Are You Allergic to Wireless Internet?
Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome (EHS) is acondition in which people are highly sensitive to electromagneticfields. In an area such as a wireless hot spot, they experience pain orother symptoms.
People with EHS experience a variety of symptoms includingheadache, fatigue, nausea, burning and itchy skin, and muscle aches.
These symptoms are subjective and vary between individuals, which makesthe condition difficult to study, and has left experts divided aboutthe validity of such claims.
More than 30 studies have been conducted to determine whatlink the condition has to exposure to electromagnetic fields from
sources such as radar dishes, mobile phone signals and, Wi-Fi hot spots.
This taken from Mercola.com
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. Theassociation produces and distributes educational literature that hashelped 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 Connexionreported that four libraries in Paris have turned off the WiFiconnections they installed at the end of 2007 after staff claimed theywere causing health problems.
Why is WiFi Potentially Worse than Other Radiation?
Electomagneticfields are all around us, no matter where you live these days. Theyemanate from power lines, televisions, household electrical wiring,appliances and microwaves. Then you have the information-carrying radiowaves of cell phones, cell phone towers and wireless internetconnections.
WiFiis 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 alsoemit 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 groupsare environmental canaries.
Chemical sensitivity was also once thought to originate in the minds of hysterical housewives.
Many times, those suffering from electromagnetic hypersensitivitywill also be highly sensitive to chemicals or suffer from MCS. Other
at-risk groups for developing EHS include those with chronic fatiguesyndrome (CFS), and people experiencing mercury toxicity from dentalamalgams.
This makes logical sense since your nervous system is a primary siteimpacted by both chemicals and electromagnetic fields. And if your
nervous system has been damaged from toxic exposures you may also bemore susceptible to EHS as well.
The five most common symptoms of electromagnetic hypersensitivity are:
- skin itch/rash/flushing/burning, and/or tingling
- confusion/poor concentration, and/or memory loss
- fatigue and weakness
- headache
- 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
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