Question

We know someone who had a miscarriage. What is greater danger, cell phone, using a lap top, WI-Fi.

All of them, but wanted to know if there was one that stood out as the worst.


Kathy


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Kathy, 

It probably depends on how you use them. 
If the person uses their cell phone all day long but isn't close to the wifi for long during the day and doesn't ever sit with a laptop on her lap, then the cell phone would create the greatest exposure. And vice versa. If she was sitting with a laptop on her lap for long periods of the day with it's wifi turned on, that would probably be a great exposure. 

Different people tend to be sensitive to different things, so I don't think you can make a generality about 1 or the other being generally worse, it's really your usage or frequency of exposure that makes it worse. 

At least that is what I have learned from my reading and studies!

Kristina

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KathyB wrote:
> We know someone who had a miscarriage. What is greater danger, cell phone, using a lap top, WI-Fi.
>
> All of them, but wanted to know if there was one that stood out as the worst.
>  

Since the cell phone only transmits when on a call, texting, or checking
for mail etc which may be a short burst every 15 minutes, I'd place it
in the middle.
A laptop doesn't intentionally transmit, so is the best of the three.
WiFi does transmit loudly 10 times per second, and is therefore the
worst of the three.

The deciding factors will be _time_ based exposure and highest
_power-density_

Stewart

Unfortunately some of the newer cell phones transmit MUCH more often than when calling texting or actively using data services. Both the droid phones and iphones are sending out information without you asking it too. I have measured very high RF coming off my cell phone just waking it up from sleep mode. These issues also fall into the realm of user privacy issues but unfortunately there's not much awareness about it.

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> Since the cell phone only transmits when on a call, texting, or checking
> for mail etc which may be a short burst every 15 minutes, I'd place it
> in the middle.