It's a post by our part-time contributor Aditya Sharma. He likes to write about tech & Health.
Notebook
(laptop) is a very efficient and important tool of many people
today.Businessmen, college students, housewives and professionals all
use laptops for one use or the other. However, it is better that men
learn that they risk losing their fertility with the excessive usage of
laptop computers.
Scientific
researches have proven that the higher is the scrotal temperature, the
higher is the possibility of damaging sperms and affecting the male's
fertility. Moreover, with the advent of Bluetooth and infrared
connections, where there are wireless links to the internet, more and
more men are using laptops on their laps than on a desk.
Men
usually keep their legs open wider than women to keep their testicles
at the right temperature, and for added comfort. However, with a laptop
on their laps, they tend to adapt a less comfortable position so that
they can balance the laptop on their laps. This leads to an increase in
body temperature that is found between the thighs.
It
has been recently proven that prolonged and continuous usage of laptops
on the laps tend to lead to damage to the fertility of the man. This
was because the use of laptops usually leads to about 2.7C increase
inthe scrotal temperature of the male. This has lead to more and more
men having decreased sperm levels where sperm counts seem to have
dropped by a third in ten years.
Most
of the reasons for this reduced sperm count is drug use, smoking,
alcohol and obesity. Besides this, pesticides, radioactive materials and
chemicals, and laptops too contribute to decrease in fertility in men.
The
human male body has a fixed testicular temperature to maintain usual
sperm production and development.Though it is not known the exact time
of heat exposure and frequency of exposure to heat that can lead
to reversible and irreversible production of sperms, it is known that
frequent usage of laptops can lead to irreversible or partially
reversible changes in the reproductive system of the male body.
This
is why it is advised that young men and teenage boys should limit the
use of laptops on their laps to avoid losing their fertility. It is not
advisable for young men or boys to also use wireless services on their laps to play games and do other work as they are sure to develop problems in ten years' time, when trying to have a family.
It
is thereby advised that men should use laptops on the desk; in fact,
anywhere else is possible, other than using it in the lap. Women don't
have to worry much about laptop computers on their laps, as so far,
there have been no studies on the impact of using laptop computers on
their laps.
Although
rare,there have been cases of severe burns from a laptop overhaeting on
an individual's lap. Burns can also come from combustion of laptop
batteries. Also rare, there have been instances of this happening when
the laptop is held in such a way that the venting fan is blocked. So
avoid bad postures and try avoid putting laptops on your laps.
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