Harmful effects of mobile phones on children

How mobile phones affect children’s mental health? The use of mobile phones has certainly become very high these days and to a large extent it is also the need of the people. But most of the time parents and general professionals are not able to determine the limits of their mobile phone needs and then its damages in their own life and on children’s health, psychology and life are extremely dangerous.

Children spend hours playing a game on mobile or watching an educational app. Now there are a lot of Urdu or Hindi cartoons on YouTube, if nothing else children spend hours watching them.

One point to keep in mind here is that the real problem is not the mobile phone, but the way it is used. The wrong or right way of using a thing is what makes it useful or harmful. And so it is with mobile phones. The use of mobile phones in children causes many psychological, mental, physical and social harms.

* Brain tumor or tumor

Mobile phones constantly emit dangerous radiation. These rays are harmful to adults as well, but children, especially children under the age of five, have a lot of negative effects. Because in these five years, many changes are happening rapidly in the child. Therefore, the child is easily accepting the effects of every positive and negative thing.

Children who use mobile phones for several hours a day, when they put this mobile phone on their ear, research shows that this process can cause tumors to appear on the ear, especially in the middle part of the ear and the brain. happens.

In children, bones, tissues and other organs including the brain are weak and not strong enough. Therefore, more than sixty percent of the radiation coming out of the mobile phone enters the child’s body. These rays have profound negative effects on the body, especially the human brain. The World Health Organization has included these radiations in the list of cancer-causing factors. Now imagine for yourself that when you stop your child’s cell phone, it is as if you manage to make him a cancer patient.

Disturbance in mental activity

Mobile phones use electromagnetic waves. The human brain also has its own electrical current through which the neural network carries a message from one place to another. As mentioned, children’s organs and internal systems are not very mature and robust, so when a child uses a mobile phone, their neural communication is immediately and severely affected. Experts have observed that if a child talks on the phone for just two minutes, this brain activity changes. This neurologic change causes the child to have irritable moods, extreme fluctuations in behavior, and greatly reduced attention span.

Children’s academic performance is also affected by excessive use of mobile phones. As the attention span of a child decreases with the use of mobile phones, he finds it very difficult to learn new things and especially to read and write. Thus, he falls behind in his class. His heart gets tired of studying.

Psychological problems

Children start to become lonely. They start getting lost in a new world. They get everything from social media. The most dangerous problems associated with mobile phone use are psychological problems. These problems are also the most dangerous because they are so mild in the beginning that parents don’t notice them. It is often assumed that the child’s health is unwell, it will get better in a few days, but the child is psychologically suffering from a lot of illness.

Playing games on a mobile phone greatly increases peripheral vision (the ability to look around without turning the head), due to which although the ability to see in a certain direction increases, central vision is weakened. Due to this, the balance of eye function is disturbed and there is a risk of many vision problems.

1. Such children rarely meet their friends and relatives due to being on social media. Hence, gradually they become sufferers of first social anxiety and then loneliness. Loneliness not only prevents a person from moving forward, but if it becomes too much, it can lead to severe depression and then suicide.