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Product Approval Process
cking
Wednesday, January 09, 2008 at 05:16 PMThis makes me wonder why the CFLS got approved in the first place if they contain mercury and cannot easily be recycled or disposed of. Please keep us posted, and I think I'll run my own personal experiment to determine whether the CFL worsens my migraines or increases frequency versus the incandescent. I tend to use indirect lighting these days. I hope the halogen bulgs don't have the same issues as the CFLs. Thanks, Nancy.
re: re: Product Approval Process
chuck
Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 03:17 AMSeveral years ago I began to be concerned about the mercury in these new CFL's. These are very dangerous to just about everything. Talk about a plume of mercury from land fills and you see where this can end up. And I mean IN YOU. However, I am now starting to hear that there are new types of lamps that use light emitting diodes. They are similar to what the "new" flash lights have in them. I've not seen any on store shelves, but are supposed to be very long lasting, very bright, can come in colors and have no mercury. Where can I get these new light bulbs?
Regards, Chuck
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Great Head Up
justgrateful
Thursday, January 10, 2008 at 02:24 PMThanks Nancy,
This is a great heads up to fluorescent bulbs, which are a big trigger for me and others. Just to add, I know in California, that when building of new houses that it is required by building code to put a certain amount of fluorescent lights (depending on square footage) in bathrooms and kitchen for energy effeciency (we own a construction company). It will be interesting to see if they can come up with an environmently friendly yet more efficient light bulb that does not contain Mercury. Thanks again
Dar
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I am green enough....
Kelly
Friday, January 11, 2008 at 09:24 AMI was thinking about getting CFLs. I try to be eco-friendly, but I have been holding off b/c I can't find a 40 watt equivalent. (I don't like 60 and 100 is just out o the question. Bright light is a big trigger for me). Now I have another reason. I get enough migs as it is and I am barely exposed to florescents. -
They do trigger me
Megan Oltman
Friday, January 11, 2008 at 12:11 PMMy husband just replaced the two flood lights over my desk with cfls - and they were okay until I started getting a migraine, then they became intolerable. I certainly hope they come up with lower environmental impact in the incandescent bulbs, because I don't think I'll be able to live with only cfls. Thanks for the news update! -
An alternative to CFLs
MaxJerz
Friday, January 11, 2008 at 06:06 PM -
flourecent lights
hot needle
Friday, January 11, 2008 at 09:54 PMI never thought too much about lights until we bought our last house. There were three flourscent lights in the kitchen. One was above the sink where I always did dishes, one above the taqble, and one to light up what the other two didn't! I kept getting headaches in the kitchen! When I turned off the lights one by one it was better. However it took a year to discover that the culpret was the lights!

My husbands friend told us about these lights! He changed two of the three to regular lights-no more headaches! Thank God!
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mercury in bulbs
DebMomm
Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 08:10 PM
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