Chemical hypersensitivity

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Used for

chemical allergen, latex allergy, rubber allergy

Broader Terms

hypersensitivity

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• 3 Acute chemical hypersensitivity is typically considered a condition distinct from asthma and is often medically diagnosed as multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS).
• Some medical doctors think that the cause of chemical hypersensitivity is from the liver being partially damaged by an over-exposure to chemicals and it no longer can detoxify chemicals out of the body.
• To much ofmy reading audience, the foregoing discussion on ecological illness andspecifically chemical hypersensitivity is all too familiar.
• The difference between the presymptom and postsymptom findings weakens the notion that MCS is psychogenic, or that a chemical hypersensitivity is a product of emotional disturbance.
• A recent example is the research done on the Gulf War Syndrome (an illness in which chemical hypersensitivity is one of its symptoms).

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