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Telling
a person with MCS that there is "only a little fragrance" is
like telling someone in a wheel chair that "there are only a few
steps."
Any
barrier that prevents access - or precludes the ability to choose to access
- is a barrier.
Forcibly
exposing a chemically sensitive person to the fragrances and chemicals
they are reactive to is no different than physically assaulting them.
Chemical sensitivities
is also known as multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS), chemical injury
or illness (CI) and environmental illness (EI).
"...Agents whose
exposures are associated with symptoms and suspected of causing onset
of chemical sensitivity with chronic illness include gasoline, kerosene,
natural gas, pesticides (especially chlordane and chlorpyrifos), solvents,
new carpet and other renovation materials, adhesives/glues, fiberglass,
carbonless copy paper, fabric softener, formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde,
carpet shampoos (lauryl sulfate) and other cleaning agents, isocyanates,
combustion products (poorly vented gas heaters, overheated batteries),
and medications (dinitrochlorobenzene for warts, intranasally packed neosynephrine,
prolonged antibiotics, and general anesthesia with petrochemicals). Multiple
mechanisms of chemical injury that magnify response to exposures in chemically
sensitive patients can include neurogenic inflammation (respiratory, gastrointestinal,
genitourinary), kindling and time-dependent sensitization (neurologic),
impaired porphyrin metabolism (multiple organs), and immune activation.
"
From the abstract
of Profile
of Patients with Chemical Injury and Sensitivity, Environmental
Health Perspectives, 1997, volume 105 (Suppl 2), pages 417-436. Based
on a paper presented at the Conference on Experimental Approaches to Chemical
Sensitivity held 20-22 September 1995 in Princeton, New Jersey. Grace
Ziem MD, Baltimore MD.
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Page
Index:
Anesthesia and Surgery
Cosmetics
and Personal Care Products
Fragrances and Health
Latex and Vinyl Allergy
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Occupational and Environmental Illness
Sick Building Syndrome
Federal Agencies on MCS/SBS
Additional Information
MCS & Travel
Housing
and Healthy Building Resources
In
the News
May
2003: Wife Arrested in Aroma Assault
Cosmetics
and Personal Care Products
Cosmetic
Labeling
Cosmetic Products
and Ingredients
Products Generally Tolerated by Most Persons with
MCS
Skin Deep Integrated Cosmetics
Database
Fragrances
and Health
Chemicals in Air Fresheners May Reduce Lung
Function
Dying For That New Car Smell?
Essential Oils
Fragrances and Health
Fragranced Products Information Network
(FPIN)
Is A Fragrance Free
Workplace Right For You?
Is Your Workplace Fragrance-Free?
Smelling Good May Cost Too Much
The
following organizations may be useful in finding out more about how to
convert your workplace to fragrance free:
Chemical
Injury Network (CIIN)
Human Ecology Action
League (HEAL)
MCS Referral & Resources (MCSRR)
National Safety Council
Latex
Allergy Articles and Resources
Allergies
To Rubber Affect 12.5 Percent Of Health Care Workers
Every Office Urged to Prevent Latex Allergy
Latex-Safe Emergency Cart Products List
MEDLINEplus
Latex Allergy
Perioperative
Management of the Latex-Allergic Patient
Not
Necessarily Latex
Vinyl
Health Without Harm
ComingClean.org:
Phthalates
Phthalates:
Your Soap May Be Hurting You
Common
Pollutant Undermine Masculinity
National Toxicology Program Confirms Health Care
Without Harm's Assertions About Vinyl Medical Products
MCS
Chemical Sensitivity: It's a serious problem more
often than you think
Chemical
Sensitivity in Patients with Fibromyalgia
Chemical
Susceptibility, Injury, And Reactivity: Mechanisms and Measurement
Defining Multiple Chemical
Sensitivity
Disrupting the Truth
Environmental
Control Plan for Chemically Sensitive Patients (G. Ziem MD)
Management of Chemical Sensitivities in CFIDS
MCS:
Center for Emergent Disability
MCS: Journal Abstracts
MCS:
Potential Role for Neural Sensitization
MCS: What it is, what it is not and how it is
manifested
Mold
Neuropsychological
Approaches for the Detection and Evaluation of Toxic Symptoms
Pesticide
Exposures: Symptoms, First Aid, Evidence, Legal
Potential Biomarker Found For MCS
Profile
of Patients with Chemical Injury and Sensitivity
Sensitization as a mechanism for multiple chemical
sensitivity
Testing the Neural Sensitization
and Kindling Hypothesis for Illness from Low Levels of Environmental Chemicals
Toxicant-induced Loss
of Tolerance--An Emerging Theory of Disease?
Under Seige
Occupational
& Environmental Illness
Carbonless Copy Paper: A Major Cause of Work-Related
Illness
Clinical and Immunological Responses in Subjects
Sensitive to Solvents
Companies
Dump Toxic Goods on U.S. Consumers
Disrupting the Truth
Environmental Health Perspectives
Heart Rate Variability Associated with Particulate
Air Pollution
Household Products Database
Indoor Air Pollution:
A Guide for Health Professionals
Pesticide
Exposures: Symptoms, First Aid, Evidence, Legal
Proposed EPA Air Pollution Index Sends Mixed Message
About Health Hazards
Study: Tiny Components of SoCal Haze Invade
Human Cells
The Indoor Air We Breathe: Health Problem
of the 90s (PDF)
Trade Secrets
Wheezing at Work
Woodburning
Burning
Wood is a Stinky Idea
Why
is Woodburning an Air Pollution Problem?
Wood Burners Could Be Banned (Sebastopol CA)
County
limits new rural fireplaces
NOTICE:
Bay Area Air Quality Management District is holding public
hearings and workshops throughout the region for changes to the regulations
regarding wood burning devices. You can attend in person, or send your
comments in writing. Visit
the BAAQMD site for information on dates and locations, report draft,
etc., for November 7-26, 2007
Sick
Building Syndrome
Remember: schools and homes are buildings, too
A Question of Access...
Aerias.org
Are You a Victim of Sick Building Syndrome?
California Indoor Air Quality
Program Infosheets
Chemical Translations
Chronic
Neurotoxins: A Primer in Sick Building Syndrome
Companies
Dump Toxic Goods on U.S. Consumers
EPA: Healthy Buildings,
Health People, 21st Century
Housework Could Be Making Women Sick
Is
your office killing you?
Mold
No
Breathing in the Aisles: School Bus Exhaust
On the Carpet
Sick Building Syndrome: It's not the building
that gets sick
Sick Building Syndrome: Victims of mysterial illness
suffer from public ignorance
Source of Sick Buildings
Toxic Carpeting
Toxins in Burning Candles, Candle Wicks, and Incense
Federal
Agencies on MCS and SBS
A Report
on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry
CDC National Report
on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals
Crabby Kathy
EPA Indoor Air Quality Publications
At home, school, and work
MCS: A 1999 Consensus
MCS: Addendum
to Biological Markers in Immunotoxicology
NIH Environmental Toxicology
Program
Additional
Information
American Bar Association
Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law
Chemical Body Burden (Come-Clean.org)
Chemical Injury Awareness Ribbon
Chemical Injury Information Network
Chemicals
That Can Cause Reactions
Chemical Translations
Dept of Justice/ADA Ruling on MCS-Related
Cases
East Bay Pesticide Alert
Environmental Health Center (W. Rea
MD)
Environmental
Health Network
Global Recognition Campaign for Multiple
Chemical Sensitivity (Great
MCS brochure & signs)
Health
and Environment Resource Center (HERC)
ImmuneWeb.org
Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
Mary's MCS Help
Site
MCS Survivors
National Coalition for the Chemically
Injured
State Codes Related To Wearing Masks
Testing Labs
Organizations for
MCS
MCS
& Travel
Remember that natural
and green do not necessarily mean fragrance free, so be
sure to ask questions before making reservations.
The
Safer Directory
Green Hotels Association
Atlanta HEAL.org's Travel
Housing
& Healthy Building Information
Building Materials
Chemical-Illnet
Message Board
Creating
an Environmentally-Friendly Building
EcoBuilding
Resources
EcoChoices.com
EcoHome Building
EPA Environmentally
Preferable Purchasing
Healthy Housing Coalition
Housing Resources for MCS
Housing (CIIN)
Natural Home Products
Natural Pest Control
Environmental Scorecard
Tad Taylor's Healthy Homes
Judy Sanderson, a chemically
sensitive biology teacher at Culver High School (Culver City CA), reported
having been the victim of "fragrance assaults" by some of her
students on more than 90 occasions from 1993-1997. In November 1997, she
won some precedent-setting accommodations after a collective bargaining
agreement was issued by arbitrator, Ronald Hoh (California State Mediation
and Conciliation Service Case # 96-3-740). In this landmark decision,
student pranksters caught dousing the teacher or her classroom with fragrance-based
products will be punished as they would be for any other physical assault
on an instructor. Further, the school was directed to install oscillating
surveillance cameras both inside and outside of Ms. Sanderson's classroom
to deter students from engaging in further assaults. - Irene Wilkenfeld,
Safe Schools.
Look for additional
information at Pubmed, MEDLINEplus,
Medscape, Scirus,
and Findarticles.
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