Chemical Sensitivity: The Truth About Environmental Illness (Consumer Health Library) Review

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(More customer reviews)Mainstream medical science has already identified numerous chemicals as Sensitizers, while ones it has identified as Irritants.Case-specific & medically accepted forms of Chemical Sensitivity include Chemical Worker's Lung (a subset of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis), Irritant-induced Asthma, Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome, Irritant Rhinitis, Irritant-associated Vocal Cord Dysfunction, and Airborne Irritant Contact Dermatitis.

Chemical-specific forms include Formaldehyde Sensitivity, Glutaraldehyde Sensitivity, Cinnamic Aldehyde Sensitivity, Oil of Turpentine Allergy, Methyltetrahydrophthalic Anhydride Allergy, IgE-mediated Triethanolamine Sensitivity, Ammonium Persulfate Sensitivity, Methacrylate Sensitivity, Plicatic Acid (Red Cedar) Sensitivity, Sulfite Hypersensitivity, and numerous other ones.

Nontoxic/ambient benzene exposure has resulted in cases of hematotoxicity, while a number of chemicals, at nontoxic levels, have triggered anaphylaxis.

Objective medical findings in the chemically sensitive have included turbinate hypertrophy, nasal & laryngeal erythema, objective skin whealing resulting from skin testing, glandular hyperplasia, paradoxical adduction of the true vocal cords, urticaria, bronchial hyperresponsiveness in inhalation challenge testing, and other ones.

The AMA, in Report 4 of the Council on Scientific Affairs (A-98), has acknowledged as asthma triggers, "volatile organic compounds from carpeting, cabinetry, plywood, particle board, and fumes from household cleaning products", among other ones.The AAAAI has acknowledged "chemicals in the air", "household cleansers", and "paints or varnishes" as asthma triggers, among other ones.And the American Lung Association included in its list of asthma triggers "room deodorizers, cleaning chemicals, paints," and "hair spray".

Any literature on chemical sensitivity that does not include mention of these facts is, at the very least, an irresponsibly produced piece of literature.Such literautre can have an extremely deceptive effect.

Furthermore, the reading public has the right to know that Stephen Barrett, M.D. was never board certified at anything at any time in his life, being that he failed his board exams.He has no experience as a biochemist, no experience as a medical technologist, and no experience as a practitioner in any form of internal, dental, or dermatological medicine.In addition, Ronald Gots' association with the terms "insurance," "misrepresentation," and even "completely bogus operation" resulted from a now-defunct paper review company that he founded, in its services for the State Farm Insurance Company, along with an Oregon court case.The NBC television network was the entity which placed that matter in the public forum.And it did so years ago.

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Chemical sensitivity describes people with numerous troubling symptoms attributed to environmental factors. Many such individuals are seeking special accommodations or seeking recompense for their discomfort. CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY examines this phenomenon in depth and the scientific, legal, ethical, and political issues that surround it.