Multiple chemical sensitivity is a debilitating and invisible illness that results in a person's body being unable to process or detoxify normal everyday chemicals. These chemicals can be simple everyday use items such as scented soaps, perfumes, colognes, shampoos, creams, carpet cleaners, and laundry detergents. Cigarette smoke, fireplace smoke, and burning of other substances are also great offenders that should be avoided. Car exhaust, and the smell of gasoline are high up on the list of offenders. Car exhaust contains formaldehyde. People with multiple chemical sensitivity or environmental illness feel from sick to extremely sick after exposure to offending substances. People with multiple chemical sensitivity also cannot usually go to malls or other department stores because they will feel sick. The reason is the off-gassing of numerous chemicals in the air from manufactured goods.
There are many people who have multiple chemical sensitivity and who do not know it. One of the easiest and earliest symptoms to notice is chronic or intermittent raw throat, and clucking and clearing of the throat, sometimes mostly upon awakening. This could also occur because of digestive issues, or issues with the gallbladder as well which could progress to multiple-chemical sensitivity.
Clucking of the throat is also a sign of mold exposure, especially in work environments where there are air vents turned off on the weekends and at night.
Some people have been exposed to mold spores, or also pesticides and were not aware of it. The exposure may be several years earlier, and with further intoxication, and the improper vibration of water intake, or increasing heavy metals in the body, stronger manifestation of symptoms occurs.
Usually people who are marginally multiple chemical sensitivity go to sleep ok, and then wake up in the morning feeling stiff, raw, and have a general feeling of malaise. Further progression of the illness shows up as unrefreshing sleep, i.e. waking up unrefreshed.
In general as the illness manifests further there would be increasing difficulty with health e.g. malaise, melancholy, but not full blown depression.
Going to see a medical doctor does not produce a diagnosis, because multiple chemical sensitivity is a modern illness. Modern doctors are becoming more aware of what it is, but modern medicine does not yet know the causes. Look to Natural and Vibrational Healing to begin the Healing of this illness and seek well-being.
There are many symptoms that people with multiple chemical sensitivity can have:
Multiple chemical sensitivity is not an illness that comes on suddenly. It can take years to develop the full blown debilitating symptoms. Each person is unique and there can be so many different causes.
Multiple chemical sensitivity is often an illnesses of congestion, one of the 7 Physical Causes of Ill Health. Congestion can be in the meridians, in the glands (e.g. heavy metal poisons in the thyroid gland), or organs.
Unfortunately, mcs is not like a bruise you get that is permanent and is visible and then becomes of concern.
Some people with multiple chemical sensitivity in its early stages may not realize or be aware of the strong bodily aversion or “reaction” they have to irritating scents, strong scented chemicals and difficulty sleeping at night.
This lack of awareness is because the onset of the illness is gradual. You will get used to certain irritations, and lack of digestive power, and some lack of quality sleep when it is gradual.
Then when the person starts complaining about all kinds of scents, and cigarette smoke, etc causing breathing problems, the lungs are irritated and the illness could become obvious.
Often the adrenals are involved at some point in the illness as well. The adrenals are glands that sit atop the kidneys, 1 on each side, and secret extremely important hormones.
The adrenals, and their ability to function well can determine the length of and need Healing. Some people have a tendency to weakness of the adrenals, a hereditary illness.
The difficulties sleeping at night may increase when your body becomes more toxic. Sleep difficulties mean lack of deep sleep, unrefreshing sleep, difficulty waking up in the morning.
I believe most people who are chemically sensitive are also extremely sensitive people.
One of the other more important signs of the possibility of multiple chemical sensitivity is undigested food in the stool.
Hanna Kroeger Healer recommends if there is even a small amount of food in the stool, then you should seek a Vibrational Reading immediately.
However most people are not accustomed to looking at their stool after each bowel movement for undigested particles.
Black stools may be a common medical indication of internal bleeding, such as most commonly manifested in a duodenal ulcer. However, food in the stools may not be a symptom of medical disease and is therefore not medically diagnosable. There are comprehensive tests at American Laboratories to check the stool for evidence of a weak digestion.
We in our current society of Health Care in America and Canada are used to going to see the doctor when there are significant disturbing symptoms such as persistent fatigue or persistent abdominal pain.
One of the most offending chemicals to people with multiple chemical sensitivity is formaldehyde.
Formaldehyde is a prolific chemicals in everyday use. It is a health damaging chemical.
Formaldehyde is contained in cigarettes, and the off-gassing of particle board, car exhaust, carpeting, and much more.
Some of the furniture you have in your bedroom, or living room may be off-gassing formaldehyde.
In fact some people get sick only after exposure to new carpet installation, or have difficulty breathing and the lungs hurt enough to warrant a thorough medical work up.
Formaldehyde is also a chemical used in building materials. It may also be used in dry cleaning among other chemicals.
Off-gassing means that, the chemicals that are used in manufacturing and construction of any kind become volatile, in other words, they enter the air as a gas. Being a gas then means you can breath it in.
Depending on the amount of fresh air, and the quality of the air circulation in a room in the home for example, the concentration of volatile chemicals can begin to harm a person.
Babies are much more susceptible to these chemicals because they are smaller, are growing, and are often closer to the offending chemicals. An example is when a baby crawls on the carpet floor where the chemicals are at their highest concentration. Carpets can contain an incredibly complex soup of chemicals used in their manufacturing process.
As a Healer and Practitioner of Natural Healing I know that there are a few causes that are responsible for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
The result of all these is a weakened immune system, and detoxification pathways that do not function adequately to excrete chemicals from the body.
Many chemicals, even hormones have to go through a phase-1 to phase-2 detoxification pathway in the liver and then get excreted from the body through the bowels.
A detox pathway is then a complex set of chemical reactions using natural detoxification in the liver to get rid of poisons. This happens every day, every minute of the day. One of the most important detoxifiers is the antioxidant glutathione. Many nutrients are needed to detoxify.
Weakened Kidneys often only show up later in life, but can start from birth. Weakened kidneys is a very real phenomenon and a concept best explained from the original point of view of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Symptoms of weakened kidneys are ringing in the ears specifically after an exposure to chemicals. Weak will is another one.
Weak kidneys can be treated with several herbals, formulas and qigong, and acupuncture. More about this treatment of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
Often people who have multiple chemical sensitivity have several Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnosis, called syndromes or patterns of Energetic disturbance.
For example Kidney-Yang Deficiency is one of them.
Spleen-Qi Deficiency is another diagnosis often given for weak digestion and usually present in mcs people. The Spleen in Traditional Chinese Medicine or spleen-pancreas is the chinese organ responsible for digestion.
Kidney-yang deficiency means a lack of the warming energy from the body's kidney's which also warm the Spleen.
There is no doubt that the illness of multiple chemical sensitivity has also existed in ancient times in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Although this illness has been around for longer than we may think, it is definitely more difficult to Heal in modern times.
Here are a few reasons:
We are living with more electromagnetic disruption to our body's energies.
The water we drink has a vibration which disturbs our energy and our meridians.
Our adrenals are more underfunctioning now because of high stress, poorer nutrition, over demanding work, and lack of sufficient sleep.
Healing mcs is best done vibrationally with a Vibrational Reading, and testing everything out Vibrationally.
There is no doubt that a person with multiple chemical sensitivity needs to completely avoid all exposure to offending substances, and seek to relax, regroup, and rest.
Knowledge is a necessity in preventing exposure to offending substances and allowing Healing to happen. Seek and achieve well-being!
Healing multiple chemical sensitivity is not a short-term task. In fact it may take up to 6 months to feel better, and up to 2 years to see significant improvement. These time-frames typically can be achieved for vibrational readings where all supplements and the program are vibrationally resonant with the person.
Also, the environment the person lives in must be as free of chemical exposure as possible. Life must unfortunately be curtailed for a certain period to prevent relapses and go forward in Healing.
In order to Heal multiple chemical sensitivity it is necessary to only drink Artesian Spring Water on a long-term basis. Fasting is also contraindicated in multiple chemical sensitivity due to the fact that most people with multiple chemical sensitivity have weakened organ energy, and suffer from a Chinese Medicine diagnosis called deficiency.
Healing Multiple Chemical Sensitivity requires a great deal of patience and to seek Well-Being. There is always a great deal of congestion, energetic imbalances, broken detoxification pathways in the body in people with mcs, and Healing those difficulties can take a great deal of time.
Part 2: More information About Treatment and Healing MCS
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Page: Updated March 25, 2010