Simple precautions

The more distance to the radiation sources, the better. Most of the electromagnetic fields fall off exponentially. A few centimetres distance can already show an effect. This applies to electrical household appliances as well as for wireless or cordless phones. Even newer, low-radiation devices are useful. The criterion here is the SAR value. It stands for specific absorption rate. It shows how much energy tissue absorbs. Those who use the phone as little as possible in the car or only use the external antenna and headset minimizes the risk further. Because the cell phone increases its radiation intensity to overcome the insulation of the car body and also to keep the connection despite the moving vehicle. Holding the phone correctly can also reduce the radiation. Because when you cover it with your hand, it has to use more power. Shielding devices, however, do only one thing: the have no effect - and therefore are not worth the money. Electro sensitive people are certain: rays make you sick. Mobile phones and masts are the enemies of modernity. Insidious and invisible, they do their malicious work - from headaches to hair loss to brain tumours. 80 percent of people worldwide have access to mobile networks, most of them don’t see the danger. Nevertheless, almost everyone has had thoughts about strong electromagnetic exposure and their consequences before.

Different reactions of different people to the same environment are nothing new

We all know and accept that, for example, people with red hair and blue eyes are very sensitive to sunlight and sunburn quicker as dark-skinned people. With reactions to chemicals, it is difficult to gain acceptance and consideration, because you cannot see purely by the appearance of a person if he or she has health problems due to a perfume, exhaust fumes, cleaning products, cigarette smoke, pesticides, or colours. Approximately 15-30% of the population belong to the group of chemical sensitives, reacting with headaches, dizziness, nausea, up to complete collapse, to everyday chemicals that cause no or very little problems to “normal” people.

What is MCS?

Being chemically sensitive means your body reacts to chemicals in everyday life with many physical ailments. The disease is known as MCS - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. It occurs particularly in developed countries and affects, according to scientific studies, between 15-30% of the total population in various degrees of severity. Regardless of this,  the disease is rarely discussed among the public.

Tree-hugger?

To the outside world chemical sensitive people like the before mentioned may seem like weird tree-hugger. But what chance do they have? Who feels responsible for people like them, who cannot live in any normal house in a town or city because of the severity of their disease? Where do they go? Where are the dead spots where they can stay without pain? How can these people go  back to normal life? Is it correct that a society violates and ridicules those it made sick?

Wireless and Internet

There are various organizations who support the rights of people who are chemical sensitive and most of them are also present on the Internet. Nevertheless, the choice appears to be insufficient. Adding to this is the fact that it is not easy for those affected, to use the internet, because they cannot tolerate wireless normally. Many are creative and have thus, for example, Internet cable with them to get their  laptops connected anywhere they can. In this way, they keep in contact with their families and other activists if they are no longer able to participate on the daily "normal" life (that includes living in an apartment or a house). They often try to live in “dead spots” and do not leave these  "islands" very often. Unfortunately, persons affected often have little energy left  to help each other. Contacts do exist, but unfortunately not enough because these diseases are still not being taken seriously.

WHERE CAN PEOPLE GO WHO ARE SENSITIVE TO CHEMICALS AND ELECTRICALS?

Even more problematic than having to deal with chemical sensitivity in the living room  is the electro-sensitivity, or people who respond to microwave radiation. Affected people spend years looking for a place where they can live. A few even live in caravans in the woods, as they cannot manage to tolerate normal flats and houses. Unfortunately this is not a very known problem.

MCS and sensitivity towards electrics

Every week, thousands of chemical-sensitive people are in search of acceptable housing. For most of these desperate people, it does not matter where they end up, as long as they have one or two rooms without pollution. Housing for people with MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity) is not supported by the state so far, although the UK has signed the UN disability convention and should support these disabled people. People sensitive to chemicals and radio frequency radiation are not so rare. They live a life on the run, because the areas where there is no radiation becomes less every day.