Author: Pamela Reed GibsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) expert helps readers understand this controversial medical condition. Worksheets throughout.
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Author: Pamela Reed GibsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) expert helps readers understand this controversial medical condition. Worksheets throughout.
Understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Author: Els ValkenburgPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786457155
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This personal view of multiple chemical sensitivity and environmental illness is supported by research. In a question-and-answer format, the effects of exposure to perfume, smoke, air fresheners, cleaning products, exhaust, and other air contaminants are examined and linked to symptoms such as headaches, allergies, asthma, and fatigue. The book contains additional testimony and reports from 37 sufferers, as well as listings of resources and related scientific articles.
Chemical Exposures
Author: Nicholas Askounes AshfordPublisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN: 9780442025243
Category : Environmental health
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This text comprehensively covers sensitivity to low-level chemical exposure. Originally developed from a report commissioned by the New Jersey Department of Health, this work defines and clarifies the nature of chemical sensitivity, shows how it differs from traditional allergies, and suggests how federal and state governments can help those who are affected. A new chapter is included in this version which analyzes the most current information on the Gulf War Syndrome and other emerging environmental health problems.
Defining Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Author: Bonnye L. MatthewsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476621624
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
The number of people suffering from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is greater than the number suffering from AIDS, yet the general public and the medical community know very little about the disease. More and more people are disabled daily, despite the fact that the condition does not have to occur. In Part One of this work, experts review the research into the disease, along with treatment strategies. Part Two examines the legal recourses available to MCS sufferers, such as workers' compensation claims and product liability suits. How the medical community has often worked against MCS sufferers is the focus of Part Three, demonstrating that medical opposition to the disease is unfounded. The editor, an MCS sufferer, details her own case in Part Four.
Understanding MCS
Author: Roselle P O'BrienPublisher:
ISBN: 9780991050499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
This much needed book provides insights as well as tools and strategies to educate agency administrators, management, and staff regarding the specific needs of clients with these environmental Illnesses (EIs) as well as what should be implemented regarding initial home safety, client safety, and needs assessments, training for staff and direct care providers, ongoing supervision and training, scheduling considerations, and more. Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is a real, physiological environmental illness affecting growing numbers of people including veterans returning home and needing care. Understanding MCS: An Agency/Provider Guide can be used to inform all healthcare professionals as they plan the care and services they will provide for individuals suffering from the very serious chronic illnesses of MCS, mastocytosis, MCAS, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and other mast cell activation spectrum related disorders.
Staying Well in a Toxic World
Author: Lynn LawsonPublisher: Noble Press Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Chemical Sensitivity
Author: Bonnye L. MatthewsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786437510
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book, written from a patient's perspective, first defines chemical sensitivity, then describes its effects, and discusses strategies for dealing with it. A complete resource listing, information on documenting a case, expert opinions on CS and an examination of the issues are included. An appendix provides detoxification data.
Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Author: Gail McCormickPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786454288
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The people profiled in this book tell how you can create a positive life when you no longer can work, shop, attend church and public events or socialize without unpleasant, or worse, consequences to your health from low-level chemical exposures. Living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is a collection of personal stories describing the lives and coping strategies of people with MCS from all over North America. It describes dozens of alternatives to the kinds of isolation and hopelessness that threaten people with this illness. Laced with inspiration, courage and humor, these stories dispel myths associated with people who have MCS, and will help others to articulate their own experience of the illness to family, friends, coworkers, and health care providers. Foreword by Pamela Reed Gibson of James Madison University. Appendices include a medical overview, resources for further information and support, and a sociologists' view of MCS by Steve Kroll-Smith, director of the Environmental Social Science Research Institute, University of New Orleans. Includes photographs of persons whose lives are described.
Amputated Lives
Author: Alison JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780967561912
Category : Environmentally induced diseases
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Chemical Sensitivity and Sick-Building Syndrome
Author: Yukio YanagisawaPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1351848518
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Written by multidisciplinary experts in medicine, chemistry, and architecture, this book examines chemical sensitivity (CS). In 15 chapters fitted to 15 lectures, it discusses not only the medical explanation, but also the environmental factors of this hypersensitive reaction, such as chemistry and architectural aspects. The book overviews pollution-induced diseases such as Minamata Disease. It also points out the similarity of modern hypersensitivity syndromes to historical pollution diseases from the viewpoints of not only natural scientific aspects, but also social understanding of the disease.