I am a parent of an EMF sensitive kid and a sensitive person as well.
In 2018 my non-verbal autistic son was running back and forth in our condo, slamming into walls. So much that his fingers were raw and bleeding and there was blood all over my house. I tested EMFs and they were off the charts. Every tiny condo had a smart meter and most of my neighbors also had hot spots. I tried mitigating, but it only helped slightly. Then I did a test, I took my son to a cabin in the middle of the woods for a week. No wifi, no smart appliances, nothing emitting EMFs. I had a different child by the end of the week. We moved. It got much better.
I have personally become more sensitive to EMFs over the years. Recently my son had an appt in a building that had cell pods on the side of it. I typically look for things like that before we go, but I had forgotten. The building was square and 6 stories high, about that same width and length. The pods were on all 4 faces, mounted at the 6th floor. Our meeting was on the 5th. I told the lady i didn't know if i could make it for the entire meeting, but I would try. I usually get headaches pretty quickly being that close to towers. I was astonished to be able to make it through the meeting. When we got back down to our car, I looked in the rear view mirror at my son who was saying something to me, but I could not hear him. It was then that I realized that my tinnitus, which I have had mildly for years, was suddenly so loud that I could not hear my son speaking to me from the back seat. All from 1 hours under some cell pods. It took 9 months to get it back down to normal levels. It was horrible.
I fear a cell tower going up near my home forcing me to move.
If my husband accidentally has 5G on his cellphone instead of LTE, I can always tell after sitting near the phone for a while. Probably an hour or so. I can tell the 5G is on because I get a distinct pain on the top of my head. It’s always in the same spot on my head and always feels the same way. I haven’t gone to a doctor. It’s simple cause and effect and I ask my husband to turn off the 5G.
• U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP): A $30 million large-scale rodent study reported "clear evidence" of malignant schwannomas in the hearts of male rats exposed to high levels of 2G/3G radiofrequency radiation (RFR), alongside some evidence of brain gliomas and DNA damage in certain tissues.
• Ramazzini Institute: A large rodent study mirrored findings from the NTP, observing similar heart and brain tumor increases at lower exposure levels that closely mimic environmental cell tower exposures.
• Cellular and DNA Research: Multiple in vitro and animal studies (including reviews indexed via PubMed) suggest that RF radiation can increase oxidative stress, trigger cellular inflammation, or cause single- and double-strand DNA breaks under specific experimental conditions.
Here are two studies, one from the National Cancer Institute and the other from the National Institute for Health.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6701402/
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/radiation/cell-phones-fact-sheet
If any family and children are affected there is a problem. If these towers are placed on every block in a middle class neighborhood you tax us to death. You make us carry the financial responsibility for none licensed drivers and now your sprinkling poisons everywhere for 6g. What an abomination and Jesus knows exactly what you are doing. Go stack them next to data centers instead
Thank you very much for giving us all the opportunity to reflect on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure.
I am a 52 years old Dutch woman who is elektrosensitive. I became sick in 2009. After years of nearly no sleep I found out that a celltower had been plased in my neigbourhood around the time that my sleepdisorder started. I noticed that my sleep was better when the wifirouter was off at night. And so I graduately became aware of the effects of my surrounding on my health. Because I wanted to know how others with this disorder survived I started collecting stories. And I hoped by publishing these stories in a book that our Dutch government would listen. The book came out in 2017 ("De draadloze kooi"). It has helped a lot of people but our government ignored it. Now I see our government consistently moving away from looking at us. We are an inconvenient truth.
Being elektrosensitive doesn't mean that I am against technology. It means knowing how to live with technology without it weakening our health.
But with nearly no one being aware of or acknowledging my condition it is very difficult to take part in society. What we need is more awareness about the dangers of EMFs, RF Radiation and Wireless Radiation Exposure, develop healthier products and change the rules of engagement (like with smoking) so our society becomes EHS-inclusive.
More practical: The government can launch an awareness campaign, it can regulate the industry better by lowering radiation limits, give incentives to produce healthier products, recognize EHS as an environmental related disorder so people can get the right healthcare and give people with EHS the right to ask for reasonable adaptations if necessary.
I hope all the input will give you a clear vision of what to do, and that you will be able to put it all in practice. For a better world for all of us.
Thank you very much and good luck.
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