If the doctors can not agree on how a disease is diagnosed
means not equal, that they do not exist. Especially in environmental diseases of the modern conventional medicine is sometimes missing from the statistical key figures. For example, chemical sensitivity, MCS shortly.
MCS stands for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. The talk is of a chronic disease with severe allergies, caused for example by perfumes, cigarette smoke, solvents or fumes. Ralf Holt, building biologist and board member at Biolysa eV, "Not even smelling or is slow outgassing materials from all possible products are among the most widespread causes of MCS. The affected people are already suffering the lowest concentrations, in which healthy people usually show no reaction. "There are also connections to SBS (Sick Building Syndrome =" Sick House Syndrome "), continues Holt. "When SBS people suffering from the outgassing of building materials and furnishing materials. And in newly constructed or renovated buildings. "However, this problem was solved quite simply by the materials to be replaced.
MCS, said Uwe Dippold, building biologist and chairman of Biolysa eV, is accepted in the United States since 1992 and in Germany in general since 1996 as a disability. "Several U.S. studies estimate that in the general population is now 15-30% of people are chemically intolerant mild to moderate."
symptoms of MCS, so Dippold are a variety of nonspecific problems including fatigue, headache, fatigue, impaired concentration, burning eyes, loss of memory, dizziness, skin and respiratory problems, musculoskeletal problems, on the gastrointestinal tract, of skin and mucous membranes. Frequently, an electrical sensitivity was related thereto. Dippold. "There are yet no scientifically proven cause-concept" chemical sensitivity may therefore high by a single be caused by concentration or chronic intake of chemicals in low doses.
as initial trigger of the disease are mainly pesticides, solvents, drugs (eg chemotherapy), known as isocyanates (tools of paint and coatings industry) and formaldehyde. MCS occurred, Holt, suffer more frequently in people with chronic diseases additional to, for example, already has asthma, allergies, mental disorders or depression. Frequently affected occupations include painters, chemical workers, nurses, doctors, farmers and construction workers. Women are generally more affected than men.
Everyday life brings the problems already with it: Often, patients with normal stress chemicals are not tolerated. Fragrances in perfumes, soaps and aftershaves, the exhalations of furniture and other furnishings or disinfectant in medical practices and hospitals to make life difficult for the patient. This chronic disease leads, so Holt, to conflicts in the family, friends and at work.
What to do? "In the diagnosis of environmental medicine environmental histories or by building biologists living room's history and indoor air pollution measurements of help in the home," advises the expert Ralf Holt.
The experts recommend for prevention of Biolysa and avoidance of some practical help MCS: Air comes first, possibly through a ventilation system. It should also worried people avoid chemical-based products such as paints, varnishes, solvents, stain and polish remover, cleaning agents, glues or insecticides. The same is true for special fragrance oils. Filters of air conditioners or air and water filters in the house were more likely than usual to go.
Holt: "Find out exactly what the ingredients for the purchase of furniture or clothing, new car or building a house. And of course, new textiles to always wash before, but often biocides and other chemical substances such as plasticizers, optical brighteners containing or perfumes. "At the personal care he himself would rather use natural cosmetics with the BDIH characters. In a suspected indoor toxins one could immediately turn on the final building biologists.
More information and studies in the area under Münsterland www.baubiologie-holtrup.de
or www.biolysa.de
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More information for patients:
German Agency MCS: www.dgmcs.de/
Department of Environmental Disease: www.spezialklinik-neukirchen.de
