what are hypotheses of hypersensitivty to electricity?
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Who knows? People who believe they are hypersensitive to electric fields are ironically also more likely than others to believe magnetic bracelets can cure things.  The fact is, there is no real difference between electrical & magnetic fields, they are manifestations of the same thing.
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Sounds like static electricty, which tends to develop in windy dry conditions.  Check it out.
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You gave very little info so this is only a guess.\n\nMaybe this patient had some kind of hypersensitivity reaction.\n\nNot sure.
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Yeah, it was first identified in rats while studying epilepsy. They implanted electrodes in the rats' brains, and used a small current to trigger a seizure. Over time, they found that the current could be steadily reduced, until eventually the rats had seizures with no stimulus at all. In other words, it's a 'sensitization' thing.\n\nThe same effect takes place in unmedicated bipolar patients. The current thinking is that epsiodes, at least in the early years, are triggered by external events/stresses. Without treatment, the bipolar brain becomes more and more sensitive to these triggers, until eventually the sufferer cycles continuously, without needing to be triggered.\n\nIt is also believed that the episodes will become more serious over time, if untreated.
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D - it can cause hyperpolarization or depolarization of membrane
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Burns, fibrillation of the heart and neurological effects. See: \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_shock
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its just static electricity as far as I know caused by friction such as when you rub a balloon on your head and your hair raises. Also our bodies are naturally full of electricity
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A brief explanation of what's going on - in the dry weather, you're building up static electricity on your body as you walk around. When you touch a metal object (like a doorknob) that has very little electric charge, the charge is transferred to the other object.\n\nSo, the short answer is that to prevent the annoying shocks, you need to avoid building up electricity, or keep discharging it to objects. Touching metal frequently will help. Also, you can avoid some of the annoying effects by touching things with something other than your fingertips first - for example, the back of your hand. Your fingertips are very sensitive, and it may not be as unpleasant to get small shocks on other parts of your body.
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Current burns, voltage jerks the muscles.  Too much current, you're toast.  Too much voltage, your heart stops.\n\nStatic built up from rubbing your socks on the carpet probably won't kill you.\n\nSeveral years back, in the wintertime, there were some news reports of people whose car blew up at the gas pumps.  Supposedly it was due to static electricity.\n\nIt's rare to get "shocked" outside when getting in or out of one's car or touching it or whatever but it does happen.  I remember a couple times in the past 5 years when it happened to me. A tiny percentage of times I have done that but way more than zero.\n\nSo, I guess the combination of a spark and being by your open gas tank could kills you, indirectly.\n\nTaking an extreme counter-example, there was a girl struck by lightening at the WHFS alternative rock festival in DC a few years ago. Apparently it knocked her a few feet from where she was standing.  But, it didn't kill her.  She was lucky.\n\nStatic charges build up more easily in wintertime. The air is dryer.  Something about the air molecules is different when there is less moisture.  I forget what, but you have probably noticed more "static" shocks in winter than any other time of year, unless you live in a really cold, dry place.\n\nA three inch spark seems pretty far.\n\nIn high school physics class, they said that each inch that a spark travelled off a sphere through the air indicated 10,000 volts.  I think it was 10,000.  Well, you're not a sphere and you are probably not touching one but that still seems like a lot.\n\nI used to get shocks of half or three quarters of an inch  when touching the corners of walls at the house I grew up in all the time.  That was really nothing.  I barely felt it.  It was just a surprise to feel it, and also to see the spark leap between the wall and your finger.\n\nModern buildings have grounding wires on all the outlets and stuff like that, to prevent electrical problems.  Not sure what really old buildings are like.\n\nIf you are wearing a sweater or wool clothing, that could increase the amount of static charge you build up.  There are all kinds of things that could do it.\n\nIf it happens on warm, humid days when you are not wearing any wool or sweaters, that would really be strange.  If not, maybe it is what you are wearing or the atmosphere that is mostly responsible.\n\nAlso, carpet is a big factor.\n\nFeeling it hours later, that's freaky. That never happened to me.
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Environmental allergies.
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I checked out those links.  It looks like a bunch of BS to me.  (FWIW, I have a BS in Physics with 33 graduate hours in Physics and a Masters in Science Ed.)\n\nFirst, the facts:  Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) are produced whenever electric charges are in motion, i.e. in all electrical devices.  Light rays are one form of EMF's.  We already know how to protect against those: Wear sunblock.  \n\nBut the EMF's that we're talking about here are radio frequency EMF's, which are much lower on the spectrum, and thus have much less energy.  The EMF's that have caused concern in the medical field are Extremely Low Frequency radio waves such as those produced by power lines.  When electricity is moving down the lines, oscillating back and forth 60 times a second, it sends off these low frequency radio waves.  Some epidemiological studies have associated long term exposure to these ELF radio waves with childhood leukemia.  This is still controversial, however, and the US EPA has not issued any official position about EMF exposure.\nIn any event, with power lines we're talking about constant exposure to relatively high (1 mG) EMF's.  You wouldn't get that from your home computer unless you parked yourself within 4 inches of it for 24 hours a day.  Remember, EMF's drop off in intensity as the square of the distance, e.g. doubling your distance reduces them by a factor of four, tripling the distance reduces them by a factor of nine.\n\nAnyway, the only real way to shield something from low frequency EMF's is to completely enclose it in a metal box or wire mesh.  These things are essentially versions of what physicists call a Faraday Cage.  The idea is that the metallic condutors absorb the EMF's so they don't penetrate the cage.  Radio engineers protect sensitive radio equipment this way.  Security experts do the same thing the other way around.  Radios, TV's and even computers and electric typewriters produce minute radio waves that can be picked up by very sensitive receivers, so to prevent spies from finding out what's going on in sensitive government sites, they shield them in metallic conductors.\n\nThe device your links show clearly does not surround you, so it can't be effective in shielding from EMFs.  All the talk about sympathetic oscillations is true but meaningless.  Any piece of metal does that; that's how antennas work.  An antenna is just a piece of metal; when a vibrating EMF hits the antenna, the electons start to vibrate in synch with it.  IOW, you could get the same result as these devices claim by just wearing a piece of metal on your chest.  The claims about blood flow, "healthy energy states", etc. are just nonsense.
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I don't know if your looking for info specifically on the visual hypersensitivity or just on autism in general. I would recommend contacting the connections center. Dr Gutstein has developed an amazing program. You can get more info at  rdiconnect.com\n\n\nAlso there was a link on the autism research institutes website. Dr Kaplan did some pretty interesting work.
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you will feel an energy reaction, it'll be from a range to tingling (very minute) to a large wave of energy.
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Friction causes the electrical charge. Touch something rubber to kill it. Touch metal to continue the conduction thus shocking yourself or others. Break the curcuit.
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As acknowledged by the Physicians' Desk Reference, some individuals are hypersensitive to fluoride. \n\nHypersensitive reactions to fluoride have been reported for both topical fluorides & ingested fluorides. The largest, government-funded, clinical trial found that 1% of people ingesting 1 mg fluoride tablets exhibited allergic/hypersensitive reactions to fluoride. \n\nSymptoms of allergic/hypersensitive reactions have been reported to include: skin rashes (e.g. dermatitis, urticaria, eczema); mouth lesions (canker sores); gastric distress; headache; joint pain; weakness; visual disturbances; and lethargy.
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Negative waves...negative engergy...The best thing to do is buy a sage smudging stick, light it, and let the smoke waft all over your house and body. It works to remove any negative energy that is existing in your home and yourself. You can buy them in metophysical stores and places who carry religious supplies. This really works. It smells, but its worth it.
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Nonionizing radiation is electromagnetic radiation that includes: \n\nRadio waves \nMicrowaves \nInfrared light \nVisible light \nHazards of Nonionizing Radiation\n\nUnlike ionizing radiation, nonionizing radiation does not have enough photon energy to remove an electron from an atom. However, it can still be hazardous. For example: \n\nPowerful industrial lasers, which emit tightly focused or coherent beams of visible light, can burn through human tissue and even metal. \nSome nonionizing radiation can interfere with the operation of heart pacemakers and other medical devices, as well as critical equipment in aircraft. \nHigh levels of radio frequency and microwave radiation can heat tissue and if the temperature increase is high enough, can adversely affect health. \nElectric and Magnetic Fields\nExtremely low-frequency electric and magnetic fields (EMFs) surround electrical machinery, home appliances, electric wiring, and high-voltage electrical transmission lines and transformers. (Figure 11) \n\nA good deal of public and government attention has been focused in recent years on the possible health effects of EMFs. The public is exposed to these fields through the generation, transmission, and use of electric power. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has compiled information on this issue. (You can get more information on this and other issues from the NIEHS Web site http://www.niehs.nih.gov/emfrapid) \n\nHigh-voltage power transmission and distribution lines have been a major focus of concern. Alternating-current (AC) electricity, with a frequency of 60 cycles per second, falls into the extremely low frequency range on the electromagnetic spectrum and thus has far too little energy to cause ionization. \n\nHowever, AC electric and magnetic fields can induce electric currents in conducting materials, including human and animal tissue. (Direct-current fields, such as the Earth's magnetic field, do not have this effect). The electric current induced in our bodies may have potential biological and health effects. \n\nEvidence of health effects from EMF is inconclusive, although some studies have indicated a possible link between EMFs and childhood leukemia and other forms of cancer. The information available, however, is not sufficient to establish a cause-effect relationship. \n\nSome studies have reported the possibility of increased cancer risks, especially leukemia and brain cancer, for electrical workers and others whose jobs require them to be around electrical equipment. Additional risk factors, however, such as exposure to cancer-initiating agents, may also be involved. \n\nSome researchers have looked at possible associations between EMF exposure and breast cancer, miscarriages, depression, suicides, Alzheimer's disease, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease), but the general scientific consensus is that the evidence is not yet conclusive. \n\nIn June of 1998, a special review panel convened by the NIEHS reviewed EMF health studies. A majority of the panel found "limited evidence that residential exposure to extremely low frequency magnetic fields may increase the risk of childhood leukemia." A majority also found limited evidence that workplace exposure to EMFs may cause chronic lymphocytic leukemia in adults. \n\nAccording to NIEHS, "the probability that EMF exposure is truly a health hazard is currently small. The weak epidemiological associations and lack of any laboratory support for these associations provide only marginal scientific support that exposure to this agent is causing any degree of harm." The NIEHS did conclude, however, in its 1999 Report to Congress, that extremely-low-frequency EMF exposure cannot be recognized as entirely safe because of weak scientific evidence that exposure may pose a leukemia hazard; the associations reported for childhood leukemia and ad