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Numerous Chemical Sensitivity 

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abdul wahab

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) no longer is definitely an enigma in our society. Unfortunately, more and more folks have it in some form or another as much in the health care industry are accepting it as a concrete diagnosis. What is it? MCS is defined as a multi-system disorder usually due to toxic contact with a chemical or chemicals. The exposure can be acute, i.e. a wide range of a toxin over a short period (hours to days) or it can be long-term, a low-level exposure over an amount of weeks, months or years.


A typical example of an acute exposure is really a chemical spill and a typical example of a long-term exposure is really a person residing in a home that has been tented to kill termites and gets progressively sick.


MCS within the longterm depletes an individual's nutritional stores and causes problems in a variety of systems and organs in the body. Hence the word multi-system disorder. Anyone becomes sensitized to the specific chemical. With repeated exposure, the sensitivity increases.


Also, there's what is called a spreading effect where the individual is bothered by many more different chemicals. As this happens, more body systems become involved. MCS typically effects the Central Nervous System.


According to the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) the diagnosis, treatment, and etiologic assessment of MCS had remained a problematic medical and social concern for individuals, physicians, government and organizations. Also, in line with the ACOEM, the condition was described in 1952 and has since amassed over 20 different names, including "environmental illness", "total allergy syndrome", "20th Century disease" and "Chemical Aids" ;.Our favorite is 20th Century disease.


Within my mind, this name is wholly appropriate since our society's quest to preserve from food to building materials has created this mess.


ACEOM recognizes that there surely is a lack of scientific research about MCS. However, they support tentative conclusions about MCS. These conclusions are: 1) that there's no immunologic basis for MCS. 2) that there's an overlap between MCS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia and other historic non-specific condition.


A write-up by Japanese physicians from the University of Tokyo School of Medicine is pretty much in agreement with the statement of the ACOEM. Baisky AJ,Borus from the Division of Psychiatry at Birgham and Womens Hospital in Boston Massachusetts in Kemikalie butik articles titled Functional Somatic Syndrome which can be another means of saying MCS states that even though physical causes may ultimately be present in patients with MCS, the suffering of these patients is exacerbated by a home perpetuating, self-validating cycle in which common endemic, somatic symptoms are incorrectly attributed to serious abnormality reinforcing the persons belief that he or she includes a serious illness. Put simply, although there might be just medical reason for this problem, much of the symptoms are psychological. I am in total disagreement with this specific statement as I think and will try to prove to all or any that MCS is a hazardous a reaction to chemicals that produces abnormal physiological function in the body.


In 1999, consensus criteria for the definition of MCS were formulated because even though there remains deficiencies in objective physical evidence that support the diagnosis of MCS, government studies in the U.S., U.K. and Canada revealed 2-4 times as many cases of chemical sensitivity among Gulf War Veterans than soldiers who weren't deployed to the region.


Also, state health department surveys of civilians in New Mexico and California revealed that 2-6% respectively, have been identified as having MCS and that 16% of civilians reported and "unusual sensitivity to common everyday chemicals. Those criteria.

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