Even though Germany recognizes Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and has coded it for doctors billing with T78.4 in the ICD-10GM, there is another emergency case who cannot find adequate help.
I just received this urgent message from my friend Silvia Mueller at Chemical Sensitivity Network about a woman in Germany with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity who is in dire need of help:
44 year old Geli H. from Essen (Ruhr region) suffers from severe MCS. Since weeks she and her husband are desperately seeking for medical aid. He was allowed to take off to care for his wife. Geli’s food intolerance left her one food, everything else causes a dangerous shut of her throat. She’s hit by vertigo, choking fit, heavy headache, gastric spasms. Inside her mouth it looks like raw flesh. Even if she ate a tiny little bit, all her body may turn red and she gets no air. An air purifier runs all day and night. After some few sips of water, she collapses. Without competent help, she faces death. Because of her reactions to chemicals, she should not leave the house. In her despair she tried to get help in a local clinic. At the entrance she got already exposed to disinfectants fumes, perfumes, scents from inside and cigarette smoke from patients smoking at the entry. Heavy reactions of her body urged her husband to bring her back home.
They asked several clinics all over Germany. The last spark of hope, a near by anthroposophic clinic in Witten-Herdecke, was fully booked. Other declared not to be in charge for such cases. Doctors didn’t make it better. One environmental medicine doctor told, he cannot help because there is no environmental clinic near to her. Another recommended a hotline in Berlin that works only twice a week. There seems to be no need for emergency help in Germany.
One doctor topped it all with the well known psychosomatic theory of MCS. He recommended a university hospital. Geli has pathological blood results and immune system is down and this doctor recommends psychotherapy where she has to get used to substances which ruined her body. Is there no way to sue such doctors?
Geli is in grave danger. She even might not survive a flight to Environmental Health Center in Dallas. She quickly needs a special hypoallergenic nutritional infusions. It only takes a doctor with a approbation for environmental medicine for diagnosis. A willing general practitioner could apply the IV’s at her home.
If you read this in the UK, please remember Sophia who died in 2005 in a mental hospital because doctors refused to accept the organic nature of ME/CFS. Is that the cure for all environmentally diseased cases?
Sophie’s story on YouTube:
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