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  "id": "questions:what-should-i-do-if-i-think-im-electrosensitive",
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  "slug": "what-should-i-do-if-i-think-im-electrosensitive",
  "name": "What should I do if I think I'm electrosensitive?",
  "summary": "Have the symptoms evaluated clinically, measure before you buy anything, and remove cheap exposures first. Don't treat precautionary guideline values as health-based limits or shield before measuring.",
  "status": "verified",
  "lastVerified": "2026-08-12",
  "data": {
    "question": "I think I react to EMF — what are the sensible next steps?",
    "answer": "See a clinician about the symptoms themselves: that is what WHO recommends and what ANSES asked French health services to be trained for, and it is the step most likely to find something treatable. In parallel, two things are worth doing because they cost little and settle facts rather than beliefs: measure your own environment so that any change you make can be checked against a number, and remove the exposures that are cheap to remove — wired network instead of Wi-Fi in the bedroom, chargers and cordless base stations away from the bed, wiring faults corrected. What the evidence does not support is spending on shielding before measuring, or treating precautionary guideline values from clinical associations as though they were health-based limits.",
    "cluster": "health",
    "aliases": [
      "I think I am electrosensitive",
      "EHS what to do",
      "reduce EMF exposure sensitive",
      "electrosensitivity help"
    ],
    "related": [
      "protocols:sleeping-area-assessment",
      "studies:anses-2018-ehs",
      "questions:what-should-i-measure-first",
      "questions:do-emf-protection-devices-work"
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "who-ehs",
      "title": "Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (WHO backgrounder, December 2005; formerly Fact sheet 296)",
      "publisher": "World Health Organization",
      "url": "https://www.who.int/teams/environment-climate-change-and-health/radiation-and-health/non-ionizing/hypersensitivity",
      "year": 2005,
      "kind": "government",
      "retrieved": "2026-08-12"
    },
    {
      "id": "anses-2018-ehs-summary",
      "title": "Hypersensibilité aux ondes électromagnétiques : amplifier l'effort de recherche et adapter la prise en charge des personnes concernées",
      "publisher": "ANSES, France",
      "url": "https://anses.fr/fr/content/hypersensibilit%C3%A9-aux-ondes-%C3%A9lectromagn%C3%A9tiques-amplifier-l%E2%80%99effort-de-recherche-et-adapter-la",
      "year": 2018,
      "kind": "government",
      "retrieved": "2026-08-12"
    }
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