Mobiles 'made me allergic to TV'

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Mobiles 'made me allergic to TV'

13:54pm 29th January 2005

A company boss cannot watch television, turn on a computer or fly long distance after mobile phones made him allergic to electricity, he claimed.

Chief executive Brian Stein is forced to sit in an office virtually free from electrical devices in his food company in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

He claims he suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity - a condition which is not recognised by medical Science but which mobile phone campaigners believe is increasing rapidly.

he Department of Health and mobile phone companies are now funding studies into the condition to establish if there is a link.

Mr Stein said he started experiencing headaches around four years ago which he linked with his constant use of his mobile as part of his work for Samworth Brothers.

The 55-year-old said the problem got worse and he began to feel unwell when he was near a television, computer or in his car.

He now drives older cars, which are fitted with fewer electrical devices, and cannot go to the cinema or even listen to CDs.

He told the Leicester Mercury: "I suspect that in 20 years we will have a problem that will make the issue of asbestos pale into insignificance.

"What I would like is for people to understand how this can happen. So if someone else experiences sensations in their ears and head, then there will be enough publicity for them to read, so they are not as stupid as I was."

The condition has caused so much concern that a campaign group called ElectroSensitivity-UK has begun to try to get the illness officially recognised.

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