March 7, 2005
MOBILE RING TONES COULD BE BAD FOR YOUR SKIN'S HEALTH
Mobile phones have been accused of many things, but this is the first time they've been blamed for causing a skin rash.
I came across this article from British Nursing News Online following a link on Clive Thompson's collision detection blog. It dates back to June 2003, but it's so unusual, I'm publishing it anway.
"The sound of a constantly ringing mobile phone can trigger attacks of skin conditions such as eczema and dermatitis.
Laboratory tests by scientists in Japan showed that the stress of listening to mobiles can cause a major flare-up in symptoms.
The Japanese scientists set experiments where volunteers with a history of eczema or dermatitis were subjected to the sound of mobile phones ringing once a minute for 30 minutes.
The results, published in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, showed that playing computer games and putting up with ringing mobiles put the body's mechanisms under more stress and made skin conditions worse.
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