May 23: Children’s sensitivity to Wi-Fi warrants caution
Re: Parental fear of Wi-Fi in schools is unfounded, Letters, May 15
A teenage relative of mine once bought a cool cellphone, even though he knew it could make him sick. He is EMF-sensitive, and microwave transmissions make him headachy, agitated and spacey.
It was OK, he said, as long as he kept it in airplane mode; and the cell helped make him feel more like one of the crowd.
Young people are driven to keep up with the latest trends and these days that means wireless technology. Unfortunately, the American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical authorities are concerned that children are also especially sensitive to all electromagnetic fields because their developing nervous systems are fragile, their brain tissues more conductive, and their smaller skeletons more easily penetrated by microwaves.
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