Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Recognition and Management. A document on the health effects of everyday chemical exposures and their implications

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Phased Initiation by Anaesthetics and a New Building

“…This case is unusual in the severity of the leg weakness and lack of co-ordination provoked by exposures to low concentrations of chemicals, and the clear links with anaesthetics, but in many other ways is characteristic of the plight of patients with multiple chemical sensitivity [11]. The multiple reactions to foods and chemicals, each provoking part of her previous repertoire of symptoms, is particularly characteristic, but is often disbelieved.…”

MCS Matters: Material Agency in the Science and Practices of Environmental Illness

“…Moreover, by fixing the blame on an individual's psyche, the treatment absolves government, industry and the entire industrialpolitical world. By contrast, a forty-six-page report published in the Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine concludes with a list of government recommendations (for the U.K.), that aim to decrease the population's exposure to xenobiotic chemicals (Eaton et al 2000). Rather than placing the onus upon individuals, this report insists that "individuals currently cannot choose to avoid chemical exposures, and even reducing them is both expensive and socially isolating" (27).…”

Adverse Reactions to Foods: What is the Gold Standard?

“…It seems that, although hay fever is a pollenosis, some other environmental factor, probably associated with pollution from industry, had an adjuvant effect. More recent increases seem to be more associated with diesel particulates, pesticides, and household chemicals [38], and possibly with other changes such as reduced infections (or increased antibiotic use) in children. Hay fever can therefore reasonably be included under the title TILT, as can the provocation of arthritis, asthma, IBS, migraine, etc.…”