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Article: Multiple-chemical sensitivity.
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- MedSurg Nursing
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Multiple-chemical sensitivity (MCS), a condition that affects more and more people, has been a subject of discussion in the medical field since the early 1950s. According to Zwillinger (1998), people have been reporting MCS symptoms on an increasing are for the last 50 years. The increase in symptom reporting has been attributed to the fact that the manufacture of synthetic organic chemicals increased from less than 10 billion pounds per year in 1940 to more than 350 billion pounds annually in 1980 (Zwillinger, 1998). MCS can produce a wide range of symptoms, sometimes causing the affected individual to encounter great difficulty functioning in normal working and living ...