Magnetic Field making family sick

Status
Not open for further replies.
You will always read a high level of electromagnetic field when you measure close to switches when they are on. If the only place you are measuring electromagnetic field's is close to walls and not out in the middle of a room then there is nothing to worry about.
 
What sickness are you getting from the electromagnetic field's. I have heard people say they get migraines but in my experience those people are few and far between. I have done troubleshooting with my gauss meter and I have fixed the issues with electromagnetic field but the people living there still had issues with their headaches.
 
NTesla76 said:
In school, from elementary to high school, I used to get migraines regularly. I'm convinced it was the fluorescent lighting.
Click to expand...
that is a common problem with fluorescent lighting. it exhibits a low intensity flickering that most people just ignore or cannot even see, but some people are bothered by it.
 
angelob said:
Hello,
Below are two videos of possible Magnetic Fields in a residence making a family very sick.
Can anyone identify what these problems are?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/JnJN9jKpuyH26nc66

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UZAVFNrQLTuA8BuBA

Does anyone do a Magnetic Field Survey/repairs?

Thank you in advance
Click to expand...
First off. There is no credible scientific proof that EMF causes human health problems. There are a lot of anecdotal stories that suggest it might happen, but no actual proof.

So, I would ask how you know that the family is getting sick from magnetic fields. if you are relying on people selling hocus pocus I would caution that they are generally neither medical experts nor experts in EMF. They are trying to sell you snake oil, mostly.

There are plenty of these snake oil salesmen out there perfectly willing to do some kind of assessment and sell you something to mitigate what they find. Chances are, the only effect will be on your wallet.
 
petersonra said:
that is a common problem with fluorescent lighting. it exhibits a low intensity flickering that most people just ignore or cannot even see, but some people are bothered by it.
Click to expand...
count me as very skeptical that anyone can see 60 hertz flicker (Which is really 120 hertz).

The eye responds to peak levels of light, and has a freq limit of about 20 hertz.
 
steve66 said:
count me as very skeptical that anyone can see 60 hertz flicker (Which is really 120 hertz).

The eye responds to peak levels of light, and has a freq limit of about 20 hertz.
Click to expand...
But there are some people bothered by fluorescent lighting. Take them out of that environment and their headaches go away. I think they cannot see it but it bothers them for some reason.
 
steve66 said:
count me as very skeptical that anyone can see 60 hertz flicker (Which is really 120 hertz).

The eye responds to peak levels of light, and has a freq limit of about 20 hertz.
Click to expand...
Even if the eye cannot directly sense the flicker (and I am not convinced that it can't. Look at a neon bulb driven from AC and compare to the same bulb driven from DC), the strobe effect on moving objects is easily detectable and may be disturbing.)
I believe that to reduce the visible strobe effect multiple tube linear fluorescents incorporate a phase shift between pairs of tubes.
Area fluorescent lighting driven as three balanced arrays from three phase power will almost eliminate the effect.

Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk
 
petersonra said:
But there are some people bothered by fluorescent lighting. Take them out of that environment and their headaches go away. I think they cannot see it but it bothers them for some reason.
Click to expand...
I remember reading research to indicate this effect in migraines is similar to epilepsy where a seizure is induced by strobing light. In a migraine the headache can be induced by the nearly imperceptible strobing of a florescent light.
 
Count me in the skeptic camp as well, but I don't think anybody can completely rule out the possibility. My friends younger brother was having similar issues. After my friend moved out to go to college the parents got an electrician to completely separate a portion of the house with a new subpanel. His brother could flip one breaker off to help him sleep or any time he felt disturbances. Apparently it helped tremendously. They got the idea from a power outage that lasted a couple days and his brother said he never felt better. To put this into perspective though, my friend thinks his brother is just a hypochondriac, he doesn't believe that it was actually doing anything, but as long as his brother believes its helping then it doesn't really matter...
 
So you are talking about an imperceptible flicker causing headaches but that is not an electromagnetic field. We may be dealing with different issues here. One doesn't need a fluorescent to feel the effects of electromagnetic field's.

Everything electrical produces electromagnetic field's. Take a gauss meter and put it next to a plug in carbon detector or next to your boom box, etc. You will get readings upward of 80 mg. The rule of thumb is, if I remember correctly, 4 mg or lower is on the safe side.
 
Joe.B said:
Count me in the skeptic camp as well, but I don't think anybody can completely rule out the possibility. My friends younger brother was having similar issues. After my friend moved out to go to college the parents got an electrician to completely separate a portion of the house with a new subpanel. His brother could flip one breaker off to help him sleep or any time he felt disturbances. Apparently it helped tremendously. They got the idea from a power outage that lasted a couple days and his brother said he never felt better. To put this into perspective though, my friend thinks his brother is just a hypochondriac, he doesn't believe that it was actually doing anything, but as long as his brother believes its helping then it doesn't really matter...
Click to expand...
I think there is a story arc on "Better Call Saul" that deals with this.
 
Joe.B said:
Count me in the skeptic camp as well, but I don't think anybody can completely rule out the possibility. My friends younger brother was having similar issues. After my friend moved out to go to college the parents got an electrician to completely separate a portion of the house with a new subpanel. His brother could flip one breaker off to help him sleep or any time he felt disturbances. Apparently it helped tremendously. They got the idea from a power outage that lasted a couple days and his brother said he never felt better. To put this into perspective though, my friend thinks his brother is just a hypochondriac, he doesn't believe that it was actually doing anything, but as long as his brother believes its helping then it doesn't really matter...
Click to expand...
There are some people who cannot sleep well if there is any artificial light, especially with a blue tint to it. No one really knows why but it is not unknown.
 
When I was touring the factory that makes SensorSwitches, they had a device that you could just walk up under a fluorescent light, and it could tell whether it was a magnet, or an electronic ballast. If I remember correctly, the electronic ballast are high frequency. I had customers change the color of the lamps because certain colors gave them headaches. Had one customer move the service from the outside wall of a bedroom claiming they could not sleep in there.
 
petersonra said:
There are some people who cannot sleep well if there is any artificial light, especially with a blue tint to it. No one really knows why but it is not unknown.
Click to expand...
IIRC, the blue light stimulates the rods or cones in the eye to trigger the brain into releasing the "time to get up!" enzyme or hormone or whatever. Hence the "night" mode for monitors and other displays. And it applies to all humans, not just some.
 
gadfly56 said:
IIRC, the blue light stimulates the rods or cones in the eye to trigger the brain into releasing the "time to get up!" enzyme or hormone or whatever. Hence the "night" mode for monitors and other displays. And it applies to all humans, not just some.
Click to expand...
Some are just more sensitive to the hormone than others.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top