Why should you consider minimizing (or totally avoiding) your baby’s exposure to ultrasound?

Most people think doppler and ultrasounds during pregnancy are "completely safe" because their use is so widespread… but do we really know?

Ultrasound and dopplers are high-frequency sound waves and they are used in medicine for two main purposes:

1. Imaging and Diagnosis

2. Therapeutic Cell Destruction: such as destroying tumors in organs like the liver, prostate, breast, and uterus; treatment of uterine fibroids; destruction of kidney stones; management of prostate disease; and even some neurological applications.

This means that the same technology which we are using on our developing babes, in other settings, serves to destroy cells.

While many studies support the safety of ultrasound during pregnancy, others raise questions.

Some research warns of potential cell damage to the fetus’s nervous and immune systems, among other concerns.

Animal research has shown that longer durations of ultrasound exposure can be associated with abnormal neuronal migration in the developing brain.

Ultrasound and Doppler offerunknown risks which we do not fully understand, and almost nobody talks about it.

Oficial guidelines recommend using ultrasound only when medically necessary.

Some important questions to consider before agreeing to every routine exam…

• What can be done with the information obtained by doing this ultrasound?

• Could a fetoscope be used instead of a Doppler to minimize exposure?

• How safe is safe enough for you?