Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

An Advocate Is A Hospital Patient’s Best Friend

If you ever have to go to the hospital, don’t go it alone. Have a friend or loved one with you. It is the best possible health insurance.

From first entering the hospital waiting room, to being ensconced in a hospital bed, your advocate is indispensable. First of all, you are feeling poorly and probably can’t think clearly, at least not as clearly as usual. Secondly, there is a lot of paperwork that must be done, and your advocate can do most of it for you. And if there is a long wait, there is nothing like having a friend with you.

Exclusive Interview for Medicine.Org. with Dr. William J. Rea, MD, FACS, FAAEM, Founder and Director of the Environmental Health Center-Dallas

[Note: This interview was conducted November 28, 2006 by Steve Ross, MA, editor of the Chemical Sensitivity section, and co-editor of the Mental Health section, of Medicine.Org. Steve has known Dr. Rea since the year 2000, when he and his wife, Julie, visited the Environmental Health Center-Dallas, Dr. Rea's clinic, to treat Julie's severe chemical sensitivity. She was very sick at the time. Not feeling ill himself, Steve casually decided to be tested, just to see what would happen. When tests showed that he was on the brink of auto-immune illness, he became a patient too. Julie knows that Dr. Rea's guidelines, protocols (including the rotation diet), and antigens, especially the ground-breaking Autogenous Lymphocytic Factor (ALF) and the B-Cell Stimulator, saved her life. And by following Dr. Rea's orders, Steve reversed his auto-immune marker from positive to negative, saving him from sliding into a seriously debilitating illness. We believe Dr. Rea's clinic is the premier treatment facility in this country for the diagnosis and treatment of chemical sensitivity.]

Do you know anyone who doesn't like to be around perfumes or other strong fragrances, who avoids chemicals when possible, or who has strong aversions or allergic-type reactions to common products?

Perhaps that person -- maybe it's you? -- has an environmental problem known as Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.

It’s All About Love and Service
by Steve Ross, MA

As editor of the section on the environmental illness known as Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) for Medicine.org, I have a passion to inform people about this condition and help them either avoid getting it, or find better ways to treat and cope with it.

Should House Republicans be pushing new legislation that could wipe out the ability of states to ban or strictly limit the use of pesticides and toxic industrial chemicals that can jeopardize human health?

According to the president of Toyota North America, Toyota hybrids have saved 155 million gallons of gas and eliminated 3 billion pounds of greenhouse gases. This is undisputedly good news, and an important reminder of the direction the automotive industry must go.

Mid-July, 2006, Ford Motor Company became the first automaker to begin production of a commercially viable hydrogen engine, which emits almost nothing but clean water vapour into the air.

The hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines are destined for shuttle buses and will be ready for delivery later this year, said Ford Motor spokesman Nick Twork.

In an effort to reduce emissions of pollutants and increase the control pesticide use, Health Canada plans to monitor 5000 people to determine the extent of their body burden of harmful chemicals.

As in the US, many people in Canada believe that the federal government should get serious about reducing emissions and controlling pesticide use.

According to an article in the Washington Post, lodging giant Marriott International Inc. announced it will ban smoking in its 400,000 hotel rooms (2,300-plus hotels) in the United States and Canada.

Fiji Water likes to brand itself the trendsetting thirst-quencher of celebrities, but when it reached for some hackneyed humor about Cleveland in its latest ad campaign, it ran into trouble.

"The label says Fiji because it's not bottled in Cleveland," boasts the full-page ad running in national magazines like Esquire.