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Multiple chemical sensitivity

Index Multiple chemical sensitivity

Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), also known as idiopathic environmental intolerances (IEI), is a disputed chronic condition characterized by symptoms that the affected person attributes to low-level exposures to commonly used chemicals. [1]

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American Academy of Environmental Medicine

The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM), founded in 1965 as the Society for Clinical Ecology, is an international association of physicians and associated professionals interested in the clinical aspects of ecological or environmental illnesses.

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Annie B. Bond

Annie B. Bond (formerly Annie Berthold-Bond) (born 1953) is a green-living advocate, author, editor, entrepreneur, and consultant.

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Banana production in Ecuador

Banana production in Ecuador is important to the national economy.

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Building biology

Building biology (or Baubiologie) is a field of building science investigating the indoor living environment for a variety of irritants.

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Camelford water pollution incident

The Camelford water pollution incident involved the accidental contamination of the drinking water supply to the town of Camelford, Cornwall, in July 1988.

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Chemical sensitivity

Chemical sensitivity may refer to.

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Chemophobia

Chemophobia (or chemphobia or chemonoia) is an aversion to or prejudice against chemicals or chemistry.

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CI

CI or Ci may refer to.

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Cindy Duehring

Cindy Duehring (August 10, 1962 – June 29, 1999) was an American activist and researcher.

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Claudia S. Miller

Claudia S. Miller, an allergist and immunologist, is an author, instructor, and scientist noted for research in chemical intolerance, and development of tools for its diagnosis.

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Clinical ecology

Clinical ecology was the name given by proponents in the 1960s to a claim that exposure to low levels of certain chemical agents harm susceptible people, causing multiple chemical sensitivity and other disorders.

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David Emerson Root

David Emerson Root (born March, 1936) is an American physician known for promoting L. Ron Hubbard's controversial Purification Rundown to treat chemical exposure.

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Ecological health

Ecological health is a term that has been used in relation to both human health and the condition of the environment.

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EI

EI or Ei may refer to: 8eft Kws.

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Electromagnetic hypersensitivity

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) is a claimed sensitivity to electromagnetic fields, to which negative symptoms are attributed.

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Elimination diet

An elimination diet, also known as exclusion diet is a diagnostic procedure used to identify foods that an individual cannot consume without adverse effects.

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Environmental medicine

Environmental medicine is a multidisciplinary field involving medicine, environmental science, chemistry and others, overlapping with environmental pathology.

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Human eye

The human eye is an organ which reacts to light and pressure.

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Hyperosmia

Hyperosmia is an increased olfactory acuity (heightened sense of smell), usually caused by a lower threshold for odor.

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IEI

IEI may mean.

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Index of environmental articles

The natural environment, commonly referred to simply as the environment, includes all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth.

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Index of sustainability articles

This page is an index of sustainability articles.

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Infrared heater

An infrared heater or heat lamp is a body with a higher temperature which transfers energy to a body with a lower temperature through electromagnetic radiation.

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Intolerance

Intolerance or intolerant may refer to.

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Iris Bell

Iris R. Bell is an American psychiatrist and alternative medicine researcher.

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Jack Thrasher

Jack Dwayne Thrasher (1938 – January 27, 2017) was an American immunotoxicologist.

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Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore (born Julie Anne Smith; December 3, 1960) is an American actress, prolific in films since the early 1990s.

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List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders

This is a list of acronyms and initials related to diseases (infectious or non-infectious) and medical disorders.

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List of alternative therapies for developmental and learning disabilities

This list covers alternative therapies for developmental and learning disabilities.

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List of diseases (M)

This is a list of diseases starting with the letter "M".

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List of environmental films

Environmental issues have increasingly become a topic in film and television.

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List of environmental organisations topics

This is a list of topics on which environmental organizations focus.

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List of MeSH codes (C20)

The following is a list of the "C" codes for MeSH.

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List of MeSH codes (C21)

The following is a list of the "C" codes for MeSH.

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List of Northern Exposure characters

The following are fictional characters who appeared in Northern Exposure, an American television series which originally aired on CBS from July 1990 to July 1995.

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List of Northern Exposure episodes

A list of episodes for the television series Northern Exposure.

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List of questionable diseases

This is a list of diseases and diagnoses that are considered questionable or rejected by many in the medical profession.

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Marjorie Spock

Marjorie Spock (September 8, 1904, New Haven, Connecticut – January 23, 2008, Sullivan, Maine) was an environmentalist, author and poet, best known for her influence on Rachel Carson when the latter was writing Silent Spring.

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MCS

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Medically unexplained physical symptoms

Medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS or MUS) are symptoms for which a treating physician or other healthcare providers have found no medical cause, or whose cause remains contested.

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Men with No Shadows

Men With No Shadows (Traditional Chinese: 不速之約), is a Hong Kong television drama starring Bobby Au-yeung, Raymond Lam, and Tavia Yeung.

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Mimic 3: Sentinel

Mimic 3: Sentinel is a 2003 science fiction horror film, directed by J. T. Petty, with a script inspired by a short story of the same name by Donald A. Wollheim.

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Neurogenic inflammation

Neurogenic inflammation is inflammation arising from the local release by afferent neurons of inflammatory mediators such as Substance P, Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP), neurokinin A (NKA), and endothelin-3 (ET-3).

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Neurotoxicity

Neurotoxicity is a form of toxicity in which a biological, chemical, or physical agent produces an adverse effect on the structure or function of the central and/or peripheral nervous system.

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Pamela Dalton

Pamela Dalton is a cognitive psychologist.

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Purification Rundown

The Purification Rundown, also known as the Purif or the Hubbard Method, is a controversial detoxification program developed by Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard and used by the Church of Scientology as an introductory service.

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Quackwatch

Quackwatch is a United States-based network of people founded by Stephen Barrett, which aims to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct" and to focus on "quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere".

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Safe (1995 film)

Safe is a 1995 British/American drama film written and directed by Todd Haynes, and starring Julianne Moore.

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Sandra Kanck

Sandra Myrtho Kanck (born 20 April 1950) is a South Australian politician.

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Saponin

Saponins are a class of chemical compounds found in particular abundance in various plant species.

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Sensitization

Sensitization is a non-associative learning process in which repeated administration of a stimulus results in the progressive amplification of a response.

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Sick building syndrome

Sick building syndrome (SBS) is a medical condition where people in a building suffer from symptoms of illness or feel unwell for no apparent reason.

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Snowflake, Arizona

Snowflake is a town in Navajo County, Arizona, United States.

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Susan Abod

Susan Gayle Abod (born 1951) is an American feminist activist and musician.

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Theron Randolph

Theron Randolph (1906 – September 29, 1995) was a physician, allergist, and researcher from the United States.

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Tilt

Tilt may refer to.

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Toxic injury

A toxic injury is a type of injury caused by toxin.

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Wastebasket diagnosis

A wastebasket diagnosis or trashcan diagnosis is a vague diagnosis given to a patient or to medical records department for essentially non-medical reasons.

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Whistleblower protection in the United States

A whistleblower is a person who exposes any kind of information or activity that is deemed illegal, unethical, or not correct within an organization that is either private or public.

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Wilson's temperature syndrome

Wilson's (temperature) syndrome, also called Wilson's thyroid syndrome or WTS, is an alternative medicine concept which is not recognized as a medical condition by evidence-based medicine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_chemical_sensitivity

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