Hello! I am a bit suspicious that all these stomach ailments (colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's Disease) all started with increases in EMR in ourenvironment, WiFi, and cell phones? I talked to a guy who suffered from diarrhea for years - until he got rid of his cell phone and then his diarrhea mysteriously and completely disappeared. A number of stories posted on this list certainly connect intestinal disturbances to exposure to EMR. Sarah Docre had iritable bowel syndrome and a person who started the http://www.newtreatments.org/cfs list also had Crohn's Disease - and I know that with CFS (aka Microwave Sickness) one of my main symptoms was intestinal disturbances.
peace
Art KAB
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/kuchikomi/471
Radio waves causing host of ailments
The symptoms began in 2003, four years after the Hayashis (as we'll call them) moved into a house near high-tension power lines in Fuchu, Hiroshima Prefecture. Stomach pains, diarrhea, headaches, fatigue. The hospital diagnosed clinical depression, but the anti-depressants didn't work, and besides, why should four family members all get depressed simultaneously? To say nothing of the teenage son's chronic colitis and the teenage daughter's asthma. Then the third child, born six months after the family's move in 1999, had to be hospitalized with respiratory problems.
The parents suspected the power lines had something to do with it. They moved again and, says Sunday Mainichi (July 8), most of the symptoms cleared up – though even now when the weather's bad, the daughter can't walk near a cell phone transmission tower without feeling a tightness in her head.
Sadatoshi Okubo, who runs the Electromagnetic Wave Problem Citizens' Research Center in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, says the number of people coming to him to talk about similar symptoms began surging five years ago. There occurred another marked increase around the same time, he notes – the number of cell phones in use.
It's too soon to deduce cause and effect, Sunday Mainichi cautions. Nor are cell phones the only potential culprits – far from it. As far back as 1974, scientists in the former USSR identified what they called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome, of which the Hayashis seem typical sufferers. The evidence accumulating since then suggests, without so far conclusively proving, that electromagnetism leaking from power lines or household appliance can cause heartburn, burning eyes, dizziness, fatigue – and possibly cancer.
On June 18, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new environmental health standards that warn of the potential danger of exposure to stray electromagnetism, and advised governments to take preventive measures. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) promptly set up a working group to discuss regulations pertaining to electromagnetic waves.
Other countries have declined to wait for iron-clad scientific confirmation. Sweden, Sunday Mainichi says, has made it illegal to build houses within 240 meters of high-tension power lines. In Britain, children under nine are forbidden to use cell phones. Researchers in Sweden and Austria fear that by 2017, half of us will be suffering from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome.
Japan's medical establishment, meanwhile, scarcely acknowledges its existence. "It's your imagination, you better see a psychiatrist," 72-year-old Mutsuo Sano of Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture, says doctors told him when he complained of pains severe enough to keep him awake for three days at a time.
It was the Kitazato Research Center Hospital in Tokyo's Minato-ku that finally diagnosed his condition as Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome. Now he avoids the likeliest sources of electromagnetic leaks, but finds that stray current is pretty much ubiquitous. He's moved six times in as many years. He doesn't use a cell phone or a personal computer, and he watches TV from at least six meters away. He'd like to travel, he says, but is understandably afraid to.
METI's report is expected this fall. "Let's hope they manage to come up with preventive measures," concludes Sunday Mainichi.
July 1, 2007
peace
Art KAB
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/kuchikomi/471
Radio waves causing host of ailments
The symptoms began in 2003, four years after the Hayashis (as we'll call them) moved into a house near high-tension power lines in Fuchu, Hiroshima Prefecture. Stomach pains, diarrhea, headaches, fatigue. The hospital diagnosed clinical depression, but the anti-depressants didn't work, and besides, why should four family members all get depressed simultaneously? To say nothing of the teenage son's chronic colitis and the teenage daughter's asthma. Then the third child, born six months after the family's move in 1999, had to be hospitalized with respiratory problems.
The parents suspected the power lines had something to do with it. They moved again and, says Sunday Mainichi (July 8), most of the symptoms cleared up – though even now when the weather's bad, the daughter can't walk near a cell phone transmission tower without feeling a tightness in her head.
Sadatoshi Okubo, who runs the Electromagnetic Wave Problem Citizens' Research Center in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, says the number of people coming to him to talk about similar symptoms began surging five years ago. There occurred another marked increase around the same time, he notes – the number of cell phones in use.
It's too soon to deduce cause and effect, Sunday Mainichi cautions. Nor are cell phones the only potential culprits – far from it. As far back as 1974, scientists in the former USSR identified what they called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome, of which the Hayashis seem typical sufferers. The evidence accumulating since then suggests, without so far conclusively proving, that electromagnetism leaking from power lines or household appliance can cause heartburn, burning eyes, dizziness, fatigue – and possibly cancer.
On June 18, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new environmental health standards that warn of the potential danger of exposure to stray electromagnetism, and advised governments to take preventive measures. Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) promptly set up a working group to discuss regulations pertaining to electromagnetic waves.
Other countries have declined to wait for iron-clad scientific confirmation. Sweden, Sunday Mainichi says, has made it illegal to build houses within 240 meters of high-tension power lines. In Britain, children under nine are forbidden to use cell phones. Researchers in Sweden and Austria fear that by 2017, half of us will be suffering from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome.
Japan's medical establishment, meanwhile, scarcely acknowledges its existence. "It's your imagination, you better see a psychiatrist," 72-year-old Mutsuo Sano of Futtsu, Chiba Prefecture, says doctors told him when he complained of pains severe enough to keep him awake for three days at a time.
It was the Kitazato Research Center Hospital in Tokyo's Minato-ku that finally diagnosed his condition as Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Syndrome. Now he avoids the likeliest sources of electromagnetic leaks, but finds that stray current is pretty much ubiquitous. He's moved six times in as many years. He doesn't use a cell phone or a personal computer, and he watches TV from at least six meters away. He'd like to travel, he says, but is understandably afraid to.
METI's report is expected this fall. "Let's hope they manage to come up with preventive measures," concludes Sunday Mainichi.
July 1, 2007
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