Leszczynski Dariusz
Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Mhealth. 2025 Jul 14;11:35. doi: 10.21037/mhealth-25-4. eCollection 2025.
Wireless communication devices and networks are currently prevalent in human environment. Some persons claim to be sensitive to emitted by them microwave radiation. Commonly, this sensitivity is called electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) or microwave disease. However, because of the yet scientifically unproven link between radiation exposures and EHS symptoms, this sensitivity is also called idiopathic environmental intolerance attributed to electromagnetic fields (IEI-EMF). The sensitivity is not recognized by the World Health Organization as a disease or as being caused by exposures to wireless radiation. There are no medical tests for detecting sensitivity to wireless radiation. Physicians are not being educated to deal with persons who claim to be sensitive to wireless radiation. However, some persons who consider themselves to be sensitive to wireless radiation exposures claim to have medical diagnoses made by physicians or other health professionals. This project looked at the contradiction of the lack of diagnostic criteria for sensitivity to wireless radiation with the medical diagnoses claimed by some of the self-declared sensitive persons. Analysis of questionnaire responses of 142 self-declared sensitive persons suggests that, currently, it is not possible to diagnose sensitivity to wireless radiation exposures. The claimed medical diagnoses appear to be based on the anecdotal evidence presented by the self-declared sensitive persons. In some cases, medical tests were used but these tests lacked scientific proof of their ability to detect the sensitivity of a person to wireless radiation exposure. The proof of the existence of sensitivity to wireless radiation remains inadequate. However, logically and by analogy to other environmental stressors, it is likely that individual sensitivity to wireless radiation exists. Because provocation studies in wireless radiation-exposed volunteers alone seem unable to provide definite answers, further research using both, provocation and biochemical methods with controlled wireless radiation exposures in volunteers is necessary to discover diagnostic biomarkers of EHS.
无线通信设备和网络目前在人类环境中很普遍。一些人声称对它们发出的微波辐射敏感。通常，这种敏感性被称为电磁超敏反应（EHS）或微波病。然而，由于辐射暴露与EHS症状之间的联系尚未得到科学证实，这种敏感性也被称为归因于电磁场的特发性环境不耐受（IEI-EMF）。世界卫生组织不承认这种敏感性是一种疾病，也不认为它是由接触无线辐射引起的。目前没有检测对无线辐射敏感性的医学测试。医生没有接受过处理声称对无线辐射敏感的人的培训。然而，一些自认为对无线辐射暴露敏感的人声称已经由医生或其他健康专业人员做出了医学诊断。该项目研究了对无线辐射敏感性缺乏诊断标准与一些自称敏感的人所声称的医学诊断之间的矛盾。对142名自称敏感的人的问卷回复分析表明，目前，无法诊断对无线辐射暴露的敏感性。所声称的医学诊断似乎是基于自称敏感的人提供的轶事证据。在某些情况下，使用了医学测试，但这些测试缺乏科学证据证明其能够检测一个人对无线辐射暴露的敏感性。对无线辐射敏感性存在的证据仍然不足。然而，从逻辑上讲，并与其他环境应激源进行类比，个体对无线辐射的敏感性很可能存在。由于仅对暴露于无线辐射的志愿者进行激发研究似乎无法提供明确答案，因此有必要在志愿者中使用激发和生化方法并控制无线辐射暴露进行进一步研究，以发现EHS的诊断生物标志物。
