Also available on this website:  Advice about how to obtain a letter from your medical doctor

"Dear Medical Professional:

"Your patient has asked us for support in providing you with information regarding the possible health risks from non-thermal microwave radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation, recently reclassified by the WHO/IARC as a Class 2B, possible human carcinogen.

"This WHO risk category also includes lead, DDT, chloroform, and dioxane, and is relevant to all wireless devices emitting radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, including cordless phones, cell phones, IPads, Wi-Fi routers, wireless games, baby monitors, and smart meters . . .

"Many doctors have already given medical advice to their patients by way of a medical letter or note on a prescription form stating that the patient should avoid, for medical reasons, living in a residence or residential complex at which a wireless meter is operating in order to maintain their health or avoid aggravating a medical condition. This medical advice stating the health condition and advising the patient that they should avoid ongoing exposure to wireless radiofrequency and smart meter emissions will allow your patient to participate in the Human Rights Action currently underway. We are hopeful that the individual's right to protect their health as advised by their medical doctor will be upheld by the Human Rights Tribunal, and this forced exposure within their own home to undesirable microwave radiofrequency emissions will be replaced with reasonable and respectful accommodation by BC Hydro . . . "

Information categories contained in this package: 

1. Microwave Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation - General 
2. Smart Meters
3. Interference with medical devices (Smart Meters Risk)
4. Children
5. EHS/ES - Electrosensitivity
6. Diabetes
7. Heart
8. Tinnitus / Microwave Hearing
9. Sleep and Insomnia
10. Infertility / Sperm Damage
11. Cell Towers - Applicable to constant low-level exposures
12. Cell Phones
13. Published Articles
14. BEES - This section included due to potential impacts on human health from loss of bees and pollination
15. Lawsuits, Scientific Statements and Letters

CST's "Doctor's Information Package" is now ready to use.

Citizens for Safe Technology Society has made application to the BC Human Rights Tribunal to represent all those with medical conditions who feel disadvantaged by the forced exposure within their own home or residential complex to wireless emissions beyond their control from Smart Meters.

The following "Advice about How to Obtain a Letter from Your Medical Doctor" explains how to use the "Doctor's Information Package" most effectively. The information in the package can be used to help doctors understand the issue more fully. The resulting letter can then be used as part of CST's application to the BC Human Rights Tribunal.

Once you have received a medical letter from your doctor explaining your condition and advising that you avoid smart meter emissions, please scan and send it by e-mail to Una St.Clair, CST, at una@citizensforsafetechnology.org or fax to 1-866-824-8865. Any further queries, such as a mailing address if you wish to mail your letter, can be addressed to Una St.Clair at una@citizensforsafetechnology.org.

This two-page introduction contains the following:

• Instructions on how to use this package 
• Suggestions for wording to be used by your doctor 
• Contact information

"My name is Alwyn Lewies and I am 38 years old. I am giving a short background of my life with an illness called Electromagnetic Sensitivity (ES), which I have been struggling with for the past 12 years since exposure from a cell mast.

"It started in 2000 with a cell phone tower that was erected at my workplace in Wapadrand, Pretoria. We were approached by a cell phone company who was interested in putting up a tower on my premises and we were assured that the tower would have no effect on us at all . . .

"I will continue to fight until the end. I owe it to myself and my family to seek a way to find a normal life. This letter is my last attempt to try and convince the authorities that ES is very real and a life threatening disease. I just want my life back and it really just depends on the cell phone towers closest to my home . . .

2009: Europe on the move: Some 300,000 Swedes suffer from electrohypersensitivity due to the electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones and Wifi terminal. A European Parliament report has recommended that more be done to limit exposure.

This is a less than perfect transcript, not fully verbatim, but it captures the meaning of everything that occurred in the interview.

"Thomas M. Rau is the medical director of the Swiss Paracelsus clinic. It is world famous for understanding of the root causes of diseases and better outcomes for patients.

"Dr Rau is very concerned about the proliferation of cell phone towers. They can interfere with the patient's biology and particularly the unconscious (sympathetic/parasympathetic) nerve system.

"These unconscious functions can be severely compromised by the radiation from towers. Patients do not necessarily feel the impacts of the EMR.

"The Paracelsus clinic sees 3000 EHS patients from 10000 patients that they see annually. There is only a certain selection of patients that actually feel pain.

"People with heavy metal loads in the body tend to suffer much more from electromagnetic radiation as compared to those who do not. The heavy metals might well be absorbing the EMR: root canals, amalgam fillings, implants, etc. can be the problem . . .

In addition to numerous other health problems, electromagnetic pollution has been associated with an increase in the number of individuals suffering from a condition known as electrohypersensitivity (EHS).

EHS is defined by the World Health Organization as: "...a phenomenon where individuals experience adverse health effects while in the vicinity of devices emanating electric, magnetic, or electromagnetic fields."

This information package offers a tool with which to bring forward the subject of electrohypersensitivity to medical professionals, as well as to others who may be experiencing health effects associated with EHS. It contains:

• a symptoms chart 
• biological effects of EMF/EMR 
• exposure diagnostic criteria put forward by the Human Rights Commission Research Project and The Environmental Health Clinic at the New Women's hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 
• aspects of environmental sensitivities   
• common overlapping conditions
• treatment
• controversies
• recommended reading    

You will also find an account of the controversy surrounding currently-existing health standards and safety limits used by Health Canada and the FCC to determine supposedly safe exposure levels for environmental radiation, and the main reasons for disagreement among experts.

If you suffer due to Electrosensitivity or Electrohypersensitivity and could provide a one-page description of your situation that could be shared (anonymously if you prefer) for the purposes of possible public action and/or legal action, please email wrscouncil@aol.com.

Please include: 

• any reason(s) you attribute your sensitivity to exposure to electromagnetic radiation; 
  
• whether or not your physician has diagnosed ES or EHS;  
  
• one-page (or shorter) description of your situation; and 
  
• your preferred method of contact if you would consider providing more indepth information now or at some time in the future.

Article published in the December 2011 edition of the Journal of the ACNEM (Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine) 


". . . The listed studies therefore invite public health legislators to initiate restrictions on EMF spread, and to study further the potential effects from radiation on human health and, finally, to provide potential solutions, such as:

• Restrictions of wireless networks in schools, hospitals, residential areas, public transportation and similar locations. 

• Shield EMF-emitting antennas and installations; wherever possible use shielded cables, fiberoptic solutions, etc. 

• Investigate the health effects of the widespread implementation of wireless telecommunication networks in urban and rural areas. And do it now! 

• Update the allowed threshold for background radiation in populated areas."

"Michele Hertz was sick, and she had no idea why.

"Hertz, 54, who lives on Euclid Avenue in Hastings, began experiencing myriad health problems since 2009, shortly after a new digital reading meter was installed on her house that June. Con Edison began replacing analog meters with digital Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) devices in 2007. The meters collect diagnostic and usage data from residences and businesses.

"Before digital meters were installed, Con Edison workers had to walk to and read a meter on a building. With the new equipment, an employee can gather information without ever leaving his vehicle. As a result, meter-reading becomes a less involved, more efficient, and cost-effective process.

"Now, concern that AMRs and Smart Meters -- which allow for two-way communication of data that can be accessed remotely by an energy or water company -- might cause serious health problems is slowly growing across the country.

"On Tuesday Dec. 6, Hertz made a presentation to the Hastings Board of Trustees, detailing the health problems she has experienced, which included intense headaches, dizziness, agitation, an accelerated heartbeat and sleeplessness. Eventually, after obtaining a note from her doctor, Con Edison agreed to replace Hertz's digital meter with an older, analog model. Hertz says her condition improved rapidly when the analog meter was installed . . .

Introduction, Background, Management of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, Case History of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity, Quality of life Considerations, Debate about the Legitimacy of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity. 

As the prevalence of wireless telecommunication escalates throughout the world, health professionals are faced with the challenge of patients who report symptoms they claim are connected with exposure to some frequencies of electromagnetic radiation (EMR). Some scientists and clinicians acknowledge the phenomenon of hypersensitivity to EMR resulting from common exposures such as wireless systems and electrical devices in the home or workplace; others suggest that electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is psychosomatic or fictitious. Various organizations including the World Health Organization as well as some nation states are carefully exploring this clinical phenomenon in order to better explain the rising prevalence of non-specific, multi-system, often debilitating symptoms associated with non-ionizing EMR exposure. As well as an assortment of physiological complaints, patients diagnosed with EHS also report profound social and personal challenges, impairing their ability to function normally in society. This paper offers a review of the sparse literature on this perplexing condition and a discussion of the controversy surrounding the legitimacy of the EHS diagnosis. Recommendations are provided to assist health professionals in caring for individuals complaining of EHS.