[pure-silver] Re: was attire, now MCS

I'm "intimately" familiar with MCS, even if mine is very specific: Any cyclic terpenols! That doesn't seem too bad, until you find out how common they are, and how many people douse themselves in liberal doses of them on a regular basis: Perfume.

When I found out what I was reacting to I was a student, and traced my odd symptoms to a lab at the opposite end of a 180m long building. We (the student working on these compounds and myself) then embarked on a brief series of experiments, and found that I could identify trace quantities in sealed glass tubes by the symptoms only!

Ole Tjugen

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:45:22 +0200, John Bower <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What he is talking about is Multiple Chemical Sensitivity or MCS. I've
written several books dealing with it (e.g. The Healthy House). People
with MCS can have sensitivities to a wide variety of "everyday"
chemicals (e.g. perfume, household cleaners, vehicle exhaust, carpet
odor, fresh paint), and the original trigger of their sensitivities can
be quite varied (a single strong exposure to some chemical, long-term
low-level exposure to a pollutant, a severe viral infection, hormonal
changes, etc.). The symptoms can sometime seem bizarre to unaffected
individuals (virtually any symptom imaginable is possible, both physical
and psychological), and the symptoms can result from exposures that are
no problem for unaffected individuals. It can radically change a
person's life. I've spoken to many, many people with MCS and none of
them were born with the condition. Some of them are amazing in that they
react to environmental pollutants that are far, far below "safe"
industrial guidelines, sometime they react to levels that are difficult
to measure. There is a lot of information on the web about MCS.
John Bower


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Ole Tjugen

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