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Medical Forum / General / Vision / August 2008IR And A Babies Sight From TV Monitors With IR Lamps ?
Hello, I imagine some of you foilks might have an opinion on this - There are many offerings these day for TV monitors to watch a babies room while they sleep. They all seem to offer IR lamps to flood the room with IR so that the TV camera can observe the child in total blackness. Have there been any articles regarding the eyesight safety implications to a baby in an IR flooded room ? Opinions on ? Looked, but couldn't find anything. A bit surprising; I would have thought that there would at least be articles or opinion the safety implications for eyesight. Thanks, Bob Hi, I actually feel that you (or others) are needlessly concerning yourselves with the dangers of infrared. I googled it and I couldn't find any severe effects of long-term exposure to infrared radiation and all I could find was that it may cause overheating. Apart from that, I found a great host of websites that actually extolled the presence of IR in the atmosphere, claiming numerous health benefits, probably some exaggurated but on the whole they seemed to be recommending it instead of warning against it. As for why you would want to have a TV to spy on your baby 24/7 is a mystery to me. Like some kind of boogie monster is going crawl out of the curtains and gobble them up in the night time or something? Humans and parents have gone thousands of years without needing to keep a constant watchful eye over their children while they were sleeping, so why start now? Seems like parents are just getting more paranoid of midnight attackers that they heard from scare induction programmes like crimewatch and so on. Really, it's daft. Anyway, these were a few of my sources for what I said above: http://home.clara.net/darvill/emag/emaginfra.htm http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_dangers_of_infrared_radiation http://infrared-sauna-spot.info/Benefits_of_Infrared_Sauna.html > As for why you would > want to have a TV to spy on your baby 24/7 is a mystery to me. Like > some kind of boogie monster is going crawl out of the curtains and > gobble them up in the night time or something? Humans and parents have > gone thousands of years without needing to keep a constant watchful > eye over their children while they were sleeping, so why start now? Please note that the author of this statement is allegedly 16 years old and presumably childless. > > As for why you would > > want to have a TV to spy on your baby 24/7 is a mystery to me. Like [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Please note that the author of this statement is allegedly 16 years > old and presumably childless. Yeah, but I have loads of relatives and friend's who are parents and do father/mother several children and I haven't seem them ever worry like lunatics about what might happen to their baby during the night. Your mileage may vary. >> As for why you would > > Please note that the author of this statement is allegedly 16 years > old and presumably childless. Yikes! Another thing I want to add that if infra-red rays actually did pose any threat to a person's eyesight, we would have surely heard of it long ago, whether by conjecture and anecdote or by clinical study. Besides, we're practically always exposed to them, since almost every object emits some infrared, including human's themselves, not to mention that natural everyday sunlight we come into contact with for most of our lives gives it off in high intensity. I have not heard one single case of the slightest ocular damage, let alone alone serious defects such as blindness or whatever, resulting from direct IR radiation. That says a lot by itself! So to sum things up, no I don't think there is any real life or rational/realistic danger that could result from a baby's room being flooded with infrared, any more than there are dangers from walking down a long spiral of stairs or from going for a casual jog around the block. > Another thing I want to add that if infra-red rays actually did pose > any threat to a person's eyesight, we would have surely heard of it [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > there are dangers from walking down a long spiral of stairs or from > going for a casual jog around the block While not relevant in this particular instance, there is considerable evidence that infra red can have therapeutic value. Appears to act as a mitochondrial agonist. > > Another thing I want to add that if infra-red rays actually did pose > > any threat to a person's eyesight, we would have surely heard of it [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > evidence that infra red can have therapeutic value. Appears to act as a > mitochondrial agonist. About infrared safety: infrared is harmless unless its intensity is extremely high, which might occur if you are a glassblower, or somebody working with infrared lasers. Just to check you might hold your hand in front of the IR-lamp. If the lamp burns a hole in your skin, it might damage your eyes as well. > Looked, but couldn't find anything. A bit surprising; I would have > thought that there would at least be articles or opinion the safety > implications for eyesight. How much heat does this baby-cam generate? -MT |
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