X-Rays: Are they really good for you?

Posted by Lloyd on April 11, 2010 under EMFs and x-rays | Be the First to Comment

The use of X-rays is very common in diagnostic procedure. But the question I put to you is how safe are they to human health?

Studies show a direct link between exposure to x-rays and many ill-health problems and have done for a good many years, Gofman and O’Connor wrote about this extensively in 1985.

More recently a study published in the Journal of The American Medical Association that showed how frequent dental x-rays during pregnancy could attribute to a low birth weight of a newborn baby.

Then there are other papers that indicate how mammograms using x-rays could hike chances of breast cancer by almost 250%.

When you think about it, this does make sense, well to me anyway.

Because x-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, and exposure to electromagnetic radiation frequently or over long periods are indeed harmful to the body.

If you’ve been reading my earlier posts, I’ve spelt all this out pretty clearly.

Are X-Rays Worse Than Cell Phone Radiation?

X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, they affect the healthy cells of the body and literally ‘burn’ them. There are two “types” of radiation ionizing and non-ionizing. There is currently a lot of controversy about cell phone radiation and WiFi etc which gives off non-ionizing radiation.  X-rays give off ionizing radiation, which is far more dangerous, it causes cells to lose their original configuration and transform into abnormal cells.

One of the basic reasons for cancer is this transformation of healthy cells to abnormal ones. First, there will be some tumor formation. This tumor may eventually turn malignant if your immunity is not strong enough to fight off infections.

How To Minimize your Exposure

My advice is pretty categorical on this, children, pregnant women, elderly and people with low immunity, stay away from x-ray diagnostics unless it is completely unavoidable.

When it really is necessary, for example to diagnose a broken bone or analyze a dental problem or study the fetal development in the womb, be picky about which diagnostic clinic you go to. Check out the reputation of the clinic and the x-ray machines they use, generally the newer the better.

More recent machines minimize exposure and maximize diagnostics, because the machines are so designed to use less radiation and produce sharper images with brighter resolutions.

Yes, you may have to pay a little extra, or travel a little further, but it will be worth it.

If you want to think about this only on financial terms; a few bucks more now will save huge drain of money later, to get cured, if at all, from the conditions perpetuated by exposure to longer and cheaper x-ray diagnostics.

That’s what I think anyway, what do you think?