Wiggle Room and Multiple Chemical Sensitivites!

[Guest guest]

Greetings Listers: After reading about Diane's problems with mold and

moisture and fire starter, I thought I'd take a look at what is on the

net with this issue. So here goes.....

http://www.monitor.net/rachel/r464.html This the first site for

's Environment & Health Weekly.

[Excerpt]

CIGARETTE SCIENCE AT JOHNS HOPKINS

As the scientific evidence piles up, linking chemical exposures to

serious human diseases, many chemical-dependent industries, such as

pesticide purveyors, are searching for a strategy to buy themselves some

time, to put off the inevitable.

Upon doing a keyword search living with MCS the following articles where

listed to my response. See Below:

Documents found by matching keyword prefixes:

86% #464 (10/19/95): Cigarette Science [Multiple Chemical Sensitivity]

(summary)

82% #391 (05/26/94): Dioxin Reassessed, Part 2 (summary)

72% #246 (08/14/91): Dismantling Our Life-Support Systems [ozone loss]

(summary)

72% #553 (07/03/97): Let's Stop Wasting Time (summary)

70% #544 (05/01/97): Statement on Immune Toxins (summary)

70% #505 (08/01/96): The 8th IJC Report [chemical regulation] (summary)

70% #374 (01/27/94): Asthma: Prevention is the Cure (summary)

70% #457 (08/31/95): Dioxin Inquisition (summary)

70% #369 (12/23/93): Superfund Dumps & Health, Part 1 (summary)

68% #234 (05/22/91): Chemicals Have Contaminated The Entire Planet

(summary)

68% #575 (12/04/97): The Truth About Breast Cancer--Conclusion (summary)

68% #435 (03/30/95): The End of Regulation? [risk assessment] (summary)

68% #412 (10/20/94): A Turnabout on Cancer Policy? (summary)

62% #533 (02/13/97): How They Lie, Pt. 6 The Alar Story, Pt. 4 (summary)

Amazon.com lists the following books:

Allergic to the Twentieth Century : The Explosion in Environmental

Allergies--From Sick Buildings to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

by Radetsky, Bill (Editor)

Chemical Exposures : Low Levels and High Stakes;

A. Ashford, S.

An Alternative Approach to Allergies : The New Field of Clinical Ecology

Unravels the Environmental Causes of Mental and Physical Ills;

Theron G.Randolph, Ralph W. Moss

Is This Your Child's World? : How You Can Fix the Schools and Homes That

Are Making Your Children Sick;

Doris J. Rapp

A brief description of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity as given by gerald

Ross of the Environmental Health Centre in Dallas describes multiple

chemical sensitivity, or MCS: " Think of a patient as a rain barrel.

The water in the barrel is the total load of environmental pollutants

that the body must cope with. Then along comes some other source of

stress. But the barrel can't hold it, and it pours out. The overflow

represents a health problem ... and you get sick. "

The consequences of the sickness are severe; lives are radically and

sometimes permanently disrupted. And the solutions to 20th-century

allergies are painstaking and expensive. Worse, some physicians and

psychiatrists say that MCS is all in people's heads, and that these

people are being abetted by overzealous scientists who ignore basic

scientific principles. You don't have to agree with one side or the

other to find the assertions in Allergic to the Twentieth Century

compelling, though; in fact, it may go down better if you start it

without any preconceived notions.

in my search this morning i have come across a very interesting

discussion that deals with of all things going to university, the

American Disabilities Act and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, plus some

other issues. For an interesting read go to:

http://www.janejarrow.com/study/dsshetopics/ada & reshallreq.html

http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/envir.html This is a monster site

that deals with Environmental Health Care Information Resources...for

patients, their families, friends and health care workers.

Next we have:http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/4415/index.html

The Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Primer -- Where to start looking for

information about MCS.

A Canary for Out Times: Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities.

http://www.achilles.net/~hburke/mcs.html

Making Sense of Scents --

http://users.lanminds.com/~wilworks/ehnmsofs.htm

[Excerpt from Site]

Postal information -- This little sections talks about postal

regulations and those perfume strips that come in magazines in the mail.

" Perfumes are increasingly used in an ever wider variety of fields,

including perfumes proper, cosmetic products, hygienic products, drugs,

detergents and other household products, plastics, industrial greases,

oils and solvents, foods, etc. Their composition is usually complex - it

involves numerous natural and synthetic sweet-smelling constituents,

more than 5,000 of which are known.

Also, A Must read at this site:-

Fabric Softeners = Health Risks From Dryer Exhaust and Treated Fabrics

Twenty Most Common Chemicals Found in Thirty-One Fragrance Products.

Other issues

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/6847/index.html

From the Allergy and Environmental Health Association, here they talk

about sensitivity to Natural Gas that is used to heat our homes, cook

our food. A very interesting read.

Food Allergies, Food Sensitivities and Environmental Illness.

http://www.wildoats.com/know/foodallergies.html

This Site comes from The Hoosier Environmental Council.

http://host.envirolink.org/hecweb/archive/pestfile/pesticide.htm

This 100+ article site deals with all kinds of chemicals that Man and

Society uses and talks about how it is affecting us. A very interesting

scan on future life. The one that I read dealt with Bananas: Safe and

Healthy?

And What Does the Future Hold?

http://www.innovations.org/content/env/enviro.html This site deals with

Taming the Toxic World.

I hope I haven't overloaded everyone

Blessings' & Peace

D.