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Article: Chemical sensitivity attributed to pesticide exposure versus remodeling.
- Article from:
- Archives of Environmental Health
- Article date:
- March 1, 1995
- Author:
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MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY (MCS), the subject of an escalating debate among physicians and environmental specialists, is being diagnosed in a growing number of patients, including industrial workers; occupants of sick buildings; individuals who live near Superfund hazardous waste sites; Gulf War veterans; and others exposed to pesticides, solvents, combustion products, drugs, and consumer products. Some practitioners believe that MCS is a somatoform disorder or, at a minimum, that patients misattribute symptoms from a variety of medical conditions to environmental exposures.[1-4] Others hypothesize that environmental exposures may sensitize certain - perhaps more ...