How to create a safe zone— away from EMR radiation
How can we help ourselves to stay healthy, and especially protect pregnant women, children, or anyone recovering from illness ?
2. At home: Identify any obvious sources of wireless radiation such as cordless phones, wireless routers (WIFI) and computer games, cordless baby monitors etc. Check out your home room by room and make a list of all potential hazards.
3. Out and about: if you have to use your mobile phone then remember these simple precautions:
* Text rather than phone
* Switch off your phone when not in use.
* Never carry your phone close to your body, and do NOT put your mobile in your baby’s pushchair.
* Keep calls short (under 2 minutes duration)
* Use the speaker phone, or a safe headset, to keep radiation away from your head.
* Only use a mobile phone where reception is good, to reduce the power and radiation it uses to transmit.
* Never let your children play with, or use your phone, except in an emergency
2. Make one easy change at a time. Make a start on cabling up where it is easy to make the change; for example, plug in a corded land-line phone to replace your cordless (DECT) phone, because the radiation output from a cordless phone is intense, and in most cases higher than that from a mobile phone. If you need to buy a new wired landline phone then shop around as there are plenty of bargains around.
3. Prioritise other items from your list. If you are already experiencing symptoms you may need to make changes to any electronic equipment that impacts on your sleeping area. See the explanation of how to create a Sleeping Sanctuary http://emf.mercola.com/sites/emf/archive/2009/07/23/creating-a-sleeping-sanctuary.aspx
4. Identify cabled alternatives for all the equipment on your list. Get help from the experts if you are not sure how to replace wireless with cable. Look at the resources on this website and other websites such as http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/elf/wiring.asp
5. Can you identify any radiation hot spots in your home? You can hire detectors from as little as £35 a week. An Electrosmog Detector will pick up microwave and wireless radiation, and a gauss meter will pick up other electromagnetic fields. http://www.emfields.org/
A sensitive person in your home will already have identified the hot spots, as they will be experiencing symptoms such as, headaches, insomnia, tingling or breathing and heart rate irregularities, whenever they are close by. Children can have eczema type rashes or become hyper-active. Sometimes the whole family reports feeling a low mood and suffering flu-like symptoms.
6. You will find yourself having to explain to your children and neighbours why you are making the changes, and how these will benefit them. Don’t forget to talk to your neighbours as it may be their wireless router that is causing the radiation in your home.
It may help to show them the scientific evidence for the dangers from EMR, but children will be easier to convert to the safe use of electronic equipment, if they can be offered alternatives, and do not end up feeling left out when all their friends have access to the latest phones or wii games.
Why not offer your teenagers their own corded land-line phone in their bedrooms. Internet access throughout the house can be guaranteed using a system of Ethernet cables and telephone points.
For “hands-free calls” at home consider using SKYPE on a wired up computer.
7. Digital TV is another source of radiation which can affect some people, and some screens give off more radiation than others. If you are sensitive you may want to keep your old TV set for as long as possible before upgrading to a safe, low radiation version. Get advice before you buy.
8. Likewise choose low-radiation equipment if you really cannot find a wired alternative. At least one manufacturer is producing a low radiation baby monitor which produces little or no e-smog if used according to instructions, http://www.babyfon.com/en/products/bm_440_eco_plus.php
9. Once you have checked indoors you may want to survey what is in your garden. Hot spots can be caused by radiation from nearby phone masts or neighbours equipment. Dense foliage from trees and shrubs can provide some protection, but if you have a hot spot, make sure the family do not sit there, so move sandpits, swings or tables.
10. If you want additional protection from environmental wireless radiation, then get yourself a protection device such as a Light Images personal protection pendant or box and keep it with you. The pendants can be pinned to children’s clothing to offer protection in schools or nurseries with WIFI.