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	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, CDFS-192-96
		Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is the name given to the broad issue of reactions to specific or cumulative chemicals in the environment.
		Chemical sensitivity is generally accepted as a reaction by certain individuals to chemicals but debate rages on whether MCS is classifiable as an illness.
		These interactions of chemicals can be isolated in laboratories, but the human body, and the unique ability of each body to respond to different chemicals in different ways, makes it difficult to understand the effects of any one chemical in a particular concentration on any person.
	ohioline.osu.edu /cd-fact/0192.html (1436 words)

	Multiple chemical sensitivity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), also known as "20th Century Syndrome", "Environmental illness", "Sick Building Syndrome", Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance (IEI), can be defined as a "chronic, recurring disease caused by a person's inability to tolerate an environmental chemical or class of foreign chemicals" according to the NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences web site.
		Chemicals such as mercury can also cause organ failure, such as failure of the liver (which is involved in storing these chemicals) or the kidneys (involved in filtering them out).
		While many believe that chemical or mold exposure is central to the etiology of MCS, others believe that their symptoms, including sensitivity to smell, are a part of a larger picture such as severe migraine with aura or depression—both of which involve neurotransmitters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Multiple_chemical_sensitivity (2150 words)

	Multiple chemical sensitivity
		Multiple chemical sensitivity-also known as MCS syndrome, environmental illness, idiopathic environmental intolerance, chemical AIDS, total allergy syndrome, or simply MCS-is a disorder in which a person develops symptoms from exposure to chemicals in the environment.
		Multiple chemical sensitivity typically begins with one high-dose exposure to a chemical, but it may also develop with long-term exposure to a low level of a chemical.
		Multiple chemical sensitivity is a twentieth-century disorder, becoming more prevalent as more human-made chemicals are introduced into the environment in greater quantities.
	www.lifesteps.com /gm/Atoz/ency/multiple_chemical_sensitivity.jsp (1728 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
		By sensitivity we mean symptoms or signs as related to chemical exposures at levels tolerated by the population at large.
		Rea wrote that "at their onset, symptoms of chemical sensitivity are almost always reversible." This is a very positive statement; however, he added that when organ involvement increases, responses are more difficult to decipher and reverse.
		He wrote that the factors that are influencing the onset of chemical sensitivity are total body load, the nutritional state, and bioaccumulation of toxic substances, as well as other factors.
	www.drgrisanti.com /mcs.htm (2689 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Information on Healthline
		Multiple chemical sensitivity, also known as MCS syndrome or simply MCS, is a disorder in which a person develops symptoms from exposure to chemicals in the environment.
		Multiple chemical sensitivity typically begins with one high-dose exposure to a chemical, but it may also develop with long-term exposure to a low level of a chemical.
		Multiple chemical sensitivity is a twentieth-century disorder, becoming more prevalent as more man-made chemicals are introduced into the environment in greater quantities.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/multiple-chemical-sensitivity (822 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
		In one case I know, a teenage girl troubled by fatigue was diagnosed as sensitive to foods, chemicals, and electromagnetic fields by clinical ecologists whose tests, treatments, and recommended household modifications cost $100,000 during a one-year period.
		Staudenmayer H. Multiple chemical sensitivities or idiopathic environmental intolerances: Psychophysiologic foundation of knowledge for a psychogenic explanation.
		Olfaction and symptoms in the multiple chemical sensitivies syndrome.
	www.quackwatch.org /01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mcs.html (3216 words)

	MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY
		Multiple chemical sensitivities: a symposium on the state of the science.
		Symptoms, syndrome, and semantics: multiple chemical sensitivity and chronic fatigue syndrome.
		Multiple chemical sensitivity: treatment and follow-up with avoidance and control of chemical exposures.
	www.gulflink.osd.mil /nhrc_bib/mcs.html (429 words)

	MCS
		Most MCS sufferers trace their sensitivity to chemicals to a chemical exposure at a particular time in their life, often a single, high level exposure to organic solvents or to certain pesticides, notably organophosphates or carbamates.
		The symptoms exacerbated on chemical exposure are very similar to the chronic symptoms of CFS (1) and these may be explained by several known properties of nitric oxide, peroxynitrite and inflammatory cytokines, each of which have a role in the proposed mechanism.
		Pall M. (2002) NMDA sensitization and stimulation by peroxynitrite, nitric oxide and organic solvents as the mechanism of chemical sensitivity in multiple chemical sensitivity.
	www.mold-survivor.com /mcs.htm (2903 words)

	Chemical Sensitivity
		There are many other chemicals which are under investigation and the problem continues to grow because of the ever increasing production of organic chemicals.
		Multiple chemical sensitivity, or MCS, as it is sometimes referred to, is under debate in the medical community at this time.
		After the initial exposure, low levels of chemicals found in everyday materials such as soaps, detergents, cosmetics, and newspaper inks can trigger physical symptoms in persons with multiple chemical sensitivities.
	www.umm.edu /environ/chemical.htm (361 words)

	MCS. Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, Allergies,
		In 1990, the Chemical Manufacturers Association (now the American Chemistry Council) vowed to work to prevent the recognition of MCS out of concern for potential lost profits and increased liability if MCS were to become widely acknowledged (2).
		This contact can be one large chemical exposure such as a chemical spill or a pesticide application, or it can be a low-level, ongoing exposure such as one might experience in a workplace with poor ventilation combined with copy fumes, perfume, and chemical cleaners.
		After induction the person develops sensitivity to the chemical that was involved in the exposure and to other related chemicals.
	www.mcs-global.org (1849 words)

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		According to Cynthia Wilson of the Chemical Injury Information Network, as long ago as the 1950's physician's recognized that people were becoming sick due to their environment (http://www.ciin.org).
		Chemical sensitivity is more often than not characterized by real, verifiable damage to the body, though the implications of these anomalies are poorly understood and need additional research." (http://www.ciin.org).
		The criteria, in brief, require that symptoms are reproducible with repeated chemical exposure, the condition is chronic, symptoms result from low level exposure, symptoms improve or resolve when the irritant is removed, response occurs to multiple chemically unrelated substances and symptoms involve multiple organ systems.
	www.jan.wvu.edu /soar/mcs.html (632 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
		Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is an ailment, or a family of ailments, that has very real consequences for tens of millions of Americans.
		However, because MCS sufferers react to chemicals at levels that are hundreds or thousands of times lower than allowable occupational exposures, traditional toxicology dictates that their symptoms cannot be caused by chemical exposures.
		MCS is "initiated" by a high exposure (for example, a chemical fire, or spill) or by repeated moderate exposure to pesticides or solvents or some other strong chemical(s) such as those found in chemical dumps or used in remodeling homes or offices, including new carpeting.
	www.cqs.com /mcs.htm (1809 words)

	The Chemical Sensitivity Foundation - Welcome!
		The Chemical Sensitivity Foundation is working to encourage research to further validate the existence of multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS).
		We also believe that it is important to educate landlords about the effects that their pest-control or cleaning chemicals can have on the chemically sensitive.
		By raising public awareness that exposure to a chemical soup like that encountered near Ground Zero can cause long-term health problems, including sensitivity to everyday chemicals, we hope that in the future public officials will be less cavalier about the risks involved in exposure to toxic chemicals.
	www.chemicalsensitivityfoundation.org (594 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
		It could be that there are chemicals in any part of the house that are irritating him and the fresher outside air is responsible for the improvement.
		Sensitive people may be unable to tolerate the powerful chemicals in nail polish remover and the glues used with artificial nails.
		Sensitive people can react adversely to natural oils in perfumes, but the synthetic components appear to be the most damaging.
	www.feingold.org /PF/mcs.html (2426 words)

	IQAir - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
		Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is marked by multiple symptoms in multiple organ systems (usually the neurological, immune, respiratory, skin and/or musculoskeletal) that recur chronically in response to multiple chemical exposures.
		The removal of materials which generate chemical exposure is an essential part of creating a "sanctuary" relatively free from chemical emissions.
		Since chemicals are present in the air both in the form of gaseous molecules as well as particle-bound, only air cleaners which offer both particulate filtration and significant gas phase filters will be able to make a meaningful contribution to reducing background levels of chemicals in the air.
	www.iqair.com /EU/ENG/Applications/MCS.htm (1082 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Alters Lives
		Chemical pollutants in the home were controlled by elaborate filtration systems as well as nontoxic cleaning products.
		MCS is also known as chemical injury; chemical AIDS; chemophobia; ecologic illness; environmental disease; environmental sensitivity; immune dysregulation; total allergy syndrome; and 20th Century disease.
		They withdraw from activities with friends and family to eliminate chemical exposure, they limit travel, leave their job, stop using chemical compounds to clean the home, remove home furnishings, stop using fragrances, change their diet and the type of clothing they wear.
	www.immunesupport.com /library/showarticle.cfm/ID/6089/e/1/T/CFIDS_FM (1907 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
		Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is basically a subset of Environmental Illness (EI), which is caused by living in a toxic world.
		The chemicals that were synthesized after World War II (including, pesticides, synthetic fragrances, cleaning products, detergents, etc.) are mostly "petro-chemicals" (petroleum based) and are quite toxic to humans.
		There have been virtually no studies done on the majority of these chemicals to see how they affect humans - the industry just placed the chemicals in the environment with the assumption that they are "safe, till proven toxic", instead of the other way around.
	www.ourlittleplace.com /mcs.html (1421 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
		Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) -- A Disorder Triggered by Exposures to Chemicals in the Environment
		Because chemicals are everywhere in the environment, it's not possible to escape exposure.
		MCS is a disorder triggered by exposures to chemicals in the environment.
	www.crisny.org /not-for-profit/nycap/mcs.htm (2181 words)

	MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY
		Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is a condition in which persons become ill following exposure to certain chemicals encountered in everyday life.
		Often, a reaction intensifies insidiously--that is, one's reaction to a given chemical increases inconspicuously but with grave effects.
		Most recently, people with Multiple Sclerosis, Gulf War Syndrome, and Post Polio Syndrome had long intense battles with physicians to convince them that the incapacitation they experience is not "in their heads," or a manifestation of a "poor attitude."
	www.ilru.org /html/publications/readings_in_IL/MCS.html (1117 words)

	Savvy Patients - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
		Chemically less contaminated water may be used including spring, distilled, and charcoal-filtered water, but only in glass and steel containers.
		Chemically less contaminated food on a rotary diet should also be used to reduce load and keep the patient in the nonadaptive state.
		Recovering from this illness involves: cleaning up your environment, avoiding toxic chemicals as much as possible, eating as many organic foods as possible (almost all regular foods are loaded with pesticides), taking nutritional supplements, using "neutralizing" allergy shots, and many other things.
	www.savvypatients.com /mcs.htm (1882 words)

	Articles - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Enzyme Related Toxic Overdose
		There is an effort to attain global recognition of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and related illnesses as real and caused by pollution, not by the imagination of those suffering.
		It is time we move away from a psychological explanation of the cause of chemical intolerance and try to understand the rudimentary biochemistry behind the illness.
		Since MCS (Chemical Intolerance, Environmental Intolerance) is not an antibody mediated allergy, allergy specialists and others should acknowledge they do NOT understand the mechanism of the disorder and quit trying to discount it with a "psychogenic" canard.
	www.thenhf.com /articles_53.htm (744 words)

	WebMD Helps You Understand Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
		Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is the name given by some to a condition in which various symptoms reportedly appear after a person has been exposed to any of a wide range of chemicals.
		The exposure may occur as a major event, such as a chemical spill, or from long-term contact with low-levels of chemicals, such as in an office with poor ventilation.
		One theory suggests that chemicals traveling in the air enter the nose and affect an area of the brain called the limbic system.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/61/67473.htm (718 words)

	MCS Definition Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: A 1999 Consensus Archives of Environmental Health v.54, n.3 ...
		Consensus criteria for the definition of multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) were first identified in a 1989 multidisciplinary survey of 89 clinicians and researchers with extensive experience in, but widely differing views of, MCS.
		The millions of civilians and tens of thousands of Gulf War veterans who suffer from chemical sensitivity should not be kept waiting any longer for a standardized diagnosis while medical research continues to investigate the etiology of their signs and symptoms.
		Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Syndrome: Symptom Prevalence and Risk Factors in a Military Population.
	www.mindfully.org /Health/MCS-1999-Definition.htm (1149 words)

	Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
		This type of asthma works as follows: When certain chemicals (typically solvents and perfumes) are inhaled they bind to the neurons in the airways and produce inflammation, which leads to an asthma attack.
		Indeed, the scientific literature unquestionably shows that there are two groups of chemically sensitive sufferers: In group #1, there is a genuine sensitivity to -or intolerance of-- chemicals on a biological basis, which may lead to psychiatric problems if the limbic area of the brain is affected (in most cases it is).
		There may also be cases where the sufferer is reacting to chemicals on both a biological and psychogenic basis (i.e., subconsciously reacting due to a trauma, but also due to biological mechanisms).
	www.ecolivingcenter.com /articles/mcs.html (4793 words)

	A Small Dose Of... Toxicology
		Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - MCS Referral and Resources.
		Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association, The Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association (SOCMA) is the leading trade association serving the specialty-batch and custom chemical industry since 1921.(accessed: 5 February 2005).
		Peter Evans, "Studies of the Prevalence of Chemical Sensitivity and MCS," MCS Referral and Resources, (4 February 2005).
	www.asmalldoseof.org /toxicology/multip.chem.sensitve.php (272 words)

	RIDE Advocacy Project - who we are
		To find out about their transportation needs, RAP conducted a survey of people with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) and other extreme sensitivity to chemicals who live in the Boston area.
		If you live in the Boston area and have multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) or another medical condition that causes you to be extremely sensitive to chemicals, RAP would like to hear from you.
		Among the arguments we presented: (1) noncompliance of the T with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and (2) the hardship of a fare increase for people with disabilities, who are among those with the lowest incomes in the nation.
	www.rideadvocacy.org (903 words)

	Multiple chemical sensitivity Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine - Find Articles
		Multiple chemical sensitivity--also known as MCS syndrome, environmental illness, or simply MCS--is a disorder in which a person develops symptoms from exposure to chemicals in the environment.
		In a 1992 position statement that remained unchanged as of early 2000, the American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs did not recognize MCS as a clinical condition due to a lack of accepted diagnostic criteria and controlled studies on the disorder.
		In many cases, it may be recommended that an individual turn one room in his or her home, usually the bedroom, into an environmentally safe haven by removing all chemical sources and furnishing it with 100% natural materials.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2603/is_0005/ai_2603000535 (937 words)

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