As for fires "reported" from electric blankets, I'd first check if the victim was an embarrassed smoker.
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Originally Posted by tis
Years ago I used an electric blanket all the time and loved it. Because of all the horror stories of those electromagnetic waves and how bad they are for you I stopped using it. I do still use a heating pad sometimes on my head when I have a real bad headache but that is it.
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As I've always felt the cold so, as an adult—I've used electric blankets almost every night—
year-round.
I don't know if my annoying—but not particularly intrusive—condition known as
peripheral neuropathy was contributed to by a lifetime use of electric blankets.
Peripheral neuropathy is a relatively common condition affecting the covering of the nerves in the extremities. (Nerves being the "electrical system" of the body). Some chemotherapy treatments result in peripheral neuropathy.
Do electric blankets warm persons through the wiring carrying AC or DC electricity?
Alternating Current has what are called
standing waves which, at high voltage, can be detected from many yards away. 'Course, there are primary causes of peripheral neuropathy—metals poisoning, for example—but when I asked my doctor, he brushed that electric blanket theory aside with a smile.
