Correspondence
Cerebral symptoms from mobile telephones
EDITOR
Disturbing symptoms from the use of
mobile telephones are being increasingly reported and have been
described by Hocking.1 One of us (RAFC) has also collected
a series of such cases but has not published them to date.
Many of these cases are characterised by symptoms of dizziness,
disorientation, nausea, headache, and transient confusion. Such
symptoms might be expected to arise from unilateral stimulation of the
vestibular apparatus. This could occur from the direct action of the
radiowaves on the endolymph or the hair cells in the semicircular
canals or from convection currents set up in the external auditory
meatus from the heat of the mobile phone. Most patients complain of a
sensation of heating round the ear, often accompanied by reddening of
the skin. Blanks et al2 have shown that there is significant variability in the precise
orientation of the
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