EMF en Gezondheidsrisicos

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EMF en Gezondheidsrisicos

• MONITORING NETWORK HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
• MeldpuntenNetwerk Gezondheid en Milieu

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• Monitoring EMF-related Health Problems in the
  Netherlands
• Miep Verheuvel
• 8-12-2006

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• About the numbers, why not thousands?
• 1. people have to find our telephone number
• 2. they often want to have some security about
  the relationship between their complaints and
  environmental factors.
• 3. mentioning is often a question of common
  interest, so they must find it worth while.
• 4. people must be aware that their health
  complaints are related to EMF
• 5. they find other places to get help for their
  complaints, like the EHS group

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About the numbers, why not thousands?

• 6.there is a large difference in sensitivity for
  EMFs
• 7. there is a large difference in exposition,
  frequencies as well field strengths, duration and
  place related to where you live and what you or
  your neighbours have introduced in the house,
  especially in the bedroom

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Mainzer EMF-Wachhund registration

• registration during 5 months
• results 93 complaints out of 4 million people,
  many about GSM antennae.
• . Not in conformity wit earlier survey
• 1-4 should be hypersensitive to EMFs
• . They also blamed the self-selection and the
  unfamiliarity with the Wachhund phone. Computer
  use is not useful in EHS people

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• Why are some people more sensitive to EMFs?
• We noted that complaining individuals often have
• a suboptimal condition/ medical history,
• occupational history/ CNS damage
• a suboptimal environment at home
• were just moved
• OFTEN, but not ALWAYS

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• EMF complaining people often have a suboptimal
  condition/ medical history
• 1. a history of immunologic affections
• 2. multisystem diseases (MCS, CVS/ME,
  fibromyalgy). Condition deteriorates when
  exposed.
• 3. nervous system damage (OPS, MS, Lyme disease)
• 4. a high age
• 5. undergone failures in surgery and medical
  treatment

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EMF complaining people often have an
occupational history/ CNS damage

• with/by organic solvents (OPS)
• with/by pathogens and pharmaceuticals (nurses)
• former long term contact with high level low-
  frequency- magnetic fields (welding, induction
  stoves).
• OFTEN, but not ALWAYS

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EMF complaining people often have a suboptimal
environment at home

• . - They are not content with the ventilation
  system.
• - Health complaints occur just after moving in
  the new house. Moving means stress, exposition to
  chemicals (paint, new carpets, etc) sometimes in
  combination with a traumatic event.
• -exposition to magnetic fields at home. high
  tension power lines, induction stove
• Could there be some synergism?
• OFTEN but not ALWAYS

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BUT not everybody has a history, as mentioned
before

• - therapists and yoga teachers occur more than
  expected in the EMF database. Possibly they have
  an inborn sensitivity for energys or they are
  sensitive, but could manage it and stay healthy.
• - a young man repairing clocks in church towers
  gets headache and depression
• - a man in Belgium got tinnitus working on a roof
  with antennae
• . a healthy man working for 8 years with WIFI
  got skin damage

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FOREHEAD possibly influenced by 8 years use of
WIFI
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• Research on Eastern European literature on
  EFFECTS of exposition to low level high frequency
  fields (Gordon (1966), shows
• Changes in blood proteins and histamine
  concentration
• Changes in enzyme activity
• Functional disturbances of the CNS and the
  vegetative nerve system
• EEG changes
• Cardiovascular disturbances
• Headache
• Hyperactivity and agitation
• Serious tiredness and decreased productivity
• Sleeplessness
• Brest pain

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• Gordon also mentioned
• Increasing instability of the circulation with
  exposure time
• Increasing sensitivity for HF-EMF with exposure
  time
• Is that our future?

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Increasing sensitivity for HF-EMF with exposure
time?

• -we dont know, if we dont search for parameters
  for EMF (hyper)sensitivity
• -we have to pay more attention to individuals
  with EMF complaints and exclude medical,
  occupational, living or housing circumstances and
  learn of these
• - we have to explore biological and other
  mechanisms, that give rise to more vulnerability
  for (hyper)sensitivity to EMFs.

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Points meriting attention in research on EMF
(hyper)sensitive people

• -Stress influenced by the relation between
  hypophyse- hypothalamus- adrenal-axis (fight-fly
  reaction) and EMFs
• -Stress influenced by the relation of heart
  rhythm and blood pressure swinging and EMFs

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Other points meriting attention in research on
EMF (hyper)sensitive people

• -1. oxidative stress (electron flow)
• (causes chemical brains after chemotherapy)
• 2. nitrosative stress (NO is a not selective
  neurotransmitter and seems to play an important
  role in brain chemistry, heart inflammation,
  energy supply,etc.)
• 3.Stress by disturbance of the hydrogen ion (H)
  equilibrium (long term acidosis)

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What is required for the future, to learn more
about EMF (hyper)sensitivity and help the victims
at the same time?

• Raise a Centre for Environmental Health and
  Research, with a home sanitation section
• Train environmental doctors. This is possible in
  Germany.
• Extend statistics on public health and
  productivity, especially on the youth.
• Discourage the use of wireless equipment at home
  or at work.

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