of data transfer speed and the two devices needed to be in very close proximity for it to work properly.

Bluetooth came in and changed the game. It had a range of about 100m, so people could more easily transfer files without needing to change their seating positions. The second advantage Bluetooth had was the stability of the connection.

Infrared was notorious for dropping connection if you so much as moved the devices a little.

Bluetooth improved on it and delivered consistent transfer speeds regardless of the mobility of your device. The other major change was the introduction of security.

Infrared was really insecure and anyone could swoop in and steal your data while it was being transmitted. With Bluetooth, we were introduced to the concept of ‘pairing’ – a security measure enforced by sending a code to each device and then confirming the code.

This made sure no one could interfere with the data transfers. Ultimately, the growing popularity of mobile phones really gave Bluetooth a boost, so much so that it became the go-to way of transferring data.

Today of course we have more sophisticated ways of doing that but Bluetooth still remains a very popular option. In fact, it still is the number one method of connecting two smart devices.

From your music accessories like wireless headphones to wireless computer hardware like keyboards and mice, Bluetooth powers everything. But before all that, let’s take a moment to dive deep and understand how Bluetooth technology really works.

Understanding how Bluetooth works

Bluetooth is based on establishing a network using specific frequency bandwidths.

Two devices connect with each other through Bluetooth by harmonizing their radiation and then swapping data within the network.

Each of these devices has a transmitter and receiver retrofitted within them which helps in facilitating the process. Let us understand it with a working example:

Let’s consider that we need to transfer a song from one smartphone to another. In this case, the first step would be to turn on Bluetooth on both phones.

This simply means that the receivers and transmitters in the two phones are now active and looking for a transmission. The next step is called ‘pairing’, an important security measure essential in ensuring the privacy of data.

In this step, one phone requests a pairing with the other, and hence a random key is generated to authenticate the pairing. Once the key is confirmed on the other phone, the pairing is complete.

The third step is encoding. Basically what happens in this stage is that the target song is chopped up into tiny little pieces (also called packets) and each little packet is given a serial number.

The transmitter in the phone sending the song blasts off a handful of packets in the network which is then intercepted by the receiver of the receiving phone and arranged in order.

Once all the packets are transferred, the receiving phone assembles all the little pieces in their correct order and decodes them. Thus, the song transfer is complete.

How to Pair a Bluetooth devise in 5 steps.

Obviously the real thing is way more complicated and has a bunch of other things happening behind-the-scenes but this is pretty much what the basics of it are.

Bluetooth works by emitting out MF radiation that carries the data encoded in it.

It is high energy radiation that can be pretty dangerous to our health, thus the concerns. In the next section, we take a look at the health risks Bluetooth poses.

The radiation risks with Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a great technological innovation but it does come at a price. As discussed above, Bluetooth emits MF radiation that can be bad for human health.

These radiations are high energy and can easily penetrate through a physical obstruction. We cannot see them with our eyes but they can have serious effects on our bodies and overall wellbeing.

If we could see radiation, we would be shocked to find out that our homes are absolute cesspools of radiation in which we immerse ourselves unknowingly.

The damage caused because this is only left up to the imagination and it can very well turn to be fatal if we do not do something about it.

The radiation emitted by Bluetooth modules (in our smartphones and other smart devices) is generally MF radiation in nature.

They are non-ionizing, meaning that they are not strong enough to split atoms, however, they can cause considerable stress to your body.

Let me explain: Constant exposure to radiation from your phone causes your cells to be exposed to it at all times. Since they are non-ionizing, they can’t split your cells directly. However, they create a lot of thermal activity, thus putting the cells under pressure.

In that stressful condition, cells often do not have the ability to self-replicate perfectly and keep producing botched up versions of themselves.

If any such version becomes malignant, it can be a cause for serious concern. The medical theory is clear on this – there are demonstrable short term side Bluetooth effects to radiation exposure.

These include but are not limited to fatigue, irritation, mood swings, loss of attention span, sleeplessness, and headache.

The long term effects of this are not clear just yet because chronic conditions like tumors take about 20 to 30 years to manifest itself and we just don’t have enough data at the moment to draw a conclusion.

The risk in children and Bluetooth

We’ve so far established that Bluetooth can have negative effects on our health and bodies. However, what we haven’t touched upon is how Bluetooth (or any radiation for that matter) react when exposed to children.

Children are more vulnerable to the negative effects of Bluetooth radiation simply because of their small bodies and weakened natural defenses.

Our immune system plays a vital role in fighting off outside interference into our health framework but since the immune system isn’t matured in children, they are unable to offer any real protection against something as Bluetooth radiation.

It is also to be noted that kids have much lower bone density than an average adult. This is especially important because bones and tissues can somewhat safeguard us from radiation by serving as an intermediary obstacle between the outside and our cellular structure.

Since kids do not have such a well-developed bone structure, they are more susceptible to radiation exposure. It has been shown that the same level of radiation can do a lot more damage in kids than they can do in an adult human being.

So is Bluetooth harmful for babies?

Yes, it may be harmful and you should do everything you can to safeguard your child from the pool of radiation they’d be otherwise subjected to. The first step of this is awareness.

We are committed to providing you with information on radiation and its dangers and regularly published value-based articles aimed at informing you of all that you need to know about radiation and how to protect against it.

As we discussed above, Bluetooth can be detrimental to babies and small children which is why you should take care not to expose your children to these harmful radiations.

The best way of protecting against them is to identify the sources of radiation and completely eliminating them.

If that is not possible, there are several really good anti-radiation protection options for you to choose from including anti-radiation covers, anti-radiation blankets, and anti-EMF onesies.

We have a detailed article on these protective options on our website for your kind perusal.

If you are looking for Emf protection for children then here are some sites that supply Emf protection products.

Belly Armor.

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Here are a list of my favorite EMF protecting products.

My personal favorite EMF detection and protection products.

Related questions

Can EMF cause cancer in babies?

Theoretically speaking, it is quite possible to develop cancer by exposure to EMF. We have data indicating that it is likely and the scientific community is unanimous in acknowledging it to be a very real possibility.

However, we do not have any practical cases wherein the patient has developed cancer because of EMF exposure. But then again, malignant tumor formation is not immediate and it takes about 20 to 30 years for the full effects of EMF exposure to manifest itself.

Since the technology itself is not that old, we have no real cases demonstrating this theory. Although long term studies are being conducted on this subject, we would only be certain in the next two decades of the complete effects of EMF radiation on our body.

Till that time, we need to understand the theoretical possibilities, acknowledge the risks, and prepare accordingly for the safekeeping of ourselves and that of our loved ones.