> --- In [hidden email], Emma Tailleir <sinclair@...> wrote:
>>
> Dear Sens Group
>
> Here is a new report from some German doctors on EMF's. It is
> long, but I like the way they catergorize the symptoms
>
>
> Health Alert
>
> Summary:
> A number of German doctors are combining together to put forward their
> observations of adverse health effects from pulsed high-frequency EMFs
> (microwave) to the Prime Minister of Bavaria, Dr. Edmund Stoiber. The
> health effects include headaches, tiredness, inability to concentrate
> and dizziness, and show an alarming trend.
>
> The results of the evaluations are as follows: (* See below the graph
> for the definitions of the "Symptom Groups")
>
> It is worth explaining the indicated levels. The values convert
> approximately as follows:
>
> 10 µW/m2 = 0.06 V/m average
> 100 µW/m2 = 0.2 V/m average
> 1000 µW/m2 = 0.6 V/m average
>
> * The symptom groups are defined as follows:
>
> Group 1: No symptoms
>
> Group 2: Sleep disturbance, tiredness, depressive mood
>
> Group 3: Headaches, restlessness, dazed state, irritability,
> disturbance of concentration, forgetfulness, learning difficulties,
> difficulty finding words.
>
> Group 4: Frequent infections, sinusitis, lymph node swellings, joint
> and limb pains, nerve and soft tissue pains, numbness or tingling,
> allergies
>
> Group 5: Tinnitus, hearing loss, sudden hearing loss, giddiness,
> impaired balance, visual disturbances, eye inflammation, dry eyes
>
> Group 6: Tachycardia, episodic hypertension, collapse
>
> Group 7: Other symptoms (Hormonal disturbances, thyroid disease, night
> sweats, frequent urge to urinate, weight increase, nausea, loss of
> appetite, nose bleeds, skin complaints, tumours, diabetes)
>
> If true, this is a very clear trend. For those where it is under 10
> µW/m2 70% of the sample (37 people) suffered no adverse health
> effects. For those where the power flux density is over 100 µW/m2 only
> 5-6% of the sample (172 people) did not experience adverse health
> effects. Please look at this graph to see how these levels translate
> to exposure from a typical mast. Microwave signals are often above 0.6
> V/m within 400 metres! There are no counfounding factors listed in the
> data, but the strength of the trend is extremely pronounced.
>
> This is further evidence to support the potential adverse health
> effects that may be synonymous with the pulsed Microwave technology
> that surround us in everyday life. Those in the medical profession are
> beginning to voice their concerns, and it is worth bearing in mind
> that they have first hand experience of real people with real
> problems. It is important not to discard this evidence due to lack of
> experimental control, as it seems that a number of qualified
> professionals have independently found the same trends. At the very
> least this should call for more organised research into these findings.
>
> The following is a foreword written by the doctor who is representing
> the group, Dr. Cornelia Waldmann Selsam:
>
>
>
> Foreword - Documented Health Damage under the Influence of High
> Frequency Electromagnetic Fields
> Dr. Cornelia Waldmann Selsam, Karl-May-Str.48, 96049 Bamberg
>
> These reports show that the people for years have been ill due to
> pulsed high frequency electromagnetic fields, without the treating
> doctors recognizing the cause. For that reason, people who are
> receiving the high frequency at home or at work have suffered and are
> suffering and they receive no therapy. The deciding [effective]
> therapy is to end the exposure.
>
> The continually repeated assertion in the media by the Radiological
> Protection Commission (Strahlenschutzkommission), that there is no
> proof for health risks under the present valid limits, has had the
> consequence that most doctors, (including myself until a year ago)
> have not drawn a relationship between the many unexplained illness
> patterns and high frequency radiation. The doctors do not know that at
> not one single mobile phone base station have investigations into the
> health-state of the people been carried out. Thus, the evaluation of
> the Strahlenschutzkommission in 2001 has no scientific basis.
>
> In Oberfranken, we have just evaluated the medical complaints of 356
> people who have had long-term [radiation] exposure in their homes.
>
> The pulsed high frequency electro magnetic fields (from mobile phone
> base stations, from cable-less DECT telephones, amongst others), led
> to a new, previously unknown pattern of illnesses with a
> characteristic symptom complex.
> People suffer from one, several or many of the following symptoms:
> Sleep disturbances, tiredness, disturbance in concentration,
> forgetfulness, problem with finding words, depressive mood, ear
> noises, sudden loss of hearing, hearing loss, giddiness, nose bleeds,
> visual disturbances, frequent infections, sinusitis, joint and limb
> pains, nerve and soft tissue pains, feeling of numbness, heart rhythm
> disturbances, increased blood pressure episodes, hormonal
> disturbances, night-time sweats, nausea.
> Even at 10µW/m2 (only 0.06 V/m average) many people are becoming ill.
> The symptoms occur in temporal and spatial relationship to exposure.
> It is no way only a subjective sensitivity disturbance. Disturbances
> of rhythm, hearing problems, sudden deafness, hearing loss, loss of
> vision, increased blood pressure, hormonal disturbances, concentration
> impairments, and others can be proved using scientific objective
> measures.
> Some of the health disturbance disappears immediately the exposure
> ceases (removal of DECT telephone, temporary moving away from home,
> permanently moving away, using shielding).
> Therefore, the expansion must be stopped immediately. Mobile phone
> base stations, in whose fields people are exposed to more than 10µW/m2
> must be turned off.
>
> DECT telephones must be changed.
>
> Affected people, relatives and doctors must jointly commit themselves
> and work together with all their energy [to this end].
>
> Evaluation of symptoms of 356 people under long time home exposure to
> high frequency pulsed electromagnetic fields (DECT,telephones, mobile
> phone base stations) versus the level of the power flux density in
> microwatts per square metre.
>
> Source:
>
> http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20050722_bamberg.asp?pf=1
>
>
>
>
>> Paul,
>>
>> If you haven't already, look into inflammation as a mechanism of your
>> ES symptoms. For me, response to changes in air pressure seem to be
>> about inflammation. (External air pressure drops, my cells expand and
>> cause various problems.)
>>
>> One theory is that inflammation is a reaction to free radicals; the
>> body tries to dilute them with extra fluids. My inflammation levels
>> correlate closely with exposure (primarily synthetic chems, ES is
>> secondary).
>>
>> At the best of times, I have trouble keeping up with discussions. These
>> are not the best of times. And my internet connection is currently as
>> dodgy as my body. I try to keep up with this list because I've learned
>> a lot from people here about the nutritional aspects, so ask them for
>> more info if you need it. I probably won't manage to answer until next
>> June. %-)
>>
>> Emma
>>
>> > On another note today I stepped out into my garden and felt a sudden
>> > stinging in my head typical of exposure to cell phone at close
>> > distance ? 3 minutes
>> > later the sky started to turn black the wind got up and we had the
>> > tail end
>> > of a tornado with high speed hail stones to boot, it was a very
> weird
>> > feeling
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