Here are some websites and pages about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and related topics I’ve been reviewing this week.
Surgery at Christiana Care Center for Advanced Joint Replacement, Delaware. Would this room be safe for someone with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity?
At the Artists with MCS website, now inactive but full of good MCS info, I took another look at the hospital protocol guidelines for MCS patients.
Here is Dr. Grace Ziem’s Environmental Control Plan for Chemically Sensitive Patients. Excellent. Here’s Dr. Ziem’s website, I recommend you familiarize yourself with everything she has to say about chemical sensitivity. She’s worked closely with Martin Pall, PhD, on MCS research and therapy protocol.
I re-read a seminal document defining Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: A 1999 Consensus. Eleven years later it still holds up but I think it could use some revising given the leaps in MCS research over the last decade; for example, the physiological mechanisms of MCS are better understood now in the areas of how it impacts multiple organ systems and so forth. Certainly the document’s call for clinical research is still valid, specifically in the area of diagnostic testing.
Leader-Post reports that education is key to dealing with MCS.
I read on the US Centers for Disease Control website about the effectiveness of washing your hands in soap and water to control the spread of germs and disease. The CDC recommends that products other than plain soap and water, like sanitation wipes, should only be used when there is no soap and water available– this would not be the case in most workplaces, for example. Further, when there is no soap and water, a plain alcohol gel is recommended, not the heavily fragranced “antibacterial” products you see advertised all over as the panacea to spreading illness.
Canadians for A Safe Learning Environment offers a good document about Air Filters: Choosing Portable Equipment… Plus.
The Children’s National Health Center announces the 8th Annual Conference on Children’s Health & the Environment to be held Friday, September 24, 2010 at Hamilton Crowne Plaza, Washington DC.
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