Harmful Effects of Radiation on Your Health
Side Effects of Exposure to Radiation

What are the harmful effects of radiation?

Side effects of frequent and over exposure to radiation either coming from the sun, tanning booth, or medical treatment are dangerous. Its health implications are many. One of the side effects is it injures your cells.

It poses a lot of dangers on your health such as:

• it produces free radicals and harmful effects of these free radicals are damage of the DNA of your gene and the other nearby DNAs,

• it causes harmful mutations in the DNA that may lead either to a malignant tumor or to the death of the cell, and

• it damages the RNA and the proteins that oversee vital cell processes.

At low doses and infrequent exposure to ionizing radiation, cellular damage can be rapidly repaired. Tumors also don't grow overnight.

It causes cancer when its side effects are extensive cell damage or genetic mutations that can't be repaired.

Either death of a cell or cell damage happens with frequent exposure to it. Failure of cells to replace whatever died and inability of tissues to function may also happen due to extremely high doses of harmful ionizing radiation.

Effects on tissues and organs in your body differ in terms of sensitivity. Organs highly sensitive to ionizing radiation are the:

• blood-forming organs like the bone marrow,

• thyroid glands,

• reproductive organs

• skin, (If you would like more info, see What is Skin Cancer - Facts, Tyeps, Signs and Causes)

• bones and teeth,

• muscles, and

• lungs. ((If you would like more info, see Facts About Lung Cancer)

The nervous system is the least sensitive to the dangers ionizing radiation brings.

If you want to know the types of cancer caused by radiation, see Different Cancers: Side Effects of Radiation.

To know how to protect yourself, see Prevention Strategies Against Radiation.

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