Electromagnetic Fields and the Life Environment 

Quoted from : "Electromagnetic Fields and the Life Environment" by Karel Marha, Jan Musil, and Hana Tuha. Published by San Francisco Press, Inc. Page 30.

"Subjective Complaints of Persons Working in Rf Field.  Workers complain of headaches and eyestrain, together with a flow of tears, of fatigue derived from over-all weakness, and dizziness after prolonged standing. At night their sleep is disturbed and superficial and they are sleepy in daytime. Such persons are moody, frequently irritated, and even unsociable.  They manifest hypochondriac reactions and a feeling of fear.

Sometimes they perceive nervous tension or, on the contrary, mental depression combined with deterioration of intellectual functions (notably memory impairment).  Over a longer period, definite sluggishness and inability to make decisions result.  Those affected complain of a pulling sensation in the scalp and on the brow, loss of hair, pain in the muscles and in the heart region (together with a pounding of the heart), and breathing difficulties. Not infrequently they complain of difficulties in their sex life. It is moreover possible to observe slight trembling of the eyelids, the tongue, and the fingers, increased perspiration of the extremities, dermographism, and brittleness of fingernails. A single irradiation may cause a drop in the resistance of the organism (259, 279).  With regard to the dependence of the effect of RF field on sex, women are generally more sensitive to this factor than men (64, 190, 262). Reference has been made to a decrease of lactation in nursing mothers (186, 195).

*Dermographism (writing on the skin"): hypersensitivity to mechanical stimulation.  Repeated mild friction of the skin immediately results in red spots because of local irritation and vascularization. In some person, such increased irritability is congenital. It is quite common in neurotics.