Cases of EHS may explode

Cases of EHS may explode

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This type of listing (real thing) may become more frequent if the proliferation of sources of microwaves continues at the current exponential, says Dr. Gerd Oberfeld the public health department of Salzburg, Austria, a city which has adopted standards for exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) the most stringent in the world.

"The incidence of EHS has increased steadily since the syndrome was first documented in 1991," he wrote in a letter published in 2006 in the journal Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine. "In Austria, he earned an average 13% of the population while in Germany, the prevalence increased from 6% in 2001 to 9% in 2004," according to public health studies and independent research qu'Oberfeld Swedish Örjan Hallberg cited in this letter. "The trend extrapolation indicates that 50% of the population can expect to become électrohypersensible by the year 2017", then these authors concluded.

If it is possible to challenge this prediction of doom, there is no denying that more and more people complain of symptoms (sensation of burning skin, headaches, dizziness, nausea, heart problems, insomnia, tinnitus , sweating, confusion, etc..) associated with electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome (EHS). Symptoms that magically disappear when you move away or shielded sources (cables, antennas and wireless devices or yarn) of EMF emissions, both microwave and other high frequency (measured in kilo-, mega-and gigahertz) or extremely low frequency (60 Hertz) residential.

The National Survey of Population Health conducted by Statistics Canada does not deal with EHS. However, according to the 2010 survey made among 63 191 respondents, nearly 2.8% of Canadians aged 12 and over living in private dwellings reported having multiple chemical sensitivity, which often suffer the electrohypersensitive.

Disease of microwaveIn fact, EHS has been known since 1932. Then a German internist, Erwin Schliephake, baptized "microwave sickness" discomfort observed in radio operators are heavily exposed to short waves - waves that the doctor used in low doses as a treatment. Then in 1971, a U.S. Navy lieutenant, Zorach (Zory'''') R. Glasser, Ph.D., signed a literature on the biological effects reported and the clinical manifestations attributed to exposure to microwaves and other radio frequencies. Updated in 1972, the report identified more than 2,300 scientific studies on the subject.

But today Sweden is the only country to recognize EHS as a disability caused by the environment. And it's a Swedish student, Eva-Rut Lindberg, who has signed the first doctoral thesis on architecture suited to electrohypersensitive. (Download at kth.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf? Pid = diva2: 455407 and read pages 9-26 which are in English.)

Although the symptoms are real, "EHS is not a medical diagnosis," says the World Health Organization (WHO) in its memorandum 296 published in December 2005. In this document, the WHO says there is no "scientific basis to link EHS symptoms to EMF exposure." It does not exclude that they are due to anxiety or a psychiatric disorder.Yet since 2005, and published several studies currently underway prove otherwise. (Read here on electrohypersensitivity the former Director General of WHO and mother of the concept of sustainable development, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland. In 2002, it stated that it could detect up to a distance of 4 meters cell phone open because it emits waves gave him a good headache. The same article also describes how the WHO recommendations regarding electrosmog were made in collaboration with industry representatives, whose Dr Michel Plante, Hydro-Quebec.)

Standards criticizedAccording to Health Canada, which is based on WHO recommendations, the guidelines for EMF exposure described in the Canadian Safety Code 6 protect public health. However, according to a report of 14 independent experts (bioinitiative.org), these recommendations would be up to 1,000 times too tolerant because they reflect only thermal effects in the short term on the human body during exposure to 6 minutes, and not long-term effects of chronic exposure, as EHS and brain cancer. The risk of suffering from such cancer seems to double in people who use a cell 30 minutes a day for ten years, according to a dozen studies, including the largest conducted to date on the subject: published in 2010 The Interphone study was a meta-analysis by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of WHO.

Many experts therefore recommended to apply the precautionary principle in relation to EMF exposure, as was indeed also the European Environment Agency and even the WHO.However, the consumer is increasingly imposing devices emitting microwaves against his will: "The new appliances include transmitters communicating with smart meters," says the American epidemiologist Sam Milham which established a link between increased incidence of several chronic diseases and the electrification of houses in the 1930s."Smart meters I measured emit 24 hours a day, seven days a week We will not put the genie of the bottle in his electro without government help."

How to reduce exposureFortunately, it is possible to reduce our exposure to EMF. Former advisor to WHO and President Bill Clinton in environmental health, Devra Lee Davis, who is an epidemiologist, founded the first environmental oncology center in the world at the Cancer Institute of the University of Pittsburgh . On the site of its foundation (environmentalhealthtrust.org), it suggests 12 things to do to prevent cancer, including:"Use cell phones with a headset and a speaker so as not to hold the camera against your head. Children should not use a cell phone.Studies claiming that there is no link between cell phone use and brain cancer have not been conducted with people who use cell phones as often as the average person today. Cell phones emit low levels of microwave radiation that destroy brain cells of rats and memory that can enter the human brain to an inch deep [even deeper into the brain of a child ]. Although the UK government recommends that children avoid altogether the use of a cell, some U.S. companies will boast up their phones to children of five years."

Do evaluate their homeHere also the advice given by the electrical engineer Alasdair Philips, founder of the excellent British website powerwatch.org.uk, in an interview with the American physician Joseph Mercola:

• Take measure EMFs in your home to identify the main sources. Firms electromagnetic hygiene most experienced working in the houses are essentia.ca Quebec (Andrew Michrowski) and em3e.com (Stephane Bélainsky). These specialists can identify particular: 1) generating electrical problems EMC, 2) the major sources of EMF that must move away from one to two meters, and 3) shielding devices (metal alloy, textile paint graphite), filtration or rupture of blood that can be installed in bedrooms and other rooms where you spend the most time.

• Minimize your use of electrical appliances, especially during evenings and at night, especially the hair dryer and electric razor that emit very high magnetic fields. These fields halt the production of melatonin, a hormone that regulates the biological clock - and by extension sleep - and that fights the growth of tumors. People who work in offices have an interest in reducing the intensity of their computer screen in the evening: the secretion of melatonin typically begins around 21h but is delayed when s' exposed to intense light, according to Israeli summit in chronobiology Abraham Haim, Haifa University.

• Move or disconnect electrical appliances located up to one meter in your bed: the room must be a health oasis where you can recover.

Other Tips

• Stay away from at least two meters from a microwave oven on. When you are half a meter of such a device, it may expose you to a magnetic field of 400 milliGauss. According twenty studies, chronic exposure to a magnetic field means more than 3 mG doubles the risk of childhood leukemia.

• Have an electrician connect the ground (GND) of your electrical input is supplied on the entry of water, at least two buried metallic grounding rods. A plumber can then replace a section of the pipe by a piece of plastic, thus avoiding that the magnetic fields on flowing through your home plumbing.

• Reduce or eliminate the use of wireless devices, especially in the evening and overnight. The basics of recharge cell phones and Wi-Fi routers constantly emit microwaves. Also avoid installing these devices in the rooms. Three feet of a wireless router or to a laptop Wi-Fi, the exposure level is so high that if you stand at 200 meters from a cellular base station. For some antennas, not the least powerful, the safe distance to live is at least 500 meters, according to researcher Henry Lai of the University of Washington. "Some antennas erected on or near buildings may not be a problem, shade Aladair Philips. It depends on the height and power of the antenna, of the beam direction, of the height of the building, etc.. We recommend that the signal does not exceed 0.1 volts per meter in the house in general, and particularly in the rooms."

• Children and teenagers should avoid having long conversations with their cell phones and texting favor. Never use a cordless phone or a cell where the reception is poor because the device then increases its emissions of microwaves. Ultimately, stand at least six inches of the handset (avoid wearing an open cell on you) and use the speakerphone or a headset like Blue-Tube, which carries the sound through an air tube, as a stethoscope.For more information: 21esiecle.qc.ca/electrosmog

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