Are anti-wave patches to stick on telephones effective or are they absolutely useless? Many of these products promise to reduce electromagnetic waves by 96%, even 99% for some brands.
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Anti-radiation patches simply stick to the back of mobile phones. These are just extra-flat pellets that cost an average of 30 euros on the internet.
We may be tempted because influencers, among others, happily recommend them on social networks, particularly targeting young people and pregnant women. If, of course, doing this promotion pays off for the influencers, does it pay off for the user? Concretely, by sticking these patches on our smartphone, will we be well protected?
Unfortunately, you don’t have to dream. As the Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety Agency (ANSES) reminds us, these patches have no proven efficacy and even no utility. Worse, as confided to 60 million consumers a professor emeritus of the Sorbonne, Guy Pujolle, these patches are even counterproductive. Because, if a telephone is prevented from transmitting, it will increase its power by spraying the user even more strongly with waves. It’s the sprinkler watered!
So what should you do to protect yourself? The best solution is to use a hands-free kit on a daily basis. This device keeps the phone away from your head and thus effectively limits exposure to waves. If, for the moment, there is still no scientific evidence of health effects related to exposure to these famous waves, research continues to assess possible effects on the development of cancers or fertility. Caution is needed, therefore, but it is better to prefer the good old hands-free kits to these patches, real mirrors to the larks.