Tuesday, February 23, 2010

UltraSound Dangers

I think people are using Ultrasounds a little too much these days... They say it is a harmless technology, that it is just sound waves, but in reality they haven't studied it's side effects yet. Experiments with Guinea pigs showed that their brain tissue could raise up to 5 degrees in temperature! The water and tissue absorb Ultrasound energy to heat things up. The fetus cannot regulate it's own body temperature so prolonged exposure can cause the heat to build up, and stay up causing brain tissue damage.

And besides, if you can break glass with sound then... It's not far off to say that when neuron pathways are forming in the brain they can get disrupted with the Ultrasonic sound waves. Maybe they form differently? Maybe some of them don't get to form altogether... Who knows without more studying? Another problem that has come up now is they can't even find a control group of pregnant woman who don't do ultrasounds to study. They can only find control groups of woman who have done it once, and more then once during term.