Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome

[Kritters]

Sorry but I took this from the link so have to paste it all (my highlighted parts didn't show up)

Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome (EHS) is still viewed with skepticism by most scientists and medical professionals. The World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a workshop in Prague in October 2004 to review the more than 30 studies on the topic. The editors of the workshop stated:
"There are also some indications that these symptoms may be due to pre-existing psychiatric conditions as well as stress reactions as a result of worrying about believed EMF health effects, rather than the EMF exposure itself." But added, "Whatever its cause, EHS is a real and sometimes a disabling problem for the affected persons."
So is it real, or is it just another problem in your head?
With everything I know about the health dangers associated with electromagnetic fields (EMF) and information-carrying radio waves from cell phones, WiFi routers and cell phone towers, I’m convinced EHS is a real and looming health disaster.
Sweden is leading the pack in acknowledging and dealing with this issue, mainly due to the progress made by FEB - The Swedish Association for the ElectroSensitive. The association produces and distributes educational literature that has helped raise awareness about the phenomenon around the world.
Mast Action UK is doing similar work in Great Britain, as well as the Electromagnetic Radiation Alliance in Australia.
There are signs that acceptance is spreading, especially in Europe. Just last week, the French magazine Connexion reported that four libraries in Paris have turned off the WiFi connections they installed at the end of 2007 after staff claimed they were causing health problems.
Why is WiFi Potentially Worse than Other Radiation?
Electomagnetic fields are all around us, no matter where you live these days. They emanate from power lines, televisions, household electrical wiring, appliances and microwaves. Then you have the information-carrying radio waves of cell phones, cell phone towers and wireless internet connections.
WiFi is a kind of radio wave that operates at either 2.4 or 5 gigahertz – slightly higher than your cell phone. Since they’re designed to allow for transmission of very large amounts of data, WiFi radio waves also emit greater amounts electromagnetic radiation.

What are the Signs and Symptoms of EHS?
Lucinda Grant, director of the U.S. support group Electrical Sensitivity Network, and author of two books: The Electrical Sensitivity Handbook and Workstation Radiation, compares electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) to that of multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), which is an apt comparison as both groups are environmental canaries.
Chemical sensitivity was also once thought to originate in the minds of hysterical housewives.
Many times, those suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivity will also be highly sensitive to chemicals or suffer from MCS. Other at-risk groups for developing EHS include those with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and people experiencing mercury toxicity from dental amalgams.
This makes logical sense since your nervous system is a primary site impacted by both chemicals and electromagnetic fields. And if your nervous system has been damaged from toxic exposures you may also be more susceptible to EHS as well.
The five most common symptoms of electromagnetic hypersensitivity are:
1. skin itch/rash/flushing/burning, and/or tingling
2. confusion/poor concentration, and/or memory loss
3. fatigue and weakness
4. headache
5. chest pain and heart problems
Less commonly reported symptoms include:
• nausea
• panic attacks
• insomnia
• seizures
• ear pain/ringing in the ears
• feeling a vibration
• paralysis
• dizziness
Electomagnetic Fields Produce More Potent Mycotoxins
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of conducting an interview with Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, in which we discussed the impact of electromagnetic fields and radio waves on your body (among other things. The complete audio interview and transcript is available to all my Inner Circle members).
Dr. Klinghardt reminded me that Dr. Robert Becker -- in his second important book Cross Currents that came out in the late 80s or early 90s -- found that when you expose a bacterial culture to abnormal electromagnetic fields, the bacteria believe they are being attacked by your immune system and start producing much more virulent toxinx as a protective mechanism.
Klinghardt believes that it’s possible that some 50 percent of chronic infections are caused, and/or aggravated, by electromagnetic field exposure, leading to syndromes like chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and other chronic pain syndromes.
Why Your Laptop May be More Harmful than Your PC
Another fascinating tidbit of information gleaned from my interview with Dr. Klinghardt is that laptops are far more hazardous to your health than desktops. As they heat up, the circuitry board out-gasses metals such as beryllium, and as the plastic warms it out-gasses flame retardants like PBDE, all of which adds to your toxic load.
It would be prudent to only use your laptop short-term, such as when traveling, and using a desktop for your day-to-day work. Preferably positioning your hard drive as far away from you as possible, with fans blowing air away from where you sit.
Heavy Metal Toxicity Increases Your Risk of Electromagnetic Sensitivity
Last but not least, the issue of heavy metal toxicity in relation to electromagnetic and radio wave exposure may be one of the most significant and convincing pieces of the EHS puzzle.
Dr. Yoshiaki Omura’s research shows that the more your system is contaminated with heavy metals from silver amalgam fillings, eating contaminated fish, living downstream from coal burning power plants and so forth, the more your body becomes a virtual antenna that actually concentrates radiation, making it far more destructive.
But there’s also an additional overlap that can influence and increase the risk of damage to your health.
If you have accumulated toxic metals in your brain, your brain becomes like an antenna, picking up more cell phone radiation, which in turn can cause the microbes in your system to overreact and create more potent mycotoxins. This can create a never-ending vicious cycle between the microbes and metals in your body and your exposure to electromagnetic fields, which can lead to hypersensitivity.
What Can You Do to Protect Yourself and Your Family?
First, you need to understand that your nutrition and your daily lifestyle can make you either accumulate more toxic metals or help you excrete them over time.
Eating a healthy diet tailored to your nutritional type and maintaining a regular exercise regimen, as well as detoxing on a regular basis, forms the foundation of optimal health, and can help reduce your toxic load.
Two other factors that play a vital role here are: sleeping well and getting plenty of appropriate sun exposure.
Why?
Because sleep and sunlight have a direct impact on your melatonin levels, and melatonin is actually one of the most potent detox agents that eliminate metals from your brain naturally.
Increasing your melatonin production can be done in three ways:
1. Sleeping in absolute darkness
2. Getting at least an hour of exposure to bright daylight each day
3. Reducing the electro-pollution in your sleeping quarters (i.e. remove electrical alarm clocks, cordless home phones and wireless phones from your bedroom)
Melatonin is not only the most important detox agent for your brain; it is also a very important anti-inflammatory. And as I stated earlier, electromagnetic radiation can make inflammation worse by creating more potent mycotoxins, so reducing inflammation is vital.
And, although you can certainly take melatonin as a supplement, I’m not at all convinced that swallowing it provides the same benefit as having your brain produce it the way it was designed to.
A 1997 Australian Senate Discussion Paper also confirms the importance of reducing electro-pollution in your bedroom, as researchers found that even low level (12 milliGauss) exposure to 50-60 hertz electromagnetic fields can significantly reduce your melatonin production.
For other recommendations on how to protect yourself and your family from cell phone radiation, please review my list of guidelines from last week’s article, Now Half the World Has a Cell Phone - - Why That is a Brain Tumor Epidemic Waiting to Happen.

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So, let's see....

For the past 3 years, my laptop sat all snuggie-like on my lap most of the day and night,

I live just a few miles by water from a local coal burning power plant

I live just across the bay from a wastewater treatment plant

I've been diagnosed with tons of mercury and iron in my body

Use my cell phone with major regularity right up next to my little ear in front of my little brain.

Been bitten by ticks on several occasions.

Did I leave anything out?

Having a bad day, are we?
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In any event, the information in this article could be beneficial to us, I think. I'm going to sell my house and move to a deserted island and make pottery. Wanna come?

xoxo
Kritts

[Jo]

Great thread and information there Kritty!!

My morgs is VERY sensitive to train lines. The minute I started commuting, was the minute my morgs turned into SUPER morgs.

Does anyone get the weird buzzing/ringing in your ears?? About 6 months ago I got a CB radio transmission, with people talking - freaked me right out!

If I can make simple ashtrays, i'm there....

Jo xxx

[Kritters]

OMG JO!!!

That was YOU I was transmitting to??? LOL

No, better than ashtrays.....morg's dishes. ;-)

xoxoxo
Kritts

[joao]

Hello

My name is joao and I'm 35 years old and healthy until now.

I did a MRI (magnetic ressonance - 3 T) exam to my cervical, without contrast.

After this exam, I went to bed and woke up in the middle of the night with a burning sensation all over my back. I looked in the mirror and my back and shoulders were full of wrinkles

(depressions). It seemed like a dermographism but with a burning sensation associated (a kind of mechanical /dynamic allodynia). I asked my wife to take a pictures:

s3.amazonaws.com/medhelp_images/profiles/1070027_fs?1258314187

(there is the http missing)

I also had a strange "diarreha" and my hair and genitals burn for some months.

After 7 months this kind of "allergy" is still here. Every time I brush or make pressure to my body, there are these depressions on my skin and this burning sensation. I consulted a dermatologist and I tried Zyrtek but it didn't work, and my levels of histamine are all right after a blood analysis.

I'm afraid the MRI damaged my small nerve fiber in the skin. Do you think I could suffer from nerve damage? And due to that am I now suffering from Neuropathic Pain? How can I know what the MRI did to me? I’m very worried…

I surfed the net and saw a lot of people complaining about sensory/burning feelings after doing MRIs. I also got acquainted with something called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity as an emerging illness, which now I'm afraid I suffer from. And maybe this is the cause of many idiopathic skin allergies or other kind of illness.

Thus, I was wondering if you could help me solving this mystery, because no DRs can, or don't care about it. In fact, nobody seems to care, not even the place where I did the MRI. The hospital (Hospital da Luz - Lisbon) says they follow FDA guidelines, and it's all. Everybody always says MRIs don't do anything to one's body.

Is there something I can do? How can I make this allergic reaction go away? How can I know what damage it made to my body? Does an allergic reaction necessary means that there was tissue damage?

If OMS recognize that there is a disease called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity why aren’t people warned about it before doing MRIs?

Please help me. I have a small baby that needs a healthy father.

Thank you,

joao

PS: I did an EMG which turned out to be normal and have no disease that can justify this kind of burning sensation/Neuropathic pain on my body. It all started with the MRI.

PS2: Is there any forum created specificaly for this ilness? Or entity I could file a complaint?

[Kritters]

Hello Joao,

Welcome here to our forum. We don't have all the answers, but have many sleepless nights trying to find them.

I'm sure someone or many here will offer at least some ideas/thoughts to begin to help you.

One question I have is whether there is something in your body that reacted to the MRI. Noing nothing about anything scientific, I just go on thoughts and research to answer my questions. Have you ever been tested for heavy metals like mercury or aluminum or iron? Do you have mercury fillings in your teeth?

Hang in there with that beautiful baby....we're all in this together.

Kritts

[joao]

Thank you Kritter. I realy apreciate your help. These have been very difficult times fo me. I never been tested for heavy metal in my blood, because I always been healthy until now. Well this is not totaly true. I'm a teacher of computer science, and I spent a lot of time in front of my computer monitor (wich is still a CRT ). Last year I had some episodical arrytmias. Again, I did some tests and Drs told me everything was alright with me. It should be stress related. In fact I spent a lot of time in front of my computer monitor on that days.

Another thing That I didn't tell you (because I even feel ashamed) is that I did two MRIs, despite the adverse effects of the first one. Why? Because Everybody told me that MRIs were inoquous. After the second one, i was almost dying. The allergic skin effec/burn spread to all my body. I feel so stupid falling on the same mistake twice.

By the way, boths MRI don't show nothing. I only did it because of I fell down.

I'm just wondering if there are more people with this kind of sensivity to MRIs. I'm so affraid what it did inside my body, specialy to my peripheral nerves.

Thank you,

Joao,

PS: Sorry about my english

[Kritters]

Joao~

We all do stupid things, you know? Here we are going by what the doctors tell us and they are effin CLUELESS. (majority of the average docs anyway). I'm thinking you should go to an accupuncturist. Also maybe someone who is in the electrical field. And get rid of your heavy metals. MRI's are found to be very seriously high in radiation. Wish I had more info, but will research.

Most of us here are on our computers a LOT. We should really try to avoid all that electro-magnetism (I have a bluetooth on my ear most of the time when working, also for my cell phone).

question: do you eat anything canned or otherwise 'prepared' foods on a regular basis? I found that MSG was causing my heart palpitations to the point where I thought I was gonna die. It's in most things now, unfortunately.

Kritts

[joao]

But do you think the best way to know what the MRI did to me is to test for heavy metals in blood? Why do they say MRIs aren't armful to one's body?

[Kritters]

Originally Posted by joao

But do you think the best way to know what the MRI did to me is to test for heavy metals in blood? Why do they say MRIs aren't armful to one's body?

Where did I say that? no, I say MRI's are VERY harmful, as are ex-rays and mamograms (ex-rays)...

No, the reason I asked about heavy metals is because if you are over-loaded, the metals and the MRI might have created some sort of reaction?

Like I said, I am not a professional in any of these fields, so I think you should ask someone who is and not the doctors.

Kritts

[joao]

Sorry. So to who should I go to? do You know anyone who is EMH that did a MRI?