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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
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
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
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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