Tag: Ionizing Radiation

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Induction cooker, microwave oven, router… Are these household appliances really radioactive and harmful to people?

Xiao Zhang and Xiao Li have been married for several years and are finally pregnant recently. She is happy and careful at the same time, for fear that if something goes wrong, the baby will disappear. One day after dinner, she saw such a message in her circle of friends: Xiao Zhang immediately discussed with Xiao Li with a grain of salt: [Do you want to isolate all these “radiating” household appliances? ] Xiao Li is a radiologist who deals with radiation every day. He smiled when he looked at the content carefully: “madam, don’t be afraid, listen to me slowly.” Radiation is also divided into good and bad. Xiao Li: [Radiation is a physical term, which is generally divided Read More …

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Thyroid cancer is more and more common! I’ll teach you 5 tricks to prevent thyroid cancer.

Thyroid cancer is the most common malignant tumor in head and neck. In the past 20 years, the incidence rate of thyroid cancer in China has been on the rise, and the incidence rate of female thyroid cancer is higher than that of male. Our neighbor, South Korea, has the highest incidence rate of female thyroid cancer in the world. Why do people get thyroid cancer? Is there any way to prevent it? Why do you get thyroid cancer? The occurrence of thyroid cancer is the result of the combined action of many factors: Genetic factors Thyroid cancer is closely related to family history. If one or more of a person’s grandparents, grandparents, parents, siblings or children have thyroid cancer, Read More …

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Uncle unexpectedly fell into the railway station security check device! Will the radiation he received damage his health?

Recently, a big uncle startled the police at the police station of Anhui Jinzhai Railway Station. On that day, when the big ye passed the security check, he fell on the track of the security check machine and walked through the security check machine because he did not stand firm when putting his bag. Luckily, the uncle was not injured. But in the comment area under the news, some people were worried: After all this ordeal, will the uncle be exposed to radiation? Is it harmful to health? Security check instrument, like medical X-ray machine, uses X-ray irradiation to obtain the internal structure image of the detected object. However, the radiation dose of security check instrument is much smaller than Read More …