Can a remote control cause cancer whether it is a normal remote control or a universal remote control? Many people asking the question if using remote control cause any chance of getting cancer since emitting radiation from remote control device. Here in this post, I am going to clarify your doubts. will over usage of remote control cause cancer, and other health issues when using remote control etc.
Many people asking since there is radiation emitting from a remote control and they are thinking that it may penetrate our skin and likely to cause skin cancer. this is the reason they are asking can a remote control cause skin or any kind of cancer.
This is quite interesting topic as well as knowledge topic about the health issues while using a remote control more. I have collected all the details regarding for this topic. It was very interesting for me to know the knowledge about the products that we are using everyday. Keep reading..
Can A Remote Control Cause Cancer?
No, a remote control in any manner not cause cancer. Because remote control is working based on Infrared radiation and is likely no harmful for human. There is only very negligible IR is emitted in between a remote control and the device. Even if very large amount of Infrared is emitting, still there were no chance of getting any cancer through the infrared radiation.
Infrared Radiation – Used On Remote Controls
As we know infrared radiation is used on remote controls and universal remote controls to sent the commands between the device and remote control. IR emitter on remote control is responsible for emitting and sending commands.
Understanding Radiations – Ionizing and Non-ionizing radiation
In order to justify that a remote control did not cause any cancer for human skin or any other parts, we need to understand something deep about the radiation. There are two kinds of radiation. one is ionizing radiation and other one is non-ionizing radiation.
Ionizing radiations:- Radiations emitted by x-rays and ultraviolet rays are called ionizing radiations. They are likely high frequency radiation and carrying high amount of energy which may cause damage to DNA and other cells in human body. They are not used in any home devices such as microwave, remote control, mobile phone signals etc since they are very harm for human being and likely high chance of getting damage our skin and body cells and cause cancer.
Non-Ionizing Radiations:- Non-Ionizing radiations like infrared radiation, microwaves etc have very low potency and since they are no harmful for human body cells. So they are used in remote controls, cell phone signals, micro waves, wifi modems etc. They use very less radiation for all these household devices.
Infrared Frequency range On Remote controls 300MHz-400MHz
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In electromagnetic spectrum, infrared radiation have frequency of 5.8 GHz which is low frequency radiation. Only less than that radiation is emitted when we are working a remote control.
Although Infrared radiation lies in the frequency range of 8.5GHZ in the electromagnetic spectrum, remote controls only needs the infrared frequency range between 300MHz – 400 MHz for perfectly working for device. Note that 300 – 400 MHz and not GHz. This is the commonly used in IR based remote controls. This 300-400 MHz frequency range is used but not confuse with modulation range. To emit a command as an infrared radiation between device and a device, only 30-60 KHz modulation rate is used. So only very negligible radiation is emitted when sending commands on remote controls.
Does Remote control cause any health related Issues?
What health issue remote control make since it is a small device, and there is no harm with the Infrared radiation emitted from it.? There is no any health related issue with remote control.
But one of the recommendation is your remote control should be free from germs and viruses and that may cause your child easily get infected and cause ill. So always keep remote control clean. You can use sanitizers to kill any germs on it.
Conclusion
So one of the non-ionizing radiation infrared radiation is used in all remote controls and universal remote controls. So they are not harmful for us human being body cells. And we understand only 30-60 KHz modulation rate is enough for sending ir commands for remote control. What this means? Yes, using remote control will not cause cancer in human. Use remote control without fear.
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