Scientists serious about 'electricity sickness' claims
Reports by Nic Fleming, Health Correspondent
(Filed: 24/01/2005)
Scientists and health advisers are taking the claims of people who say
electricity makes them ill seriously for the first time.
The National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) is carrying out a review of
existing scientific studies into "electromagnetic hypersensitivity" (EHS).
Brian Stein suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity
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Two studies into the condition, funded with £750,000 from the Department of
Health and the telecommunications industry, are already under way.
Sir William Stewart, the government's adviser on radiation, has called for more
research into the issue.
Some researchers believe a proportion of the population suffers ill health,
with symptoms including fatigue, severe headaches and skin problems, because of
exposure to electromagnetic fields. Other scientists say there is no evidence.
The Swedish government, which recognised EHS as a physical impairment in 2000,
calculates that 3.1 per cent of its population – 200,000 people – suffer
from the condition. A recent warning by Sir William, head of the NRPB and the
Health Protection Agency, that parents should limit their children's use of
mobile phones received widespread publicity.
However, his suggestion that another section of the population, as well as the
young, could have extra sensitivity to exposure to either radio frequency
fields from mobiles or electromagnetic fields in general did not.
The NRPB has commissioned Dr Neil Irvine, of the Health Protection Agency, to
carry out a review of existing scientific literature on EHS.
His report, focusing on symptoms, prognosis and treatment, will be published in
the summer.
The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research programme, funded by the
Government and the telecommunications industry, is spending £8.6 million on 29
studies, two of which will investigate EHS.
A team at King's College, London, is looking at whether mobile phones cause
symptoms such as headaches, nausea and fatigue in those who claim to be
hypersensitive and those who do not.
Researchers at the University of Essex are exposing two groups of volunteers to
signals from a mobile mast to test if cognitive functions such as attention
span and memory are affected. Half will be people who say they suffer EHS.
Dr David Dowson, a former GP who is now a complementary medicine specialist
based in Bath, said he had seen around 10 patients he believed to be suffering
from EHS. "I think the condition is increasing in prevalence, because we are
living in a more electrically polluted environment."
Olle Johansson, associate professor of neuroscience at the Karolinska Institute
in Sweden, has been studying EHS for 20 years.
He has shown in experiments that there is an increase in the number of mast
cells near the surface of skin when exposed to electromagnetic fields, a
similar reaction to that when it is exposed to radioactive material.
He said: "If you put a radio near a source of EMFs you will get interference.
The human brain has an electric field so if you put sources of EMFs nearby, it
is not surprising that you get interference, interaction with systems and
damage to cells and molecules.''
Others say the condition is in the mind.
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| User: "The Psychedelic Pope" |
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24 Jan 2005 04:18:44 PM |
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As a retired researcher with my doctorate in Megnetobiology
I agree with everything in that post. I've been disabled ever
sense 1978 as a result of electromagnetic exposure. Humans
are a living electrical collective and as such are very effected
by any and all types of EM fields, waves and pulses. Our own
Sun is the EM source of our life on this planet.
With all the man made EM exposure we've generated over the
past 100 years - we've outdone ourselves so to speak and what
will be the final result will most likely be a planatary control
species (namely human beings) driving theirselves into a total
mental and physical melt down. We should have left mother
nature alone.
Danny Craine for President in 2008
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| User: "The Psychedelic Pope" |
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24 Jan 2005 04:20:43 PM |
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As a retired researcher with my doctorate in Megnetobiology
I agree with everything in that post. I've been disabled ever
sense 1978 as a result of electromagnetic exposure. Humans
are a living electrical collective and as such are very effected by any
and all types of EM fields, waves and pulses.
Our own Sun is the EM source of our life on this planet.
With all the man made EM exposure we've generated over the
past 100 years - we've out done ourselves so to speak and what
will be the final result will most likely be a planatary control
species (namely human beings) driving theirselves into a total mental
and physical melt down. We should have left mother nature alone.
Danny Crane for President in 2008
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| User: "Metal Rabbit" |
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21 Feb 2005 10:39:51 AM |
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I have a friend who has a form of electromagnetic sensitivity in which
she feels "pulls in" to a strong electomagnetic field. She also gets
this feeling near satellite dishes. Batteries make her feel like she
has shocks in her hands. She started having this problem after she had
a serious concussion. I have heard of one other person having this
problem after an amputation and his stump involuntarily pointing
straight at the electromagnetic source.
A serious situation has developed for my friend, and I'm looking for
medical or scientific journal documentation on her electromagnetic
sensitivity. Thank you.
Sheila
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| User: "Grantland" |
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21 Feb 2005 10:58:02 AM |
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"Metal Rabbit" <metalrabbit2004@yahoo.com> wrote:
I have a friend who has a form of electromagnetic sensitivity in which
she feels "pulls in" to a strong electomagnetic field. She also gets
this feeling near satellite dishes. Batteries make her feel like she
has shocks in her hands. She started having this problem after she had
a serious concussion. I have heard of one other person having this
problem after an amputation and his stump involuntarily pointing
straight at the electromagnetic source.
A serious situation has developed for my friend, and I'm looking for
medical or scientific journal documentation on her electromagnetic
sensitivity. Thank you.
Sheila
Wire her up to the mains. This will purge the problem. Your wlcome.
wally
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