Future Health Frontiers Q&A Women’s Health

Will not wearing radiation protection clothing affect the gender of the fetus?

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Asked on:Mar 27, 2026 01:14 PM

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  • Bayard Bayard

    Mar 27, 2026

      There has always been a saying: in Hospital Most people who work in the radiology department give birth to daughters. Some people think that those who are often exposed to radiation male , resulting in Y with weak vitality sperm If the baby dies first, the chance of giving birth to a girl is particularly high. Is this really what happened?

      The reporter interviewed radiologists and experts from multiple hospitals, and they all said that there is no scientific basis for such a statement. An expert from the imaging center of a large hospital said: “It may be that during a certain period of time or in a certain region, there were births of girls or babies. boy There are many phenomena, but overall, among the children of our department staff, the proportion of boys and girls is still balanced, and there is no such phenomenon that most of the children are girls. ”

      Experts say that if protection is not done properly, X-rays will cause damage to the human body's immune system, blood system, etc., but will not affect the birth of boys or girls. Xu Youdi also said that she had not heard of such a thing, nor had she noticed that most of the children born to the radiology department staff in the hospital were girls. It’s time to “rehabilitate” computers. Many pregnant women choose radiation-proof clothing. An important reason is that they are afraid of computer radiation.

      computer radiation fetus Does it really have an impact? Are other household appliances not harmful to the fetus? In fact, such worries are unnecessary. Peking University Fertility healthy The institute's many years of follow-up surveys have shown that the amount of electromagnetic radiation from computers is safe for the human body, including pregnant women, and is also safe for sperm, eggs, fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses. In real life, it is accidental for individual computer operators to have miscarriages or give birth to deformed babies, and computers cannot be "convicted" on this basis.

      Since 1991, the institute has conducted a nationwide follow-up study on 20 million children from pregnancy to 7 years old, looking for influencing factors and preventive measures for birth defects in newborns in my country, including the use of computers as one of the items investigated. Experts have not found any adverse effects on the development of babies when pregnant women use computers.

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