Why is dangerous to stand in front of a microwave oven?

Answer 1

Who says you can't? Given a properly working microwave oven, the microwaves will not have any effect on either mother or child. Whether pregnant or not, if you had a microwave oven which was leaking enough microwaves to cause tissue damage, you would absorb some of these microwaves, which would cause an intense heat, and hopefully you would have enough sense to move away from it. Even if you didn't move immediately, your body has a built-in cooling system called blood which would move the heat away from areas of your body with good circulation. This should be enough to prevent immediate tissue damage. Areas without good circulation, such as the corneas of your eyes, might sustain significant amounts of permanent damage. Even with a longer exposure, microwaves are non-ionic, and can not cause chemical changes, mutations, or cancer. Again, any sort of damage would only occur if your microwave had significant leakage. If you have dropped your microwave or otherwise damaged it, you should have it checked for leakage, just to be on the safe side. Safety limits for microwaves are extremely conservative, and there is a lot of leeway between the maximum safety limit and the amount it would take to cause even minor tissue damage. In fact, cellphones use microwave radiation to communicate. If you're going to shy away from microwave ovens while pregnant, you best take that cellphone out of your pocket, too! If you've ever used a cellphone while pregnant, you've likely already exposed yourself and your baby to more microwave radiation in the length of the phone conversation than can be found nearby an operating microwave oven. In fact, you naturally emit microwaves yourself.

Answer 2

Microwaves use low frequency radiation to cook your food. Radiation can be harmful to anyone, including an unborn baby. Although this is true, it is not necessarily a reason to worry. Lower frequency radiation is potentially less harmful than higher frequency radiation, which can cause a series of health issues for you and/or your baby. Microwaves are also built to keep radiation in. Microwave radiation can leak through faulty design/manufacturing, product damage/wear, and through a lack of cleaning. It is important to keep your microwave clean.

Answer 3

The information contained in DNA is used by each cell to create the proteins needed for life, which support the cells of the body and help govern cell behavior. Mutations to DNA lead to changes in the proteins the cell produces, which modify the way the cell behaves, and can ultimately lead to diseases such as cancer. Exposure to radiation is considered a mutagen, meaning that it causes mutations in DNA. This is why exposure to radiation increases the risk of cancer.

basically, standing too close to a microwave is dangerous as there is a chance that you may be exposed to a bit of radiation causing a mutation. But the people who make microwaves obviously don't want to make a product that kills their customers, as they wouldn't have any if it did! That's why microwaves have mesh doors- to stop radiation particles escaping. Still, there is a chance that a bit might sneak out...... moral of the story= its best just to keep a safe distance (1metre-ish) :)

Answer 4

None. The baby is safe and so are you. It´s not like you do it with the door open.

Microwaves can leak. Make sure that the door is not faulty and keep the seal around the door clean. If the microwave is an old model plan on getting a new one as the technology in new models continually reduce the leakage.

New microwaves have little leakage and should not be a concern.

The energy in microwaves decrease by a square law. So even standing a couple of feet away decreases the energy logarithmically.

Don't press your face or stomach against the glass while it is running.