Electrical Sensitivity

Electrical sensitivity is where the electrical currents, that surround us all the time in our daily lives, effect our health. Electrical sensitivity has been blamed for unexplained skin and eye problems, sleep problems and fatigue, problems thinking, difficulty concentrating and headaches. It is thought to only affect sensitive individuals.Electrical sensitivity has been written about for a long time by forward thinking health writers, and concerned individuals who blame this for their health problems, but is only just starting to be mentioned by the UK government health agencies.
Electrical sensitivity has also been called ElectroSensivity (ES), electrical hypersensitivity, electromagnetic sensitivity, or electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS). This shows that it is not a topic published in the mainstream medical journals, as there is not a universally agreed word for it. It also used to be called radiation sickness, which mostly affected people working in the electricity or radar industries.
The number of people who have electrical sensitivity is difficult to estimate.

MCS - a chronic condition with no cure

The best information currently available suggests that MCS is a chronic condition with no cure. Although some treatments (such as acupuncture) seem to help some patients, recent surveys by the Chemical Injury Information Network, a nonprofit education and advocacy organization for people with chemical sensitivities, found that avoidance of problem chemicals was the only consistently effective treatment.

If only avoidance were as simple as it sounds. Just as modern life almost inevitably involves contributing greenhouse gases to the heating atmosphere, it is all but impossible to navigate the industrialized world without being immersed in tens of thousands of potentially troublesome human-made chemicals. And just as an honest fight against global warming would pose a huge threat to powerful energy companies, a real effort to take MCS seriously could throw a wrench into the operations of a huge range of industries that produce chemicals and chemical-laden products.

Multiple Chemical Sensitivities can force sufferers into poverty as well as ill health

Environmentalists usually think about chemical toxicity as either a dramatic local crisis, the simmering concern of those far away or far in the future. But for people suffering from Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, the chemical crisis is already here. Indeed, thanks to industrialization, it is already everywhere. And, like so many environment-related health issues, it disproportionately affects the poor -- and, moreover, drives many once financially stable people into poverty.

As a disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities doesn't have an official case definition yet, but rather refers to a broad range of adverse symptoms brought on by an even more broad array of everyday chemicals. These symptoms are often provoked at exposure levels far below those that seem to affect the rest of the population -- levels virtually always present in our homes, workplaces, and social venues. They commonly include severe headaches, food intolerances, difficulty breathing, nausea, irritation of the eyes, ears, nose, throat, and skin, and disorientation or confusion, but there are many more.

Wireless sensitivity

How can it be, that most people use wireless connection to get onto the internet and their mobile phones to call their family and friends and this is completely normal. On the other hand there are a handful of people who feel really ill, when they do exactly the same. What is it, that causes this reaction? It is so difficult to find out, that some doctors do not even recognise this "allergy" to wireless connections as an existing condition. This is exactly the point that makes it so difficult to find a treatment and for the effected people to be respected in society.