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I would love to see an actual test done on this. We are all exposed to EMF all the time, and have been to greater or lesser degrees throughout all of history.

I'm inclined to believe that this woman is having a psychosomatic reaction. It would be pretty interesting to see if she could sit in a room that had an emitter in it that she didn't know about. Would she be affected? What if she was told there was an EMF source and there was none?

I agree: it's more than likely psychosomatic.

ebrown, PAD (practically a doctor)

As an armchair doctor, that was my initials thoughts on this, too. Lots of electronic devices generate EMF fields and she's probably got a few of them in her house.

Regardless if this is all in her mind or not, her body is still freaking out. LOOK AT THE PIC! Her face is seconds from being bloody. I'll take it as her body being so bombarded by EMFs that this is how it reacts. And, who is to say that this isnt how the body reacts? She could quite possibly be the first person out of thousands who has found this out the hard way and pays for it physically. I wont be surprised if others step forward with the same kind of symptoms. We are surround by EMFs and not only are we affected on the outside of your bodies but on the inside too as we nuke our foods like the hot dogs or soups you had the other day.

Zina, our bodies have been bombarded by EMFs since we crawled out of the primordial ooze. We have billions of people on earth constantly exposed to EMF. Back over time we have had trillions. Why have we not seen tons of cases of spontaneous reddening before? You don't need man-made electronics to cause EMF. The earth is bathed in naturally occurring EMF all the time. Even now you are being saturated with EMF from the all over the universe.

How would "nuking" our food put EMFs in our bodies? All a microwave does is flip a water or fat molecule back and forth very quickly, causing heat. Turn off the microwave and all we have are some vibrating molecules. Exactly like what happens when you heat something in a conventional oven (or leave it out in the sun for that matter).

I propose that this is all in her head, because there is currently no evidence in play that indicates EMF as the source here. As stated earlier, I'd love to see some double-blind testing done with these claims.

Oh its in the Daily Mail, it must be true then...