Children & vulnerable groups

My strange health issues started in 2012 when I got my first smart phone. I started experiencing heart issues, extreme fatigue, and positional headaches. I was also worse off in certain places than others. I found being outdoors in rural areas gave me some relief. I was experiencing episodes of pvc’s and tachycardia. My headaches were determined by what physical position I was in. Just the act of bending my head a little forward or down a ways would bring relief. Sometimes instant relief. If I stood back up, the headache came on again. My fatigue began to manifest in having to lie down, no matter where I was at. Driving anywhere became a challenge and being in the car seemed to bring my symptoms on more. In my research I came across the negative effects of EMF’s on certain people and I began to see the correlation between my EMF exposure and my symptoms. Fast forward to 2026: I live rural, have ethernet in my home, and a landline phone. I do have a cell phone but I use it sparingly and keep it as far away from me as possible and keep it on airplane mode most of the time. I no longer have positional headaches. My fatigue is much better along with my heart issues. I now drive an older car and turn off all the Bluetooth capabilities and I am able to make small trips around town. I am one of the fortunate ones who is able to live in a home where I can control my exposure. However, I worry about the impact on children. In 1989 a lab in San Marcos California was testing cell phones to make sure that they follow the FCC guidelines. They used a mannequin called Sam and they would use the maximum amount of EMF radiation that can come off a phone and measure how much was heating his brain and whether it was safe or not. The problem was they used this mannequin which was based on being 6 foot two man and weighing 220 pounds. This head was bigger than the heads of 95% of all cell phone users. So, if you’re a woman, teenager, or small child this test would exceed your limits. Children’s bodies contain a lot more water than adults and their heads absorb up to two times more radiation from the same exposure compared to what most adults get- not to mention a child’s bone marrow absorbs up to 10 times more. Knowing this, what does the future look like for the millions of children who are exposed to this every day all day without a break. We don’t know the physical, emotional, and mental outcomes that this will have on their futures. I truly believe we need to have some guidelines and restrictions of wi fi use in our schools. Please take all this into consideration. Thank you

My daughter gets a headache when she goes to the class that has the 5G tower above the classroom Monday through Friday. It will get less when she leaves the school. It makes it hard to concentrate in that classroom.

After moving from an isolated rural location on a lake into a small town in 2000, in short order, I noticed physical symptoms: - incessant ringing of the ears - cardiac rhythm disturbances - insomnia - body itching None of this has ever left to this day. The difference in locations was denser exposure in the town, neighbors' wifi, my own wifi, and no longer enjoyed a clean dial-up web connection. It is as simple as that. This collective of symptoms is certainly mentioned in the literature as related to EMF exposure. Now that I am in a city seniors development, where I am surrounded by even more neighbors, and in eye-shot of two large cell towers, I am never really comfortable with accentuated symptoms. Governments must no longer ignore the accumulated data that puts us all in jeopardy, and especially the young developing brains. Let's clean up our acts of self-destruction.

I live in a rural area , a 5G cell tower was put up by our home and my entire family has experienced a myriad of very concerning symptoms . I had no control despite the entire neighborhood trying to prevent it from happening. I have small children and am very upset and concerned.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a concerned member of the public. I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals and families with an opportunity to be heard.

Had to move out of an apt my son and I had been living in for over 3 years. A radio tower was installed mearby, less than 100 ft from our bedroom. I experienced severe headaches and my 3 year old son had profuse nosebleeds. I now cannot be near radio frequencies, wifi or electromagnetic energy without adverse effects such as intense ringing in ears.

I am submitting this comment in response to HHS’s Request for Information on Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs), Radiofrequency (RF) Radiation, and Wireless Radiation Exposure. I am responding from the perspective of a parent, family member, healthcare professional and a concerned member of the public . PERSONALIZE YOUR COMMENT HERE: For me, reducing exposure made a difference in my headaches and brain fog. I also think every state..to include Colorado, needs to have an opt out program for every homeowner who would like to opt ot of a smart meter in their home. I have tried and tried and CO won't budge where I live. I should be able to opt out of radiating my bedroom (which is on the other side).  I support HHS taking an active role in examining the potential health and environmental effects of wireless radiation. Questions about human health should be addressed by federal agencies with appropriate expertise in medicine, biology, epidemiology, and public health, and the experiences of individuals and families who report being affected should be considered alongside the scientific evidence. I urge HHS to carefully evaluate these experiences and the scientific evidence, identify gaps in current research, give particular attention to children and other potentially vulnerable populations, and establish appropriate federal research priorities regarding wireless radiation and public health. Thank you for providing individuals, families, health care providers, researchers and scientists with an opportunity to be finally be heard on this critical public health issue

Questions 2–3: Experience I work in IT/marketing technology and coach youth/high school sports. My symptoms have included migraines, facial tingling, confusion, slowed processing, debilitating fatigue, anxiety, blurred vision, tinnitus, lost sleep, nosebleeds, and involuntary muscle and eye twitching. I report symptoms around TriMeter RF readings of about 1 mW/m² and aim for below 0.5 mW/m² at home. EMF-associated episodes feel similar to entering a moldy building. My nervous system feels under constant attack, unable to distinguish biotoxin illness, allergies, and EMF. This describes my experience, not a confirmed mechanism. I feel persistent reactivity impedes recovery. For over a decade, I worked/slept 5–10 feet from a Wi-Fi router. I suspect prolonged exposure, mold/mycotoxin illness, or possible Bartonella/Mycoplasma infections contributed. These are hypotheses based on thoughtful reflection. Dr. Neil Nathan’s book and online research eventually led me to RF/EMF meters. An environmental illness/biotoxin physician told me he lacked expertise here. Impacts: • Employment: Finding work from a wired home office is difficult; many jobs require office attendance. Symptoms in wireless-heavy offices challenge my ability to earn income. I have struggled to find a clear diagnostic pathway and documentation for disability recognition, accommodations, or support. • Coaching: Symptoms impair quick decisions and emotional regulation. Some parks, schools, and stadiums host antennas [5–6]. I cannot relocate events. • Transportation: Cars are my worst environments. Cell phones, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and vehicle electronics concern me. Some planes, buses, and trains offer Wi-Fi, plus cellular transmissions where permitted. • Relationships: Family and friends sometimes disregard device boundaries. Some have called me “crazy,” adding conflict and isolation. • Housing: Avoiding nearby towers and neighboring apartment Wi-Fi, building a wired home, and finding appliances without wireless transmitters have been difficult. • Daily life: Wi-Fi in stores, malls, hotels, and offices feels ubiquitous. • Hospitals: Extensive Wi-Fi coverage makes hospitals particularly difficult for me. Caring for my parents at the end of their lives was harder because of symptoms I experienced there. I fear being hospitalized without a tolerable environment or accommodations. Questions 9, 11, 15: Children/accountability My children have experienced illness we associate with mold/mycotoxin exposure. I worry about classroom exposures and possible susceptibility from preexisting illness. Provide independent measurements near schools/homes, including towers a few hundred yards away. Proximity alone does not establish excessive exposure. Municipal responses assigning monitoring to carriers leave accountability unclear. Clarify carrier duties, FCC oversight, local roles, and complaints [7]. Approving towers as routine infrastructure without a public vote concerns me. Please ensure advance notice, accessible plans, meaningful public comment, and transparent decisions. If a nearby line-of-sight tower made symptoms unmanageable, I might need to uproot my family. I fear tolerable urban/suburban housing will become harder to find. Moving cannot prevent new towers. Question 16: Research Study sleep, cognition, emotional regulation, and mental health, especially in young people. Reports linking rage or suicidal thoughts to EMF symptoms concern me but do not prove causation or explain school violence. Distinguish exposure effects from pain, sleep loss, isolation, device use, and other factors. Assess vehicle RF alongside magnetic fields from electrical systems, fan motors, and rotating magnetized tire belts [1]. Reflections can create localized RF hotspots; vehicle bodies alter absorption patterns [2–3]. Investigate mold interactions. Ahmad et al. reported increased and decreased fungal growth and aflatoxin production under static magnetic fields [4]. Prioritize research, respectful care, transmitter disclosure, wireless shutoffs, wired alternatives, and workplace/hospital accommodations. Sources [1] Tire fields: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10495309/ [2] RF reflections: https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.75.084801 [3] Vehicle RF: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17518290/ [4] Mold/static fields: https://anjs.edu.iq/index.php/anjs/article/view/688 [5] Park antennas: https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/ho-17-002.pdf [6] School antennas: https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/pds/PC/240920-supporting-documents/Item%202%20SDSAN00442B.pdf [7] FCC rules: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-19-126A1_Rcd.pdf

I have battled with the negative effects of cell phone towers for many decades. On my daily commute, visiting local parks and even attending an annual fair event at our local fairgrounds I have been bombarded by these signals. I get an instant headache that sometimes will not go away for hours after passing by these towers that seem to be multiplying all over the place . I have observed people who have purchased a home with a disguised cell tower next to their backyard. This house has changed hands many times over the past few years since it was built leaving me to question are the folks dying from ill health effects or getting assaulted daily by the same symptoms that infiltrate my reality. This technology is not safe, has proven ill effects and yet we continue to allow this to spread upon our society like a virus. On occasion I go to Camarillo , California where I see a cell phone towers across from an elementary school. In my own town of Ventura , California I see multiple towers at a city college .. a couple more in a shopping center that has a karate studio for children. This is unacceptable for our government to continue to put our youth at risk. The time to take action is now. The ill affects on our children’s future is not worth the benefits of this system. We can do better and need to if we expect to evolve as a civilized society.

This is to submit this series of article in the New Yorker called "Annals of Radiation" I will paste an excerpt here from the second article and a link https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1989/06/19/the-hazards-of-electromagnetic-fields-ii-something-is-happening excerpt: Meanwhile, Adey was pushing on with research aimed at finding out how weak electromagnetic fields might trigger amplified changes in brain chemistry. Since his earlier work with Leonard K. Kaczmarek, a biochemist, on calcium ions had suggested that highly non-linear effects must be involved—effects that would allow large releases of chemical energy to be triggered by tiny stimuli—he now proposed a three-stage model based upon the amplification of weak cell-surface events. In the first stage, the cell membrane senses the arrival of a weak field and reacts to it by initiating, in domino fashion, a release of calcium bound to the protein strands that protrude from the membrane surface. (Because of the domino effect, the energy released by the altered calcium binding is far greater than that of the initiating chemical or electric triggers.) In the second stage, this released energy is transmitted, in the form of signals that travel along the protein strands, to the interior of the cell. In the third stage, the cell interior reacts to the arriving signal by stimulating or inhibiting intracellular enzymes—protein molecules that act as chemical catalysts. During 1981 and 1982, Adey and Daniel B. Lyle, a research immunologist at the University of California, Riverside, together with two associates, demonstrated that the PAVE PAWS carrier frequency of 450 MHz modulated at the electrical-distribution-system frequency of sixty hertz could significantly suppress the ability of cultured T-lymphocyte cells from mice to kill cultured cancer cells; and when the four researchers published their findings in the journal Bioelectromagnetics, in 1983, they noted that progressively smaller suppression occurred when the microwave radiation was modulated at forty, sixteen, and three hertz. These findings had possibly serious implications, of course—not only for the tens of thousands of people living close to PAVE PAWS but also for the tens of millions of people living in the vicinity of power lines and electrical-distribution wires. Indeed, when Lyle later repeated the study, using simulated sixty-hertz high-voltage power-line fields, he again observed a large suppression of the killing capacity of T-lymphocyte cells—a chilling finding in the context of the 1979 study by the epidemiologist Nancy Wertheimer and the physicist Ed Leeper which found an increased incidence of cancer in children in the Greater Denver area who had been exposed to low-level magnetic fields from high-current electrical-distribution wires. The results of a study that was performed in 1983 by Craig V. Byus, an assistant professor of biomedical sciences and biochemistry in the Department of Biochemistry of the University of California, Riverside, together with Adey and two researchers from Byus’s department, gave cause for further concern about the future well-being of the inhabitants of Upper Cape Cod. Byus and his colleagues exposed cultures of human-tonsil lymphocytes for periods of up to sixty minutes to low level 450 MHz radiation modulated at ELF frequencies ranging from three to a hundred hertz. They found that the activity of certain protein-kinase enzymes within the lymphocyte cells was sharply reduced when the microwave field was modulated at certain frequencies between sixteen and sixty hertz. Because the effect upon the activity of the protein kinase was transient, Byus and Adey were cautious in their assessment of it when they and their associates published their findings, in Bioelectromagnetics, in 1984. They warned, however, that their observations regarding the effects of ELF-modulated radiation on human-tonsil lymphocytes, together with the findings of the earlier mouse-lymphocyte study, required additional and careful assessment. On August 18, 1984, the Cape Cod Times published a front-page article about the final results of Guy and Chou’s study. It started out by saying, “A five-year study on the long-term effects of low levels of microwave radiation has sparked a new debate over the safety of the Air Force’s PAVE PAWS microwave radar station in Bourne.” The article went on to quote Ruth Hubbard, the Harvard biology professor whose affidavit warning of the dangers of PAVE PAWS radiation had been dismissed as irrelevant five years earlier by Federal District Judge Tauro.<snip>