Posted by dpestun on
URL: https://www.es-forum.com/How-to-avoid-Rf-meter-placement-tp1750079p1762194.html



> I wonder if there is a way to refuse a Smart Meter because it will disrupt hearing aids, and cause so much interference it would make the hearing aid useless. A family member can't be around cell phones, Wi-fi, cordless digital phones, etc. There is so much buzzing and distortion in the aid, that she can't understand what people are saying. She can't go out in public, because she can't avoid other people who have cell phones, and if she is within several feet of them, the cell phone causes the interference.

WOW!
Interesting idea.  I never thought to come at the electrical company from this standpoint.  My 6 year old son wears hearing aids and the smart meter is on my bedroom wall, but within 30 feet of his bed.  He spends little time in my room during the day with his hearing aids in.  Guess I should ask him if they work the same in there.  My meter only pulses a few times a day but it has a rediculously high magnetic field.  He reacts when going through the antitheft devices in store doorways and will not use a cordless phone.  All of ours are corded, for his comfort and the safety of us all.  Don't have a cell phone so I'm not sure if those would bother him too, though I'm pretty sure they would.  He doesn't like microwaves either (grandma has one, not us) and he isn't really interested in the computer yet so not sure if it or the DSL would affect his aids yet.  It's hard because he rarely complains unless the interference happens for more than a few seconds.  He often just says the hearing aids were 'laughing'.  I have more concern for keeping him away from high harmful fields due to his constant low level exposure from the hearing aids, even though I am the one who 'feels' the electricity and reacts.  I still don't know his exact level of exposure from the hearing aids themselves and it bothers me every day.  I guess in a way I'm grateful for my issues because I'm my own 'emr detector' and can keep my son away from more because of it.  We went as far as to keep the telecoil setting off and not use extra devices because of the magnetic field induction it would cause.  I don't think a looped magnetic field would be harmless to him, especially since childrens skulls are so much thinner.
Deidra