You’re probably guilty of it too: sleeping with your phone under your pillow, or at least close to you. For a late night TikTok scroll or as an alarm clock for the next morning, having your phone close to you in bed can be very useful. But it’s not very healthy for you…
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Take your phone to bed
We probably don’t have to explain to anyone anymore why excessive use of your phone is bad for your health. Not only can you work against it mentally, more and more people are also experiencing physical deficiencies related to their telephone use.
More and more users on TikTok are saying that it is extremely bad for you to have your phone on the charger under your pillow. And let’s be honest: most of us sleep with our phone on the charger under the pillow or on the bedside table.
Radiations
Your phone emits a lot of radiation while charging. Here too, it is quite logical that these radiations are not necessarily good for you. In a viral video on TikTok, someone shows how much radiation your phone emits when it is on the charger. These are the same radiations that all go to your head and body when you are taking your daily nap.
Long-term exposure to this radiation, also known as electromotive force, can cause tumors, headaches, fatigue, insomnia, cancer and many other symptoms, according to the TikTok. Time to reduce our exposure to it, so…
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Comments
In the comments below the video, many people can relate to each other and telephone use. For example, many people say that they lie in bed with their phone on the charger while watching the video. “Watching this while my phone is on the charger literally lying in bed 👁️👄 👁️”, and: “I feel restless and cant sleep when my phone is charging. Now I know why”. Someone else has a solution for the headache he or she got from having a phone in bed. “This is a thing…. I used to wake up with headaches.. I put my phone to airplane mode every night.” So put your phone in airplane mode when you go to sleep!
