{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5571","number":"5571","name":"Kelly Carlson","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-27T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-21T04:00Z","body":"Hello. Thank you for the opportunity to comment on this important issue. \n\nI’m the mother of an 8 year old son with severe autism and PANDAS. It’s been a long journey of some terrible, terrifying, dark years. Last year, we invested in bio medical testing and discovered our son had mold and heavy metal toxicity. \n\nWe live in Minneapolis. MN. We moved out of our moldy house and into temporary housing in a nearby suburb in Eden Prarie. Within a week, all my son’s most difficult symptoms disappeared. He became calm. He wasn’t having melt downs or injuring himself. He was sleeping through the night. He stopped wetting the bed. His bowel movements improved.  He became easy going and was smiling and laughing again. Within a month, the change was miraculous.\n\nWe moved into a new, mold-free apartment in Minneapolis. He wasn’t doing as well. His conatipation returned. He was agitated and struggling with transitions again. I started looking into the differences between the two locations and one possibility was EMF’s. \n\nI checked the cell tower maps. The temporary housing had six cell towers within three miles, and they were all at least one mile away. Our house and apartment in Minneapolis have hundreds and several within 1/2 mile radius! We also have solar panels on the roof which I learned is a huge issue.\n\nWe started mitigating EMF’s in our apartment - hard wiring our phones and computers, and we got him an EMF blocking canopy for his bed. He improved greatly, but it is taking a lot more effort and interventions to maintain and build on what was coming easily in Eden Prarie. There is simply too much exposure living in the city, and with our apartment neighbors all having WIFI and Smart Appliances.\n\nThis is a growing issue! I can’t even send my son to school because of mold and EMF’s with the cell towers being right on the school property! They don’t belong anywhere near residential areas. \n\nI’ve learned that EMF’s exacerbate mold growth and mycotoxin activity uo to 600x. We still have mold colonized in our bodies being activated by the EMF’s. I’ve also learned that if you have high heavy metals (which mold causes), your body attracts more of the radiation.\n\nWe need legislation stopping this biological warfare.","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5571","tags":["child-development","health-experiences","sleep-cognition","exposure-places"],"source_hash":"9dea6e5f7c4ba1bdf4c2a9c6d454de3ec868aa4018e832619000303688f5dae3","slug":"child-development-comment-5571","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5571","body_sha256":"12ec1f8e690bb611008daf6d641852300ee06db812f5bb7ef33ad2f0faac47fa","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"children","topics":[{"id":"children","evidence":"this important issue. \n\nI’m the mother of an 8 year old son with severe autism and PANDAS. It’s been a long journey of some "},{"id":"infrastructure","evidence":"d one possibility was EMF’s. \n\nI checked the cell tower maps. The temporary housing had six cell towers within three miles, a"},{"id":"environment","evidence":" areas. \n\nI’ve learned that EMF’s exacerbate mold growth and mycotoxin activity uo to 600x. We still have mold colonized "},{"id":"electricity","evidence":"several within 1/2 mile radius! We also have solar panels on the roof which I learned is a huge issue.\n\nWe started mitigat"},{"id":"optical","evidence":" started mitigating EMF’s in our apartment - hard wiring our phones and computers, and we got him an EMF blocking canopy "},{"id":"access","evidence":"mart Appliances.\n\nThis is a growing issue! I can’t even send my son to school because of mold and EMF’s with the cell towers being right on th"}],"summary":"The commenter describes changes in an autistic child's symptoms across homes, considers EMFs alongside mold and metal exposure, reports improvement with wiring and shielding, and requests legislation and separation of towers from schools and residences.","reviewed_at":"2026-10-27T23:26:06Z","review_method":"Full comment-text review with exact source evidence; attachments not reviewed","review_source_sha256":"189a3588fccbc06897ae3ed6b879c4ff997174f410210060cc3de93c9e70bbf9","source_url":"https://rfsafe.net/hhs-comments/data/catalog.json","scope":"Original comment body; attachments excluded"},"forum_topics":["children","infrastructure","environment","electricity","optical","access"],"primary_topic":"children","forum_title":"The commenter describes changes in an autistic child's symptoms across homes, considers EMFs alongside mo…"}