Ecologic illness

An academy of physicians that promotes a better understanding of ecologic illness and seeks methods for controlling such illness. Studies and treats people with illnesses or health problems caused by adverse, allergic or toxic reactions to a wide variety of environmental substances. 

Clinical ecology, a branch of medicine that believes that foods and environmental chemicals can be responsible for illnesses with multiple symptoms that lack objective physical markers, defines ecologic illness as follows ... 

Ecological illness is a polysymptomatic, multisystem chronic disorder manifested by adverse reactions to environmental excitants, as they are modified by individual susceptibility in terms of specific adaptations. The excitants are present in air, water, drugs, and our habitats. I11 ... 

Allergic to everything Allergic toxemia Autointoxication Candida hypersensitivity syndrome Cerebral allergy Chemical acquired immunodeficiency syndrome Chemical hypersensitivity disease Chemical multiple sensitivity Chemical-induced immune dysregulation Ecological illness Environmental illness or disease Environmental somatization disorder... 

A hazardous waste characteristic is a property that indicates that a waste poses a sufficient threat to deserve regulation as hazardous. U.S. EPA tried to identify characteristics that, when present in a waste, can cause death or illness in humans or ecological damage. U.S. EPA also decided that the presence of any characteristic of hazardous waste should be detectable by using a standardized test... 

An Alternative Approach to Allergies The New Field of Clinical Ecology Unravels the Environmental Causes of Mental and Physical Ills. Theron G. Randolph and Ralph W. Moss. New York HarperCollins, 1990. Written by the first modern physician to diagnose and treat environmental illness. 

Bradbury, J. W. and Vehrencamp, S. L. (1977). Social organization and foraging in embal-lonuridbats. Ill-IV. Behavioral Ecology 2,1-29. 

Douglas, H. D., Ill, Co, J. E., Jones, T. H., and Conner, W. E. (2004). Interspecific differences in Aethia spp. auklet odorants and evidence for chemical defense against ectoparasites. Journal of Chemical Ecology 30,1921-1935. 

Hanfin, C. T., Brodie, E. D., Ill, and Brodie, E. D., Jr. (2003). Tetrodotoxin levels in eggs of rough-skin newt, Taricha granulosa, are correlated with female toxicity. Journal of Chemical Ecology 29,1729-1739. 

Agelopoulos, N. A. and Keller, M. A. (1994). Plant-natural enemy association in the tritrophic system Cotesia rubecula-Pieris rapae-Brassicaceae (Cruciferae). Ill Collection and identification of plant and trass volatile. Journal of Chemical Ecology 20 1955-1967. 

Kuwahara, Y., Matsumoto, K., Wada, Y. and Suzuki, T. (1991a). Chemical ecology on astigmatid mites. XXIX. Aggregation pheromone and kairomone activity of synthetic lardolure (1 3 5 7 H. 3,5,7 - leur a m c ill I decy 1 formate and its optical... 

Air pollution is one of the worst problems caused by industries, agriculture, power stations, aerosols and other chemicals, and coal and other fires. As a result we suffer from headaches, respiratory tract infections and ailments, asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, eye problems, and eventually a profound breakdown in health manifested by various cancers. Other environmental hazards include lead from gasoline — which causes hyperactivity and birth defects — acid rain, carbon monoxide poisoning, water pollution, and radiation. Clinical ecologists treat illnesses and disorders that they believe stem from an individual s reaction to these environmental factors. They practice what is known as environmental medicine, and they estimate that between 10 and 30% of the population suffers from some form of ecological disease (Thomas, 1997 and General References). 

Tate, R. L. (1992). Ill Humic and fulvic acids Formation and decomposition. In Soil Organic Matter Biological and Ecological Effects, Tate, R. L., ed., Krieger, Melebar, FL, pp. 147-164. 

Fendick, E.A., Mather-Mihaich, E., Houck, K.A., St Clair, M.B., Faust, J.B., Rockell, C.H., Owens, M., 1990. Ecological toxicology and human health effects of heptachlor. Rev. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. Ill, 61-142. 

Davis, A. R., Alkaloids and ascidian chemical defense evidence for the ecological role of natural products from Eudistoma olivaceum, Mar. Biol., Ill, 375, 1991. 

In Canada more progress has been made in the recognition of MCS than in most countries of the world. Canada took many measures to improve the lives of MCS patients and others who have environmentally induced respiratory problems, like asthma patients. See, for example, the brochure of the Canadian Lung Association www.nb.lung. ca/pdf/NoScentsMakeSense.pdf Just like the U.S., Canada has several clinical ecological centers to help diagnose and support people with environmental illnesses. 

Cronin, M.T.D., Walker, J.D., Jaworska, J.S., Comber, M.H.I., Watts, C.D., and Worth, A.P., Use of QSARs in international decision-making frameworks to predict ecologic effects and environmental fate of chemical substances, Environ. Health Perspect., Ill, 1376-1390, 2003. 

An environmental disaster is defined as an environmental emergency or ecologic disruption of a severity and magnitude resulting in deaths, injuries, illness, and/or property damage that cannot be effectively managed by the application of routine procedures or resources and that result in a need for additional assistance. The consequences of the damage to the environment will vary based on the type of hazard, the mechanism of its... 

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