Sleep with your phone 1.5 meters away? It's not the radiation...
author: Amber Feng
2025-02-28
Putting your phone next to your pillow can cause cancer?
There are not enough studies to prove that cell phone radiation causes cancer.
Radiation is generally divided into ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation, such as hospital CT, X-ray belongs to ionizing radiation, more than a certain dose will cause harm to our health.
- Radiation is generally divided into ionizing radiation and non-ionizing radiation. For example, CT scans and X-rays in hospitals fall under ionizing radiation, which can be harmful to our health if the dose exceeds a certain level.

Mobile phones emit radiofrequency energy, a low level of non-ionizing radiation, which is relatively safe and basically does not harm health or cause cancer risk.
Mobile phone radiation is not terrible, afraid that you can not help but play mobile phones before going to bed, that is the culprit affecting health, will directly affect your vision, sleep quality and cervical spine.
Some small partners also have a habit, like to put the mobile phone on the bed before going to bed at night to charge the electricity for a whole night, or after charging the charger has been plugged in, which is very dangerous.
A woman in Tianjin put her mobile phone on the bed to charge it before going to bed and it suddenly exploded at 2 am. It's a good thing you sleep with your back to your phone, or you're gonna get your face blown up.

A woman in Guangdong province escaped injury after her phone exploded while she was charging it before going to bed and was choked by smoke when she woke up. Her pillow and bed were charred.
So after charging the mobile phone must remember to unplug the charger!
It is important to know that the charger is not unplugged for a long time, not only will increase the power consumption, but also will continue to heat, accelerate the aging of the charger, and seriously lead to explosions, fires and other accidents.
- Leaving the charger plugged in for extended periods not only increases power consumption but also causes it to continuously generate heat, accelerating the aging of the charger. In severe cases, this can lead to accidents such as explosions or fires.
How can we prevent and avoid dangers when we charge our mobile phones?
How to prevent and avoid danger?
- Choose the right charging environment
Try not to charge in too cold or overheating environment, high temperature will cause the battery heat is too high, easy to explode, if the temperature is too low, the mobile phone battery protection mechanism will cause slow charging.
Avoid charging your device in extremely cold or hot environments. High temperatures can cause the battery to overheat, increasing the risk of explosion, while low temperatures may trigger the phone's battery protection mechanism, resulting in slower charging.
- Use the original charger
When charging, use the original charger as much as possible, and try not to mix different mobile phone chargers to avoid damaging the battery and causing explosion accidents.
- No charging by the pillow
In order to facilitate charging while playing with the mobile phone, many people like to put the charger on the bedside or pillow, but such a practice if the charger short circuit caused spontaneous combustion, pillows and other flammable materials may aggravate the fire, really dangerous.
- Don't play with your phone while it's charging
Let the phone charge well when charging, try not to make phone calls or play games while charging, which will lead to a rapid increase in heat, there is a great security risk.
- Avoid long charging periods
Try not to let the phone charge overnight, if you find that the phone is abnormally hot, you should stop using it immediately. At the same time, it is not advisable to leave the charger on the socket for a long time, which will accelerate its aging process and increase the risk of fire.
So the question is, where do you keep your phone while you sleep?
It is recommended to place it 1.5 meters away, so that it is not easy to reach out, which can avoid staying up late because of playing with mobile phones, and can also prevent the risk of spontaneous combustion.
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