EXTRA LOW FREQUENCY (ELF) ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS AND SUDDEN UNEXPECTED INFANT DEATH (SIDS)
Here are a couple of paragraphs from Roger Coghill's website re SIDS.
These comments and references to other studies, help to support the vital need to evaluate and compare cases of SIDS, Leukaemia, brain cancer, breast cancer, Lou Gehrig's Disease, miscarriage, Alzheimers -- really ANY disease or combination of symptoms re suspected ES/EHS as to whether affected persons are sleeping/were sleeping with or close to electrical items including, but not limited to, appliances, heaters, some telephone equipment, metal beds and headboards, possible wiring problem, pipes with high currents, etc. with persons for which no such exposures relate strongly to that group.
Government and industry have been successful in regard to "pulling the wool over the eyes of the public" by attempting to placate persons with the facts that EMF/EMR is "everywhere." Those facts can not be disputed. Studies will continue to be "inconclusive/ambiguous/misleading/inaccurate" until and unless there is "a focus" on studies re close, chronic, prolonged nighttime electrical exposures.
As most on your list know, Prof. Olle Johansson will produce the needed in-vitro studies that will shed light on "mysteries in epidemiologic studies....." He has already given us the excellent interview "Mysteries in the Skin." Prof. Olle Johansson needs only to have the necessary funding........to do what we so desperately need to HELP SAVE THE CHILDREN!!!! We all know that phrase is "a driving force" that is really behind revealing information that is deliberately being kept from the public and that applies to "every peson" and includes "every single symptom known to man (animal too, of course).
The facts that even "good biological changes" -- "reduced symptoms," even "bone growth," "pain relief," and more can be induced by certain therapeutic EMF stimulators -- non-ionizing radiation, prove substantially that EMF/EMR is responsible for "real health effects" and not just "insignificant biological effects."
Soon government and industry will no longer be able to intimidate and bombard the public with the "criminal rhetoric" that EMF/EMRs' "biological changes" have no relevance in regard to "serious health effects" -- "DISEASE....!!!!" Best wishes and take care - Joanne
Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican @aol.com (1-25-07)
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?..." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
SIDS....Coghill website...
From: JCMPelican @aol.com
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:27:06 EST
However, the ubiquitous nature of EM domestic sources within any home makes it a natural possibility that some SIDS cases, perhaps as many as half, might originate from chronic exposure to ambient EM fields from domestic appliances such as storage or other heaters, electric blankets and the like which are switched on for long periods. Accordingly a possible correlation between SIDS and domestic EM field strength should also be investigated. There are indications, both in the literature and from case series, that this may be so. Ramanathan and Chandra (1988) reported that out of 34 SIDS cases no less than six had been lying on or under electric blankets or electrically heated water beds.
Another reported a SIDS case where the victim had been in a carry cot on a floor heated by underfloor electric heating. A recent Tasmanian study reported that in 69 percent of SIDS cases home heating had been operating at the time. Only 1 percent of Tasmanian homes have central heating and the probability is that the SIDS homes were being heated electrically. Though the princpipal aim of the study was to investigate position, the authors identified heating as being associated independently with SIDS. This was also the case in a Bristol University study (Wigfield et al, 1992) which did not however identify which kind of heating had been involved. It is hard to escape the conclusion that there is a strong association between chronic exposure to ELF electromagnetic fields and SIDS.
Near miss SIDS
This phenomenon is where the parent notices by chance that the infant is unwell (and often cyanosing), and picks up it up, removing it from the distress location, usually to the nearest hospital or doctor's surgery. The infant rapidly recovers and quickly becomes well again, so that in some cases the investigating doctor cannot find any sign of ill health. Sadly a second occurrence after the infant has returned to its habitual environment, is usually not so fortunate in outcome. @PARAHEAD = Position De Jongh reported that 88 percent of SIDS infants are found dead in a prone position, suggesting that this may be due to an agonal response. Other common symptoms are that the infant utters distress cries for some days before death, is often irritable, and will not settle, or refuses a feed. Some infants are found in positions very different from that in which they are placed at bedtime.
All these can be understood in the context of the infant's sensitivity to EM fields, possibly because the cerebral myelination process is not complete in human beings until one year of life, and responds by attempting to evade the EM field region. It was suggested by Ponsonby and subsequently by Fleming that placing the infant in a supine position would by itself lessen the risk of SIDS occurrence. However recent national UK publicity to promote the advice to place the baby in a supine position for sleep has always been accompanied by advice not to overheat the infant ( FSIDS pamphlet, 1992).
Immunological disorder
Some studies have noted disorders of immune competence reporting altered levels of IgG or IgE, though this is not confirmed in other studies. Snuffles, colds, and other infections are commonly reported during the last week of life before a SIDS occurrence, suggesting a mild immune incompetence. Laboratory studies have confirmed that even short term exposure to ELF EM fields inhibits lymphocyte cytotoxicity by upto 40 percent. Other studies (Wertheimer & Leeper, 1979; Feychting and Ahlbom, 1992) have confirmed that increased incidence of childhood leukaemia incidence is associated with proximity to important sources of EM fields. If such fields have serious adverse health effects on children it would be consistent to suggest that infants are even more badly affected. The peak age of death in SIDs is 12.6 weeks, the time when fetal haemoglobin is being replaced by the infant's own haemoglobin, and assuming independent immunological status from the mother.
http://www.cogreslab.co.uk/sidstudy.asp?s_pname
Re: Fwd: SIDS....Coghill ....NIGHTTIME CLOSE EXPOSURES
From: Olle Johansson
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:23:35 +0100
To: JCMPelican
This, dear Joanne, is also so extremely important to investigate. SIDS - and related children's diseases/deaths - must (!) be a priority for the society! If not, the world's democracies are not very much to rely on...
Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm Sweden
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Coghill
These comments and references to other studies, help to support the vital need to evaluate and compare cases of SIDS, Leukaemia, brain cancer, breast cancer, Lou Gehrig's Disease, miscarriage, Alzheimers -- really ANY disease or combination of symptoms re suspected ES/EHS as to whether affected persons are sleeping/were sleeping with or close to electrical items including, but not limited to, appliances, heaters, some telephone equipment, metal beds and headboards, possible wiring problem, pipes with high currents, etc. with persons for which no such exposures relate strongly to that group.
Government and industry have been successful in regard to "pulling the wool over the eyes of the public" by attempting to placate persons with the facts that EMF/EMR is "everywhere." Those facts can not be disputed. Studies will continue to be "inconclusive/ambiguous/misleading/inaccurate" until and unless there is "a focus" on studies re close, chronic, prolonged nighttime electrical exposures.
As most on your list know, Prof. Olle Johansson will produce the needed in-vitro studies that will shed light on "mysteries in epidemiologic studies....." He has already given us the excellent interview "Mysteries in the Skin." Prof. Olle Johansson needs only to have the necessary funding........to do what we so desperately need to HELP SAVE THE CHILDREN!!!! We all know that phrase is "a driving force" that is really behind revealing information that is deliberately being kept from the public and that applies to "every peson" and includes "every single symptom known to man (animal too, of course).
The facts that even "good biological changes" -- "reduced symptoms," even "bone growth," "pain relief," and more can be induced by certain therapeutic EMF stimulators -- non-ionizing radiation, prove substantially that EMF/EMR is responsible for "real health effects" and not just "insignificant biological effects."
Soon government and industry will no longer be able to intimidate and bombard the public with the "criminal rhetoric" that EMF/EMRs' "biological changes" have no relevance in regard to "serious health effects" -- "DISEASE....!!!!" Best wishes and take care - Joanne
Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA Phone: 763-755-6114 Email: jcmpelican @aol.com (1-25-07)
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?..." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
SIDS....Coghill website...
From: JCMPelican @aol.com
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:27:06 EST
However, the ubiquitous nature of EM domestic sources within any home makes it a natural possibility that some SIDS cases, perhaps as many as half, might originate from chronic exposure to ambient EM fields from domestic appliances such as storage or other heaters, electric blankets and the like which are switched on for long periods. Accordingly a possible correlation between SIDS and domestic EM field strength should also be investigated. There are indications, both in the literature and from case series, that this may be so. Ramanathan and Chandra (1988) reported that out of 34 SIDS cases no less than six had been lying on or under electric blankets or electrically heated water beds.
Another reported a SIDS case where the victim had been in a carry cot on a floor heated by underfloor electric heating. A recent Tasmanian study reported that in 69 percent of SIDS cases home heating had been operating at the time. Only 1 percent of Tasmanian homes have central heating and the probability is that the SIDS homes were being heated electrically. Though the princpipal aim of the study was to investigate position, the authors identified heating as being associated independently with SIDS. This was also the case in a Bristol University study (Wigfield et al, 1992) which did not however identify which kind of heating had been involved. It is hard to escape the conclusion that there is a strong association between chronic exposure to ELF electromagnetic fields and SIDS.
Near miss SIDS
This phenomenon is where the parent notices by chance that the infant is unwell (and often cyanosing), and picks up it up, removing it from the distress location, usually to the nearest hospital or doctor's surgery. The infant rapidly recovers and quickly becomes well again, so that in some cases the investigating doctor cannot find any sign of ill health. Sadly a second occurrence after the infant has returned to its habitual environment, is usually not so fortunate in outcome. @PARAHEAD = Position De Jongh reported that 88 percent of SIDS infants are found dead in a prone position, suggesting that this may be due to an agonal response. Other common symptoms are that the infant utters distress cries for some days before death, is often irritable, and will not settle, or refuses a feed. Some infants are found in positions very different from that in which they are placed at bedtime.
All these can be understood in the context of the infant's sensitivity to EM fields, possibly because the cerebral myelination process is not complete in human beings until one year of life, and responds by attempting to evade the EM field region. It was suggested by Ponsonby and subsequently by Fleming that placing the infant in a supine position would by itself lessen the risk of SIDS occurrence. However recent national UK publicity to promote the advice to place the baby in a supine position for sleep has always been accompanied by advice not to overheat the infant ( FSIDS pamphlet, 1992).
Immunological disorder
Some studies have noted disorders of immune competence reporting altered levels of IgG or IgE, though this is not confirmed in other studies. Snuffles, colds, and other infections are commonly reported during the last week of life before a SIDS occurrence, suggesting a mild immune incompetence. Laboratory studies have confirmed that even short term exposure to ELF EM fields inhibits lymphocyte cytotoxicity by upto 40 percent. Other studies (Wertheimer & Leeper, 1979; Feychting and Ahlbom, 1992) have confirmed that increased incidence of childhood leukaemia incidence is associated with proximity to important sources of EM fields. If such fields have serious adverse health effects on children it would be consistent to suggest that infants are even more badly affected. The peak age of death in SIDs is 12.6 weeks, the time when fetal haemoglobin is being replaced by the infant's own haemoglobin, and assuming independent immunological status from the mother.
http://www.cogreslab.co.uk/sidstudy.asp?s_pname
Re: Fwd: SIDS....Coghill ....NIGHTTIME CLOSE EXPOSURES
From: Olle Johansson
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:23:35 +0100
To: JCMPelican
This, dear Joanne, is also so extremely important to investigate. SIDS - and related children's diseases/deaths - must (!) be a priority for the society! If not, the world's democracies are not very much to rely on...
Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm Sweden
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Coghill
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