Sleeping with the phone near head is detrimental to the emotional and physical health of adolescents, according to John Romero, spokesman for Addiction Digital, who says that to avoid this situation, “parents should take steps to control the use technology during the night. ”

In his view, “is essential to maintain your computer, mobile TV and beyond the reach of teenagers while they are supposed to sleep ‘, as it may have implications for their health as” not adequate rest and therefore the body does not make the roles you have performed during the night and the young crawl chronic fatigue.

According to Romero, there are other consequences such as lower educational achievement. “The teenager who pass midnight waiting for a message or to be awakened at four am not going to sleep well and will come to school tired. Fall asleep in class and it is impossible to hear what the professor explained. The result will be a few weeks later when the going gets suspended, “he warned at this situation, in his view contributed to parental neglect,” because they let them do what they feel like it because they see nothing wrong in having the whole mobile night with them. Do not even think they can send or receive messages at three in the morning.

Currently, according to data provided in the Survey on Equipment and Use of Information Technologies and Communication in 2009 of households National Institute of Statistics, two and a half million Spanish children between ten and fifteen, who are most affected and losers can be seen by these situations, 68.4 percent have their own mobile phone, “who generally uses his whim,” recalled Romero.