A Comparison of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity with Other Hypersensitivity Illnesses Suggests Evidence and a Path to Answers

Abstract

Throughout history, when doctors and scientists have encountered illnesses that were not clearly visible and didn't have an obvious explanation, those illnesses have often been dismissed as either not real or as psychological. Asthma was among the illnesses once thought to be psychological. In order for doctors and researchers to reach similar conclusions about multiple chemical sensitivity, they have had to overlook a great deal of valuable evidence including the signs and symptoms of patients as well as the commonalities this illness shares with other now well-recognized hypersensitivity illnesses. Researching the relationship between multiple chemical sensitivity and other hypersensitivity illnesses may help narrow down the potential mechanisms in this illness and bring answers to patients, which might ease the burden of having an illness that is once again unrecognized by the people patients are most dependent on for help.

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

“…NGF is a key neurotrophin found in the serum, bronchial tissue, and broncho-alveolar fluid of patients with allergy, asthma, and allergic rhinitis [ 83 ]. It should be noted that number of the MCS symptoms overlap with those of other hypersensitivity syndromes such as asthma, migraine and urticaria [ 84 ].…”