Warning if you use a laptop on your lap!
Laptop can cook your fertility
-- Bloomberg News
Posted January 3 2005
Men and teenage boys who use laptop computers may be damaging their fertility, an American college study indicates.
The combination of the heat generated by the computer and the posture needed to balance the machine on the lap increases the temperature around a man's scrotum, according to researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
The study found that sitting with thighs together while balancing a laptop causes temperatures in the scrotum to rise by as much as 2.8 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit), compared with an increase of 2.1 degrees Celsius when sitting with legs together without a computer. The research was published in the December issue of Reproduction Journal.
During the study, the median temperature of the computers used increased to 40 degrees Celsius after one hour, from a starting temperature of almost 31 degrees Celsius. It took only 15 minutes for the temperature in the area around the scrotum to rise by 1 degree, an amount sufficient to affect testicular function, said lead researcher Yefim Sheynkin, director of male infertility and microsurgery at the university, in a statement on the journal's Web site.
-- Bloomberg News
Posted January 3 2005
Men and teenage boys who use laptop computers may be damaging their fertility, an American college study indicates.
The combination of the heat generated by the computer and the posture needed to balance the machine on the lap increases the temperature around a man's scrotum, according to researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
The study found that sitting with thighs together while balancing a laptop causes temperatures in the scrotum to rise by as much as 2.8 degrees Celsius (5 degrees Fahrenheit), compared with an increase of 2.1 degrees Celsius when sitting with legs together without a computer. The research was published in the December issue of Reproduction Journal.
During the study, the median temperature of the computers used increased to 40 degrees Celsius after one hour, from a starting temperature of almost 31 degrees Celsius. It took only 15 minutes for the temperature in the area around the scrotum to rise by 1 degree, an amount sufficient to affect testicular function, said lead researcher Yefim Sheynkin, director of male infertility and microsurgery at the university, in a statement on the journal's Web site.
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