Article: Symptoms, syndrome, and semantics: multiple chemical sensitivity and chronic fatigue syndrome. (Editorial)

Article: Chemical sensitivity attributed to pesticide exposure versus remodeling.
Archives of Environmental Health;  March 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......inhalants and ingestants.[5-7] Many MCS patients report lifelong symptoms that appear...remodeling of a building (RE). Compared with MCS patients with lifelong symptoms, these individuals...authors felt that these two subgroups of MCS patients would be better able to distinguish...

Article: Self-reported illness from chemical odors in young adults without clinical syndromes or occupational exposures.
Archives of Environmental Health;  January 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......stuffiness.[1-3,6] Clinically, many MCS patients also report multiple food sensitivities...rates of depression and somatization in MCS patients than in normal controls,[3,4,7,8,9...fashion in either direction.[10,11] Some MCS patients are highly educated individuals, among...

Article: Patients with multiple chemical sensitivities in an occupational health clinic: presentation and follow-up.
Archives of Environmental Health;  November 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......one case series included only MCS patients who had no prior psychiatric history...rhinolaryngoscopic examinations on 10 MCS patients; all of the examinations revealed abnormalities. In another study, MCS patients had significantly higher nasal...

Article: Perioperative care of environmentally sensitive patients.
AORN Journal;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......medical conditions have been attributed to MCS patients (Figure 1). It has been postulated...7) The literature revealed that most MCS patients who had low exposures to chemicals experienced...patients.(8) The literature noted that some MCS patients had experienced bronchospasm with ...

Article: Possible time-dependent sensitization to xenobiotics: self-reported illness from chemical odors, foods, and opiate drugs in an older adult population.
Archives of Environmental Health;  September 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ......symptom that all individuals, including MCS patients, who claim to become ill from chemical...that may overlap patterns reported in MCS patients, without the confounds of radical lifestyle...some investigators have found that MCS patients have an increased rate of previous or...

Article: Time-dependent sensitization of heart rate and blood pressure over multiple laboratory sessions in elderly individuals with chemical odor intolerance.
Archives of Environmental Health;  January 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......medical problems that overlapped those of MCS patients,[8,12,13] increased trait shyness,[10...commonly reported by CI individuals and MCS patients[8]). Notably, the results of animal...preclinical CI individuals.[12,13,40-43] In MCS patients who were prescreened to minimize those...

Article: Immune factors in MCS.(Shorts)
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients;  February 1, 2004 ;     217 words ......particularly responsive to chemical exposure; 64% of 111 MCS patients showed elevated chemical antibodies. The control subjects...quickly--within one to two days after chemical exposure--in MCS patients. IgM and IgG antibodies take longer to respond--about two...

Article: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine;      700+ words ......diagnose, estimates vary as to what percentage of the population develops MCS. However, most MCS patients are female. The median age of MCS patients is 40 years old, and most experienced symptoms before they were 30 years old. There is also...

Article: The Role of the Brain and Mast Cells in MCS.
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......approach to objective testing for MCS. Mast Cell Disorder and MCS Patients with mastocytosis can be exquisitely sensitive to even small...concept was recently published. [3] Limbic Hypermetabolism and MCS Patients with MCS often show emotional instability during their reactions...

Article: MCS and SPECT Scans.
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients;  January 1, 2001 ;     276 words ......found in MCS, especially extreme fatigue and mental dysfunctions, are also symptoms of CFS. According to the SPECT scans, the MCS patients showed less global perfusion (i.e. an overall measure of brain circulation) than the normal controls. CFS patients' global...

Article: Nasal function in self-reported chemically intolerant individuals.
Archives of Environmental Health;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......and (5) reactions appear subsequent to multiple exposures to chemically unrelated compounds. According to the reports of MCS patients, affected organ systems are the central nervous system, mucous membranes of the eyes, upper and lower respiratory tract...

Article: The Nose Knows -- Or Does It? Questioning Our Sense of Smell.
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......sense of smell. What I have learned raised many interesting questions about the alleged hypersensitive sense of smell that MCS patients exhibit. In this essay, I wish to share most of what I learned and the many yet unanswered questions I have found. Realize...

Article: Innate healing enhancement in anxiety disorders and MCS.(Quantum Medicine Update)(Multiple Chemical Sensitivity)
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......pesticides, plastics and toxins with positive ionization causing alarming increases in MCS, allergic and anxiety disorders. Many MCS patients have instant panic attacks within seconds after an exposure to solvents. As one would expect, disorders of this nature involve...

Article: Elevated nitric oxide/peroxynitrite theory of multiple chemical sensitivity: central role of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in the sensitivity mechanism.(Research)
Environmental Health Perspectives;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......mechanism by which such progressive sensitization may occur. The symptoms reported to be induced by chemical exposure in MCS patients are similar to those characteristic of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), but no plausible mechanism has been proposed as to...