Idiopathic environmental intolerance

MCS stands for multiple chemical sensitivity and is also known as CS (chemical sensitivity), Cl (chemical injury), El (environmental illness), TILT (toxicant-induced loss of tolerance), twentieth-century illness and IEI (idiopathic environmental intolerance). MCS is the most common term for this condition, and is used around the world. [Pg.22]

The American College of Occnpational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), the American Academy of Allergy, Asthmatics, and Immunology (AAAAI) and the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) have all recommended that the term idiopathic environmental intolerance be nsed... [Pg.106]

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Table 18-1 lists the various names given to MCS. The most recent name for MCS is idiopathic environmental intolerances, or IEI (Bornschein et al. 2001). The variety of names reflects the unresolved definition of MCS. A survey of physicians familiar with MCS proposed six characteristics of MCS, as listed in Table 18-2 (Bartha et al. 1999). Table 18-3 lists the most frequent symptoms. MCS symptoms often overlap with symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia (Jason et al. 2000 Nawab et al. 2000). Prevalence of MCS in community surveys and occupational health clinics was found to be 6.3% and 23.0%, respectively (Kreutzer et al. 1999 Kutsogiannis and Davidoff 2001). [Pg.272]

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