Comments on: Research shows toxic chemicals initiate Multiple Chemical Sensitivity http://www.thecanaryreport.org/2009/07/18/research-shows-toxic-chemicals-initiate-multiple-chemical-sensitivity/ A blog and social network about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:46:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Susie Collins http://www.thecanaryreport.org/2009/07/18/research-shows-toxic-chemicals-initiate-multiple-chemical-sensitivity/comment-page-1/#comment-5127 Susie Collins Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:30:11 +0000 http://www.thecanaryreport.org/?p=6563#comment-5127 Aloha Chris and welcome to The Canary Report. Thanks for leaving your thoughts on this topic. Very interesting comment about sensitivities in people who work in special FX. (I love your website, by the way, how cool is your work? WOW. I love the R2D2/mailbox installation!) You're right about the past study. It was conducted by psychiatrists and the chemical industry has been very clever at exploiting the "findings." Psychiatrists NEVER had any business whatsoever looking at this illness, which is so obviously the result of toxic chemical injury. It's absolutely incredible that toxicologists are now taking a look! Once Martin Pall's findings are published in the upcoming <i>General and Applied Toxicology, 3rd Edition </i>, I think perspectives will shift more and more toward full recognition of MCS as toxicological in origin. The trends are with us in other areas as well-- safe food, safe consumer goods, keeping babies safe-- it's all on people's radar now. Study after study is showing health impacts of ubiquitous toxic chemicals. It's getting harder and harder to paint people with MCS as "nuts." Aloha Chris and welcome to The Canary Report. Thanks for leaving your thoughts on this topic. Very interesting comment about sensitivities in people who work in special FX. (I love your website, by the way, how cool is your work? WOW. I love the R2D2/mailbox installation!) You’re right about the past study. It was conducted by psychiatrists and the chemical industry has been very clever at exploiting the “findings.” Psychiatrists NEVER had any business whatsoever looking at this illness, which is so obviously the result of toxic chemical injury. It’s absolutely incredible that toxicologists are now taking a look! Once Martin Pall’s findings are published in the upcoming General and Applied Toxicology, 3rd Edition , I think perspectives will shift more and more toward full recognition of MCS as toxicological in origin. The trends are with us in other areas as well– safe food, safe consumer goods, keeping babies safe– it’s all on people’s radar now. Study after study is showing health impacts of ubiquitous toxic chemicals. It’s getting harder and harder to paint people with MCS as “nuts.”

]]> By: Christopher Hillman http://www.thecanaryreport.org/2009/07/18/research-shows-toxic-chemicals-initiate-multiple-chemical-sensitivity/comment-page-1/#comment-5115 Christopher Hillman Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:57:22 +0000 http://www.thecanaryreport.org/?p=6563#comment-5115 I've been surprised for a long time that anybody ever thought that MCS could only (or even 'primarily') be psychological. I've had a couple big bouts of it in the last decade because of overexposure to industrial-chemicals and basically anybody I talked to in the Special-Effects field all knew that exposure to chemicals made you more sensitive to others. Artists working closely with Urethanes / Silicones / Latex deal with the problems all the time. I Have noticed that doctors seem to have been the last to catch-up though ..jumping wayY out to a quick possible diagnosis of anxiety or panic attack etc. showing that they weren't even really listening to the symptoms ..I've always thought it must've been a past study with some reaLLY biased conclusions of some sort ..nowadays I'm thinking it's the study that this paper might help rescue us from. Chris I’ve been surprised for a long time that anybody ever thought that MCS could only (or even ‘primarily’) be psychological.
I’ve had a couple big bouts of it in the last decade because of overexposure to industrial-chemicals and basically anybody I talked to in the Special-Effects field all knew that exposure to chemicals made you more sensitive to others.

Artists working closely with Urethanes / Silicones / Latex deal with the problems all the time.

I Have noticed that doctors seem to have been the last to catch-up though ..jumping wayY out to a quick possible diagnosis of anxiety or panic attack etc. showing that they weren’t even really listening to the symptoms ..I’ve always thought it must’ve been a past study with some reaLLY biased conclusions of some sort ..nowadays I’m thinking it’s the study that this paper might help rescue us from.

Chris

]]> By: linda http://www.thecanaryreport.org/2009/07/18/research-shows-toxic-chemicals-initiate-multiple-chemical-sensitivity/comment-page-1/#comment-4869 linda Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:55:59 +0000 http://www.thecanaryreport.org/?p=6563#comment-4869 YAY! Thank you Martin Pall, and thank you Susie! YAY!

Thank you Martin Pall, and thank you Susie!

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