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March 22, 2008

I know several of you have indicated that you also have MCS. Let this be a

lesson to us that we must continue to do all we can to ensure our rights to

Health Freedoms remain intact. Health Freedoms include far more than concerns

over forced and mandated vaccinations.

I was so very angered by this segment when I watched it the other night, that I

am still unable to write a posting to ABC NEWS and Terry Moran. I can tell you

one thing: This Dr. needs all the help he can get. If Texas manages to put him

out of business, it won't be long before my allergist gets put out of business.

My allergist and his group also practice similar protocols to treat their

patients. I have been diagnosed with Environmental Illness (EI) and severe

sensitivities to multiple chemicals [Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS)]

since 1986. These diagnoses are at the root of the majority of the chronic

conditions with which I have been diagnosed since that time. During the past two

decades my reactions have become more severe, and more reactions have now become

systemic.

Heaven help us all!!

~~Ruth

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Controversial Clinic for the 'Chemically Sensitive'

Texas Doctor Target of State Medical Board for 'Environmental Medicine'

ABC News anchor Terry Moran at the Environmental Health Center-Dallas with Dr.

Rae. (ABC News) By TERRY MORAN and MARY-CLAUDE FOSTER

March 20, 2008

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Share What if you thought that the world around you was making you sick? If you

feared that the house you live in, the car that you drive and everyday

activities such as watching television and talking on a cell phone were making

you ill?

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Nightline: Dangerous Doc? Dr. Rea says he has treated more than 30,000

people, from all over the world, who believe the world around them has made them

sick. Very sick.

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" Lots of times they know what's wrong with them, but they haven't been able to

get any help, " Rea said. " And they're looking for solutions to their problems. "

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Watch the story tonight on " Nightline " at 11:35 p.m. ET

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A board certified surgeon, Rea has become one of the foremost practitioners of

" environmental medicine. " At his clinic, the Environmental Health Center-Dallas,

no cell phones are allowed and the air is constantly filtered. The walls and

floors are made of porcelain -- " because there are no fumes and particulates, "

Rea said -- and other non-reactive surfaces such as unvarnished wood. The clinic

has been open since 1974.

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" We had to de-grease all the exercise equipment, " Rea said. " Because of the

fumes that were coming out of it. "

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'Chemically Sensitive'

Nagy, a patient of Rea and a medical doctor with a degree from Cornell

University, said she came to the clinic because " I knew I was dying. I knew I

had, like, a month left. "

You wouldn't know to look at her now but just a few years ago Nagy could hardly

move.

" I knew I was sick, I thought I was depressed, " she said. " I went to a

psychiatrist every day for a year. I went to an acupuncturist. "

Nothing worked, and Nagy became convinced that she was suffering from an

" environmental illness " : that chemicals and electromagnetic energy in the world

around her were making her ill.

Story

Individual Genetic Risk Factors Delivered Via Internet " I was unable to drive

into Los Angeles to see the psychiatrist because of the diesel exhaust coming in

the car, " she said. " And I had no knowledge that I was chemically sensitive. "

Nagy also says the mold in her former house was toxic.

" It's possible that I had other exposures before this house and other

situations, which adds to my toxic load, so that this house tipped me over, " she

said. " We all see car exhaust, smell car exhaust on the way to work in the

morning, and we all have dogs and cats at home, and we all have new carpeting at

work. We all have air fresheners at the airport that we get exposed to. It's how

you deal with those exposures. Do you get tired or do you get a headache? That

makes you environmentally ill. "

Diesel Fuel and Detox

The first thing Rea did was test Nagy for " environmental allergies. " He injected

a small amount of antigen -- which is a diluted amount of the very thing she may

be allergic to -- which triggers an immune system response. Rea tests for a

whole slew of allergens such as perfumes, fabric softeners, diesel fuels, woods

like oak and many others.

Story

Tracing Lineage With DNA Then Nagy, as with most of Rea's patients, began what

is called the detoxification program that he says cleanses the body of all

pollutants. The patient gets saunas â€“ to " sweat out " the toxins -- purified

air, and certain kinds of food in a controlled environment.

Nagy became so ill during detox she was admitted to a nearby hospital and ended

up in the psychiatric ward.

" It was excruciating, " she recalled. " The only benefit was I did oxygen every

night and they had hard surface floors without carpeting. I didn't know really

the principals of environmental medicine yet. I just knew that I needed to rest

and oxygen seemed to help. "

Nagy's husband Wes Nagy said " the psychiatrist that had me commit her told me

she would never get well and that I should consider moving on. " But after a

month of treatment at the clinic, Wes Nagy said that his wife " was like somebody

else. It was like somebody had flicked a switch. It was a different person. "

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Public Health Hazard?

If it all sounds a little extreme to you, you're not alone. " We believe he is

posing a threat to the public health of the citizens of Texas, " said Mari

, an attorney for the Texas Board of Medicine.

The board is trying to stop Rea from practicing his brand of medicine, and may

even strip him of his license. The hearing is set for Dec. 1.**************

Story

A Legacy of Cancer

" The treatments that he's giving, we believe, can be dangerous to the public

health, such as injecting jet fuel or natural gas, " said , who added

that the treatments appear to have no clinical value.

Rea says that he has never injected patients with jet fuel.

" I've used antigens of it, and,of course, as you well know, that was one of the

accusations, " he said. " I used an antigen, a provocation test, just like we

would a food or just like we would a mold. "

We asked Dr. Khan of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,

who, unlike Rea, is a board certified allergist and immunologist, if any of this

makes sense.

Diesel Fuel and Detox

The first thing Rea did was test Nagy for " environmental allergies. " He injected

a small amount of antigen -- which is a diluted amount of the very thing she may

be allergic to -- which triggers an immune system response. Rea tests for a

whole slew of allergens such as perfumes, fabric softeners, diesel fuels, woods

like oak and many others.

Story

Tracing Lineage With DNA

Then Nagy, as with most of Rea's patients, began what is called the

detoxification program that he says cleanses the body of all pollutants. The

patient gets saunas â€“ to " sweat out " the toxins -- purified air, and certain

kinds of food in a controlled environment.

Nagy became so ill during detox she was admitted to a nearby hospital and ended

up in the psychiatric ward.

" It was excruciating, " she recalled. " The only benefit was I did oxygen every

night and they had hard surface floors without carpeting. I didn't know really

the principals of environmental medicine yet. I just knew that I needed to rest

and oxygen seemed to help. "

Nagy's husband Wes Nagy said " the psychiatrist that had me commit her told me

she would never get well and that I should consider moving on. " But after a

month of treatment at the clinic, Wes Nagy said that his wife " was like somebody

else. It was like somebody had flicked a switch. It was a different person. "

" You can have people stressed out and they can break out in a rash or hives or

all sorts of things just from the nervous excitement, " he said. " These things

are real events. But it's not because of the substance they just ingested, it's

because of their conditioned response and so when they smell whatever the odor

is, they have this conditioned response, they feel ill, their pulse rate may go

up, they have a headache, a variety of things. "

Getting away from it all was a matter of survival for Nagy. She moved to an

island -- Martha's Vineyard -- and created a special pollutant-free home -- Rea

style.

" Most of these patients who have these ailments actually have an underlying

psychiatric problem, and one of the problems in this country is the under

diagnosis and under treatment of psychiatric diseases, and I think we are all

guilty of that, " Khan said.

Nagy said, " I tried to communicate with the psychiatrists who take care of me,

to invite him over to Bill Rea's clinic. To educate him how many of these

patients appear to be mentally deranged or have mental issues, but how in fact

when you treat their chemical sensitivity, then their mental situation gets much

better. "

It is a fact that Rea and his methods are controversial, scorned by many

mainstream medical researchers and institutions. But all that simply makes no

sense to those who say the world made them sick, and Dr. Rea made them

better.

" I don't want to get all choked up, " Nagy said, " but he gave me my life. "

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Click here for more information on Nagy's Story and environmental medicine.

Environmental medicine is not an official branch of the American Medical

Association. Click here to find out more information on allergens from the The

American Academy of Allergy Astham and Immunology.

ABCNews.com Producer Escherich contributed to this report.

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It is wonderful to see all the support for Dr. Rea from those who have lived

with dibilitating environmental sensitivies, yet have been unable to obtain

viable medical treatment from self professed educated physicians. Regarding the

Texas Medical Board, I am aware that one of their members, Dr. , was

recently forced to step down for his conflicts of interest. Dr. was

generating substancial income as an expert witness testifying against physicians

such as Dr. Rea while also sitting in a position to challenge their licenses. It

is beneficial to a health insurer wishing to deny payment for a claim if the

physician is found to be malpracticing. The burden of cost then shifts to the

malpractice insurer. As I understand it, Dr. , while sitting in a position

of authority and a position to challenge physician's licenses for the TMB, was

also receiving monthly payments from Blue Cross/Blue Shield in addition to his

expert witness payments. To have a physician license challenged by a medical

board is quite useful to imply evidence of malpractice for the health insurer. I

am aware that Dr. Rea's license has been challenged by 5 Annonymous complaints,

Not from the patients who were the subject of these complaints. The commonality

of these 5 patients is that they all had the same health insurer. I am also

aware that the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has a

lawsuit against the Texas Medical Board (TMB) for sham reviewing physicians and

challenging their licenses as retaliation in, among other things, the desire to

limit insurer responsibility. The problem goes deeper than simply environmental

physicians, several spinal surgeons have also been retaliated against. It is an

abuse of power detrimental to the citizens of the US. Such conflicts of interest

within trusted authoratative boards and organization are pervasive and corrupt.

For more on the subject read:AAPS vs

TMBhttp://www.aapsonline.org/tmb/tmb-12-20-2007

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MrsKramer55 10:06 AM Mark As Violation

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I find it odd that Dr. Khan, an allergist, felt entitled to brand all patients

with environmental illness as having psychiatric problems. Is Dr. Khan a

psychiatrist? Terry should have called Dr. Khan on this.

Environmental illness is real. The medical establishment can offer patients with

this illness no help. My wife went to almost two dozen physicians before she

found Dr. Rea. She was dying; he saved her life. The Texas Medical Board's

attempt to close down Dr. Rea's clinic is reprehensible.

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bfsnowden 10:05 AM Mark As Violation

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MCS is a real disease. I was diagnosed with it in 1996 after working for a

Government agency. I was exposed everday for a period of two years to an Ultra

Hazardous fluid. All the conventional Doctors wouldn't even give me a simple

blood test, they would pat me on the back and say, " Your okay go home and rest " .

Luckily I found a Doctor in Boca Raton, Fl who knew what was wrong with me,

treated me to the best of his ability and saved my life.I am now much less

reactive to Chemical triggers in the environment that would have made me very

sick even a few years ago. Shame on Terry Moran and ABC for trashing Dr Rea. Dr.

Rea is providing his patients with medical care that 99% of other medical

Doctors simply refuse to consider as a real disease. In my opinion it's the 99%

that need their medical priviledges revoked. Dave Park, S. Florida

coconutdelta@... (Shame on you ABC, thanks for nothing)

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coconutdelta 9:26 AM Mark As Violation

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â€œChemical Sensitivityâ€ and â€œEnvironmental Illnessâ€ are not good names

for this condition as they do not identify the root cause which is chemical

injury. I have not been treated by an environmental medicine doctor, but my

primary care physician understands that my disabling symptoms were caused by

repeated exposures to the neurotoxins in pesticides. I was examined by a

Harvard-trained neuro-psychologist who found no mental illness, but did diagnose

neurological damage consistent with exposure to pesticides. This is not an

allergic reaction so Mr. Moran would have done better to interview a

toxicologist than an allergy specialist if he really wanted to understand the

condition that many of Dr. Raeâ€™s patients are coping with.

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leard51 9:23 AM Mark As Violation

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MCS, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and EI, Environmental Illness are a REAL

problem today. I have MCS/EI, it has changed my life drastically, the more

people I talk to about it the more I hear people with similiar symptoms and

those who are on the verge of developing it themselves. It is only the beginning

as when we first heard of AIDS. It is real, it is here and our Medical Community

needs to pay attention to it.

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maryanne1147 9:16 AM Mark As Violation

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This article offers further proof that even medical doctors can suffer from

mental illness. As long as they don't hurt anyone, and don't collect

HMO/Medicare/Medicaid monies, I see no reason to prevent them from practicing.

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1NewYorker1 8:43 AM Mark As Violation

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How many of you injected yourselves with the flu virus aka Flu Vaccine..or any

other vaccine? They all contain the very illness or disease you are hoping not

to get. You inject poison or toxins into your pets too, except they're also

called vaccines. Same idea, as with allergies, you're trying to build up

antibodies so you don't get an illness or an allergic reaction.I'd turn

Nightline off from now on. Moran's ambush on Dr. Rea proved Moran's the mental

case.

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cherholmes 7:52 AM Mark As Violation

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Now I have it figured out. Moran caught Dr. Rea off guard. It looked like Moran

shceduled the interview under false pretenses and attacked Dr. Rea. Dr. Rea was

unprepared for a brutal attack. Moran is disgusting.These people are not

injecting deisel fuel in their bodies, idiots, it is allergy serum like any

pollen allergy serum. They are tiny amounts of the actual substances you're

allergic too that help build up a tolerance to the chemical, pollen whatever

substance you're allergic too. These serums are called antigens. Anyone who

takes an allergy shot or does homeopathic remedies is actually taking a minute

amount of whatever allergen they're allergic too. Given over a long enough time,

the body will see the substance as not foreign and the immune system will stop

attacking itself. It cures insteads of just treating, something the Big Pharma

can't allow. Cures cut into their profits.If you really want to know anything,

study the allergic reaction and the immune response to it.Chemical sensitivity

is mental illness. That's good to know all asthmatics are really mentally ill,

and anaphalaxis sp?) is a form of mental illness. It made me code on the

operating table before.IDIOTS!

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cherholmes 7:32 AM Mark As Violation

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It's a modern day mental institution.

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stop2think 6:53 AM Mark As Violation

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What I loved was the immunologist looking down his nose at " shots of toxins " ...I

underwent shots of toxins for years during puberty!! They damn near killed me

once with a misread dosage amount?!? It's because this man sounds ever so

" homeopathic " that those doctors are terrified...but forget it, any one who is

" alternative " is a witch doctor in their eyes....and we are all idiots for

taking vitamin supplements. Uh-huh. Except big pharma isn't so darn cranky about

vitamins now that they're BIG BUSINESS....and everyone cashing in on the

" Organic " bandwagon. Corporate america makes me sick.

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stevenredd 5:58 AM Mark As Violation

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I am a 36 yr old Army Soldier stationed in Germany. Over here this medicine is

practiced. I went to this kind of doctor for overweight and not feeling good.

She tested me and detoxed me of all the enviromental elements. I feel much

better now after the detox. I felt tired after the each detox like I worked out

for two hours. My wife's father had a operation which resulted in a reaction to

the medicine he was given. He had problems knowing where he was and who his wife

is. The regular doctors wanted him to go to a home for the mental ill. No doctor

could cure him so he was reffered to the alternative medice. She detoxed him of

all the medicine he was given. He is not 100% cured but he is better and he now

knows his family. I wish American lawers would do more research from other

countries who use this medicine practice before they say it is wrong! I invite

them to come over here and see for themself.

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johnz71 5:20 AM Mark As Violation

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I cannot believe that idiot immunologist. MCS and EI are not all in people's

heads. Those of us with MCS/EI would gladly let him walk in our shoes for a day

or more. Unfortunately, there are so many companies in our country that don't

care what the chemicals in their products do to people; all they care about is

their profits. Of course, those same companies are the ones that are paying for

the supposed research on drug safety and are also the ones that have the FDA in

their pocket. How many people have to be afflicted before MCS and EI move into

the mainstream? Why does the U.S. healthcare industry and insurance talk about

preventive medicine yet only treat symptoms and only pay for drug therapy. That

is why they are against Dr. Rae because he is not supporting the drug industry.

It is too bad that this is how things work in the U.S.

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vickies63 4:48 AM Mark As Violation

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I know multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS) is real because I have it. I

developed it after exposure to a carpet installation at work (formaldehyde). My

first symptoms were dizzyness, nausea, concentration problems and panic attacks.

Yes, chemical exposure can CAUSE psychological symptoms. My symptoms

progressed further to a reocurring flu-like illnesss as my immune system tanked.

This developed into chronic fatigue syndrome which has been extremely disabling.

I can no longer work and am on SSDI as a result. When I was trying to find

out what was wrong with me, regular doctors had no clue and were actually

poisoning me with their medicines. I was finally referred to an environmental

medicine specialist who is also an allergist/immunologist. I don't know where I

would be without my doctor. Due to his treatment, which includes neutralization

therapy I can now be around normal society and only have occasional problems.

As others have mentioned, some of the population has genetic blocks in their

methylation (detox) cycle which prevents them from naturally detoxing all the

chemicals in the environment as well as other people can. I believe this

describes me, but don't have the funds to do the testing. This explains why some

people cannot tolerate saunas, because the sauna will knock the toxins loose,

but then they will be unable to expel them, therefore they will feel sick.I

have also been working with a naturopath and slowly improving over time.

Sometime this year I will be trialing Folapro which will bypass the methylation

block and allow the toxins to come out as intended by nature. This will be a

very slow process, but I am hopeful that this angle will allow me to return to a

normal life. Any condemnation of environmental medicine specialsts and

naturopathic methods would be extremely detrimental to people such as myself.

This problem affects a large percentage of the population - you or someone you

know could be next!

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I am chemically injured and send a heartfelt thanks to those posting on this

site in support of Dr. Rea. I second the suggestion of the poster listed as

" moldkills " of regular cover of environmental illness. Listed beow are address

to send our support to Dr. Rea and our opinions/experiences/support of Dr. Rea

to the Texas Medical Board. If someone has other address/places we should send

letters, please let us know.Environmental Health Center-DallasDr. Rea8345 Walnut

Hill Lane, Suite 220Dallas, Texas 75231 USAPhone: 214.368.4132Fax: 214.

691.8432Texas Medical BoardMail Code: 901P.O. Box 2018 Austin, TX 78768-2018

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lola_felicia 4:40 AM

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Shame on Terry Moran for making such a biased and poorly researched report!

Obviously Dr. Rhea has dared to NOT DRUG his patients and use common sense

instead, which has ALARMED the Americal Medical Association, American

Psychiatric Association, and DRUG COMPANIES. That allergist should know that

different people have allergies to different things, and they can develop at

different times in their lives. And it is quite the reverse of what he said:

people with seemingly psychological-based difficulties often have underlying,

undetected physical illness and deficiencies which can make them feel/act crazy.

B-complex (namely B1, B5) can do wonders for one's mental state. Back to

allergies-- I had the misfortune of sitting very near a large, active printer in

an office. I got sinus problems every time someone did a big print job. When I

was away from the printer, my sinus problems disappeared. Why not just observe

the obvious instead of attributing it to psychiatric problems? Terry asked Dr.

Rhea if he was INJECTING his patienets with jet fuel, and he said " no. " Yet

Terry repeated that he was to the other people he interviewed. That was totally

false! Nightline, try doing some research and please get your facts straight. By

the way, it sounds like Dr. Rhea is basing some of his treatments on the same

theory behind homeopathy, which is used extensively in Europe, including by the

Queen of England. Homeopathy involves taking incredibly minute amounts of the

very thing that one is allergic to. It is in such a diluted, minute amount that

the body's immune system is able to kick in and start working again.

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I wanted to note that prior to my learning about the possible REAL reasons for

mine and my families illnesses, I was dx with and put on SSDI for

" medication-resistant ultra-rapid cycling form of bipolar disorder " . This means

that the doctors have been trying to treat this " psychiatric disorder " with

every medication under the sun for over a decade to no avail. Less than 2 yrs

ago the doctors were testing me for HIV and Lupus because I was so ill ...all

the time. I did not " think " or " believe " I was ill, I was very very sick,

everyone could see it. The tests came back negative...everyone was happy and the

doctors let it go. The bottom line...in my experience most people believe that

if you get sick..you take medication(s) to get better. Unfortunately a lot

people seem to believe, if you don't get better..then you are CHOOSING to be

sick! I've said for years...who would choose this? Really? Would you choose to

have to hold your breath at the grocery store any time you even walk past the

detergent aisle? Or at the gas station when you need to fill up your car? Would

you choose to have to wear a yellow wristband that literally has so many

allergies listed that the nurse is writing in tiny letters and using every

available segment of the band, just to ensure that you don't encounter something

that makes you even more ill... every time you go to the hospital ( I have to go

a lot). Would you choose to have long-time friends that you could no longer be

around because you get severe headaches every time you are near them. Would you

choose to break out in rashes from watches? earrings? necklaces? clothing tags?

lotions? cosmetics? (something new all the time) Would you choose to have

chronic sinus infections and chronic bronchitis? Asthma? Narcolepsy? OCD? Panic

Attacks? Would you choose to have people that used to love and respect you look

at you with pity, disgust, fear, frustration and eventually not look at you at

all? Again I ask..who would choose this? Would you??

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My husband died recently from end stage Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. His

heart gave out but many vital organs were failing. He went to Dr Rae's clinic in

1978, 1980, and 1995 and found great relief from the treatments and even more we

found an understanding of what the battle was. Social Security Disability was

given for MCS also [they seem to understand what you journalists don't---and

maybe that is because it hasn't been diagnosed on you or someone you love!!] It

is one of the hardest to live with diagnoses that I have ever encountered, and

all people living around an MCS person have to live in the same clean

environment with all the restrictions! It is a family-and-friend-wide treatment

and quite limiting. I personally praise Dr. Rae for his knowledge and courage in

treating this mind-boggling disease!!

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Widow2006 3:48 AM Mark As Violation

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After reading all comments so far, I would like to thank ABC's Nightline.

Certainly not for your biased reporting, but definitely for this space to allow

comments. As noted by the vast majority of respondents here, your discounting

slant was obvious. Thank you to Dr. Nagy, who was featured in your segment.

Thank you to the physician who wrote in citing PubMed's multiple peer reviewed

articles, studies, etc. on " Environmental Illness/MCS/Chemical Injury/TILT or

Toxicant Induced Loss of Tolerance..... " And thank you to the Harvard trained

physician with an open and inquiring mind. For those of us dealing with this

poorly understood illness, we do need to support our physicians like Dr. Rea.

They are all being attacked in a well orchestrated manner. One must only

consider the liabilities of chemical, pharmacological, and insurance industries,

to understand the forces behind denying the very real situation that impacts us.

As for myself personally, I have mostly stabilized, and was fortunate to have

found a knowledgeable physician. Still I must wear a mask when in some

situations. It's amazing that nearly " everyone " who inquires why I'm wearing it,

either has " sensitivies " themselves, or knows someone else who is impacted.

Speaking of " Sensitivities " - a dear friend once said that calling this

" Chemical Sensitivity " is such a misnomer. It's like calling a person who's been

hit by a semi, " Sensitive to Trucks. " Perhaps ABC might consider anothe, more

fully researched segment? AC

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What a disgrace in the name of journalism. There was no mention of the plethora

of information and documentation present substantiating the validity of chemical

and environmental sensitivity. So they put on an allergist who believes people

with EI are suffering from psychiatric illness? Shameful. Well, doesnâ€™t that

tell us how barbaric our society has remained. Werenâ€™t people with thyroid

disease eons ago thrown in psychiatric hospitals before mainstream medicine

became â€œenlightenedâ€ ? What happened to choices in America for heath care? I

donâ€™t believe that survivors living with chemical sensitivities enjoy the

forced isolation they are subjected to that the illness demands or wearing

oxygen when they go out.. This portrayal of a serious, debilitating and life

threatening health situation just adds insult on top of injury to what EI has

already done to peopleâ€™s lives. In listening to others stories, most people

have tried to get help through mainstream medicine for years while their disease

state continued to progress, as most untreated diseases do. Only some of the

more fortunate have been able to access medical care by environmental physicians

for the abatement of severe levels of suffering and improved quality of life.

Something that mainstream medicine has been unable to provide. This is why

people generally seek out other alternatives. There are so many physicians in

the US that do know how legitimate Environmental Illness is. Why didnâ€™t they

talk about SPECT scans and challenge tests, immunological and neurological data?

Any report on an illness should have clinical information. How many more people

have to suffer in the name of physicians who have a mindset that is not well

informed? Pure and simple, the true danger lies in traditional medicineâ€™s

treatment of illness only within their own parameters that they feel comfortable

with. Onevoice

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I have been a patient of Dr. Rae since 2004. Back in 2004 I got extremely ill

from various molds in my home including the highly toxic stachybotrys black

mold. I had no idea that mold could make me so ill. I became allergic to

everything, I was in massive pain all the time. Before I went to Dr. Rae my

Family doctor tested me for everything under the sun and all came back normal,

he took me out of work for chronic fatigue for 2 weeks, then I found an ENT in

Oklahoma City who dabbled in environmental medicine, he suggested I go see Dr.

Rae in Dallas. My mother also had suggested me to go see him. I finally did in

October of 2004, I found out I was extremely ill with mold poisoning, I needed

oxygen because my oxygen saturation was low. Dr Rae saved my life back in 2004,

if it wasnt for him I would never have found out what was wrong with me, I never

would have moved out of my house, or recovered from my illness. Unfortunately my

daughter has asthma from the mold exposure and my son Im afraid has some form of

ADD. I was left with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. Dr Khan has got to be the

most ignorant person I have ever heard, to say that 30,000 people are crazy and

that Dr. Rae is a dangerous doctor is beyond ridiculous. I am currently sick

again from exposure to lead, and under Dr. Rae's care. I don't know what I would

do without Dr. Rae. These ignorant, money hungry doctors and lawyers of the

state of Texas should be ashamed of themselves for trying to hurt a doctor that

has helped so many. I NEED Dr. Rae and his treatment and so do many others. I am

appalled at the coverage of the story and how bias it was against Dr. Rae. Mr.

Moran should have done more research for his story because he obviously did not

cover the story well or give an accurate picture of how wonderful, helpful, and

pioneering Dr. Rae is. I think ABC owes it to the public and to Dr. Rae to run

another program showing in totality the benefits of Dr. Rae's treatments and the

findings behind them.

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FMSMOM 3:14 AM Mark As Violation

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Recently I learned that my apartment has moisture damage. Since learning this

and what it entails, my life has started making sense for the first time in a

decade. Mine is a long and complex story. I will try and keep to the key points.

There have been a number of " unexplained " health issues with both my kids and I,

esp. my 6 yr old son. I know this will come as no surprise to those that have

experience with EI, he was recently dx with PDD-NOS an autism spectrum disorder.

He's had resp. probs (asthma- 2 meds every day, the croup and pneumonia several

times a year) I am 35 yrs old and the last 10 yrs of my life have almost been a

blur. When I moved in here in '98, those that knew me would have agreed that I

was a bright, driven, healthy, young single mother. I had a f/t job, I was a f/t

student pursuing my degree in cognitive studies, I had an active social life,

hobbies..etc. Within a few months of living here...I was sick all the time. I

was constantly diagnosed with the " flu " or some other virus ...I learned rather

quickly if a doctor can see symptoms, but can't figure out a reason for them via

test results...then it is diagnosed as a virus. I was tired all the time. In

fact I had to sleep during my lunch breaks because I was actually dozing off at

my desk. I was achy and miserable nearly all the time. Within a yr of moving

here I could no longer hold a job (I had been working since I was 17). At 27 I

had to go on SSDI and my health problems have just gotten worse from there. In

fact I am so sensitive to so many things that pure OXYGEN is on my allergy list.

This all seems perfectly acceptable to the pharma-docs. Due to the limit on

here, I can't even begin to list every dx/med I've received in the last 10 yrs.

This IS the problem...people that are sick... like we are...are not heard. Not

by their doctors, employers, friends, families, the public or anyone that might

be able to help them...many times until it is too late.

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It has become clear to me that the current host of diseases are symptoms of

systemic degeneration based on exposures, and once given a Diagnosis the

medication creates side effect symptoms which are often treated as seperate

diseases themselves. Then another pill for that. The reality is those with

impaired lung function for whatever reason {Mostly Environmental} need to live

next to a body of water, Incorporate Vinegar into Diet and be equiped with

special light bulbs to suppress particulate matter, and balance humidity

indoors, Oxygen at night is also most benecial. SO FAR BOTH SIDES HAVE FAILED IN

MY BOOK.. If you seem to have alot of dust in your home and are dried out alot.

Clean thoroughly with wet processes no Sweeping. I hope this makes sense They

can keep there pills and there porcelain. If I am having breathing problems why

would they dialate my bronchial passages before doing home air testing. If

environment is bad a Dialator will allow deeper penetration of pollutants if not

eliminated at time of treatment. The same is true outdoors exercising. Then I

will really need the inhaler, and a nebulizer, and an anti inflammatory, then

some more steroids, then I'll be depressed or get paranoid someone is trying to

kill me. Oh no now I'm Schizo, can't breath o I know now lets tell the family I

have a rare bacteria. Give me a break.

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Twenty-seven years ago, I got in the path of an agricultural spray plane. I

don't know what the pilot was spraying with, didn't even know then how to find

out, or who to call. But that episode ended my normal life, and began my life as

someone with chemical sensitivities. Suddenly I became reactive to foods I'd

always eaten, perfumes I'd always worn, cleaning solutions I'd always cleaned

with, and I began to lose weight I wasn't trying to lose. Weeks went by, with me

getting no better, and my doctor puzzled, but having known me all my life, he

knew it wasn't psychological. Thanks to my aunt reading an article about a woman

with similar problems in Missouri, and sending that article to me, I gave the

woman a call, and she gave Dr. Rea a call. Within 20 minutes, Dr. Rea had called

me, and made room for me to get an appointment and start treatment. (How many

extremely busy doctors do you know who drop everything and make a call to you?!)

My family put me on a private plane, and my husband told my children to give me

a hug because I most likely wouldn't be coming back home, and then he and I flew

to Dallas. It took several years to undo the physical damage, but I lead a

nearly normal life today. No one who sees me would guess that I have MCS. I have

to be careful about where I go, what I eat, and particularly about lawn and

agricultural chemicals. Dr. Rea didn't make room for me in his clinic that day

out of greed, because Dr. Rea had all the patients he could handle that week. He

made room for me because he knew I needed the help, and he saw to it that I

received it. Thanks to Dr. Rea I survived to raise my 5 yr old and 6 yr old

children, and now have grandchildren that age. Thank you, Dr. Rea!

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Socks6161 2:46 AM Mark As Violation

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God bless America, land of the Lemming.

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Rex Life 2:33 AM Mark As Violation

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I don't understand the doctors these days! They say that they want to find a

cure but only on the terms if the government is involved thats right the F.D.A,

so you tell me why is it that the F.D.A. comes out with these drugs that are

only approved by them because they want to control the consumers into thinking

that in order to get a good drug you have to have it approved by food and drug.

So why is it that when they do find a drug that works nine times out of ten the

drug has a side effect or it can't be taken with some other problem you have

whatever it may be. I will tell you why the drugs are synthetic and most people

know this already, natural l drug user know this to be true because they

switched to using them and saw good results.I will tell you first hand that I

don't take a flu shot ever since i took one back in ninety- eight because when i

did take it i was very sick for 2 or 3 months, so since ninety- eight i never

took a flue shot i didn't take one this year. like you always hear from your

doctors wash your hands get into a habit because my kids have been around when

there sick and a lot of other people as well and i don't as a part washing my

hands i take digestive enzymes and other natural things. You would be amazed

what viruses,and things that live in our digestive tract,I take enzymes you

don't have to take them all the time but i take raw apple cider vinegar a table

spoon of that in orange juice and my upset stomach,and or heart is gone i don't

take tums or pepto and a ant acid tablet or liquid or even go to the doctor i

know people that took the raw apple cider vinegar and there acid reflux is cured

you go to any G.N.C. store and get these natural items or products. this is not

an advertisement for G.N.C. store this is just a guy that wants to let people

know there is an alternate natural drug that works and in some cases cures the

problem.

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ctics 2:28 AM Mark As Violation

Those of us who support Dr. Rea's work need to rally and write emails and

letters to the Texas Board of Health. That is what I'm going to do. Let's start

an email petition of some kind - backing his practice of environmental medicine.

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I live in AZ and suffer from MCS. It is a real condition -not in our heads. I've

been waiting to go to Texas to get Dr. Rea's help and now he might be stopped

from helping the sickest of the sick? It's outrageous. Our lives are already

next to impossible to live because very few people believe in what we have. I

predict that 20 years from now,nwhen many more people are ill like we are

because we've so polluted our world with chemicals, the naysayers and

nonbelievers will eat their words. Perhaps a few of them will get what we have

and then they will feel what its like to be truly sick and have no where to turn

because help was taken away.

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hrgirlinaz 2:10 AM Mark As Violation

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Digital Dave. You contradict yourself. Hooray for Dr. Rea? You stated the

Mercury in your fillings was what was hurting you, and Dr. Rea is injecting

people with Mercury. Horror, not hooray.

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Rex Life 2:07 AM Mark As Violation

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No harm meant, but what about Investigative Reporter Ross taking this

apart? I know when he gets through, some laws should be changed on this matter.

I am ready to testify. That was some show and I am glad Dr. Rae had the

exposure. We needed that and need that now. You wonder why your children are

sick? Sick Building Syndrome hasn't gone away. We need to address this!!! People

out here need help. Dr. Rae is no quack. There is nothing Pseudo about this at

all. Tell us where to go?

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whoomplumper 2:03 AM Mark As Violation

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To the jerks attacking Dr Rea, God forbid that you ever face such a horrible

illness. What an insult to accuse all w/ chemical sensitivities of being mental.

My husband & I were poisoned by toxic mold & deadly mycotoxin called

trichothecene, used in biowarfare. We fight to live,..multiple organ damage,

serious burns, bleeding eyes, unimaginable pain, multiple chemical sensitivity.

MCS is recognized by the SSA, American Disabilties Act, EPA and HUD with appox.

36.5 million Americans suffering & more than 5.2 million at risk of losing their

jobs as a result. I talk to parents w/ children suffering ungodly pain from such

toxins. Photos of my burns from toxins , neurological injury,mold info on my

website www.myspace.com/faceoftoxicmold I admire Dr. Rea & others for courage to

speak out. It's time for other Drs. to open their minds & hearts. Just because

you don't understand an illness doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I wrote a song

called Break The Mold. It's on my site..Many Drs. need to LISTEN to the words.

God bless you Dr. Rea. We support you 110%.

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faceoftoxicmold 2:01 AM Mark As Violation

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I have to comment again, after reading the latest comments. If someone tells you

to inject any Mercury into your body, you need to run out of their office and

never go back. You may feel good now while your body is trying to fight it off,

but as it builds up, in a couple years, don't be surprised when you end up dying

in the hospital. Injecting small quantities of natural allergens makes sense,

it's the same as the injections they give children, to prevent disease. Not

heavy metals, like Mercury, they are almost impossible to get out of your body.

You will never sweat them out. I believe in and use alternative medicine, but

please don't do anything until you do your homework. Better nothing than

something bad. There are some good doctors out there, but the majority are just

out for the money. Most people want a television that mutes during commercials,

I want a television that mutes during the drug (pusher) commercials. If you want

to save America, sell off your Pharma stock, and show them who is really in

charge of this country, the people. Cigarette companies cannot advertise, but an

erection pill can? How bizarre. Europe has banned Flouride, but we have it in

our tap water. We banned DDT, but still produce it and sell it to countries like

Mexico to spray their crops. Do you know where most of your vegetables come

from? Mexico. Ignorance is bliss, but it will eventually kill you.

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Rex Life 1:59 AM Mark As Violation

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Hooray for Dr. Rea!I was told by my family doctor that I should talk to a

psychiatrist, because he believed that I was stressed, not sick due to something

else. I was tested for more than a year....test after test proved every

parameter was normal.The real problem turned out to be mercury poisoning from my

dental fillings. I had my dental fillings removed and my symptoms began to

slowly disappear. I used several forms of " detoxing " like those that Dr. Rea

advocates... to remove the mercury that was stored in the body... mainly in the

nervous system. Wow!...I was not stressed mentally after all, just heavy metal

poisoned.I will bet that many of the thirty thousand people that the allergy

Doctor says needed psychiatric help, more than likely had sought the help of a

Mental Health Professional without success.I do not want the government or any

medical society telling me what kind of treatment I can use to help me get

well.If Dr. Rea was a " quack " you would have been interviewing the many people

that were " duped " by his many treatments.I did not see or hear of one. He is a

Doctor who has found treatments to help many people get well or able to live a

better life.Thank You Dr. Rea for helping to educate the public.Digital Dave

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I am a board-certified physician (MD) trained at Harvard Medical School, and I

am convinced that Environmental Illness is real. We now know that some

individuals have identifiable genetic defects in enzymes in the liver's

detoxification system, so that they are unable to eliminate from their bodies

the ubiquitous chemicals to which the rest of us manage to adapt. When their

total body burden of toxicity becomes high, symptoms of chemical sensitivity

appear. These patients do not have allergies, as we were taught to think of them

in medical school; they have inborn errors of metabolism resulting in real

biochemical illness. I have read Dr. Rea's published research; his treatment

modalities are based on physiology and biochemistry and they are scientifically

sound to the extent of the research available. They point us to areas where

clinical trials are needed. I have also met Dr. Rea and seen his facilities. The

principles of treatment which he teaches are avoidance of incitants, lowering

the total body burden of toxicity through sauna and exercise, repleting vitamins

and nutrients which have become deficient in the overburdened detox pathways,

and desensitizing the patient to inciting antigens. Dr. Rea actively promotes

scientific research and board certification in Environmental Medicine. However,

I am a primary care internist; I am not trained in and do not practice

Environmental Medicine. But I have seen many patients with this clinical

syndrome who came to me for help in primary care, and I am embarassed to say

that I used to think they were crazy, too. In fact, most of these patients did

not meet criteria for a psychiatric diagnosis at all. Interviewing some of Dr.

Rea's patients convinced me to look further. I will admit that Dr. Rea is not

his own most articulate advocate, but I believe he is a pioneer and on to

something important, and his field is a valid one for serious study.

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MDinBoston 1:57 AM Mark As Violation

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ABC NightLine: You are on to something that could be just the tip of a very

large iceberg. Namely, the insidious accumulation of substances and chemicals,

toxic and otherwise, in our bodies as well as the increasing incidence of

allergy and sensitivity to these substances and chemicals. Unfortunately,

instead of approaching this issue scientificially and objectively, you choose to

run a piece that seemed to cast a well-meaning, though scientifically misguided,

physician in a very bad light and also insinuated that the type of patients who

would visit such a physician are mentally ill. I do not buy the Big Pharma

conspiracy that many of the people who have written here believe. But I can

understand how they would come to believe it after dealing with physicians who

simply don't have the time or compassion to more thoroughly search out

environmental causes for their symptoms. When that happens, desperate patients

will turn to anyone who extends the compassion, even if they are not following

the same general protocols as the mainstream medical establishment. I believe it

would behoove ABC to revisit this subject with an open mind and complete

objectivity. I believe we'll eventually come to find that many of vague

complaints that some patients have, that can't be readily pinned down or are not

responsive to conventional treatments, will be found to have chronic

environmental exposures as their root cause. After all, recently, it has come to

light that there are pharmaceuticals in drinking water. I would be surprised if

they weren't when you consider that vast amount of medicatiosn that we humans

consume, the byproducts of which find their way into sewage and probably escape

effective removal. Again, not surprising since sewage treatment was never

designed to rid sewage of drugs in its urine and fecal components. Again, this

is the tip of the iceberg.

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Texas has a vested interest in protecting its petroleum industries and the

products they produce. So, therefore, they want to remove a reputable pioneering

MD who is saying the products they produce are making millions of us sick. Does

any one see a connection here? I am chemically injured and believe me, it is NOT

all in my head! If so, the psychiatrist I was forced to see before any one would

believe me would have been able to help me. Oh, that it were that easy to get

well again! Years ago I worked in a TB sanitariium and the question was, " why

are there 6-7 persons in a house and only 1-2 get TB when all of them were

exposed? " The same is true now with chemicals. Some peoples bodies can handle

the load and some can not. The allergist on the show needs to go back to school

and study toxicology. He would find there is a world of difference between an

allergy and a chemical intolerance. I sure am glad he is not one of my

doctors!posted by cryszoecat

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My husband is a patient of Dr. Rea and has been helped tremendously. We traveled

to Dallas after 4 years under the care of several board-certified allertists.

All they did was fill him full of drugs, treating symptoms, not the

problem--allegra, zyrtec, singulair, xantac, and finally Cyclosporin!!! (highly

potent drug used to suppress the immune systems of organ transplant patients)

When we express concern about the Cyclosporin the doctor replied, 'You're in

your fifties, you'll die before you take enough of this stuff to hurt you. . .

To add insult to injury, none of the drugs helped much. Dr. Rea helped in a week

and alot of it is common sense. Yes, my husband saunas to detox. Since when is

the fact that sweating helps detoxify questionable??? Two weeks of Oxygen

therapy took his venous blood gas from 65% to 43%--meaning his body is utilizing

more of the oxygen in the air he breaths. This and natural supplements (found at

any health food store) are all helping to rebuild his immune system. In

addition, he takes allergy shots prescribed by Dr. Rea (histamine and seratonin)

to control his allergic reactions and, after one month, is having to take the

shots less and less. I don't have room to tell the entire story, but is MUCH

better. I think it is prettly ignorant not to look at the chemical world we live

in and recognize the fact that it is hurting us. Doesn't it make sense that the

body would have a hard time with anything artificial and that if ingested with

too much, would not be able to filter it out and develop sensitivities or

diseases--anybody at Nightline ever heard of asbestos?????

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I guess (according to your allergy expert) I had a psychological response to the

lacquer stain that I was using in 1984. My psychological response included

nausea, headache, breathing difficulty, and vomiting. Fortunately, for me, the

poison control center labeled it a chemical poisoning incident, and told me the

protocol for dealing with a chemical overload. It was clear to me that what I

was experiencing was not in my mind, but in my body. Shortly after the poisoning

I moved into a new house and my health declined. I saw many doctors and

experienced various symptoms but no one could reverse my declining health. After

13 years of struggling to understand what was going on in my body, I finally

found a doctor who knew what I suffered from. I was given the diagnosis of MCS

by an allergist. I didnâ€™t know what that meant but I knew what my symptoms

were. I would experience headaches from perfumes, nausea from bathroom cleaners,

and breathing problems from pine cleaners. I also experienced muscle spasms, and

muscle sprains. Through the years I have seen 5 different doctors all of whom

affirmed my diagnosis of MCS. All 5 treated me, and some helped more than

others. It wasnâ€™t until I saw Dr. Rae that I began to see major improvements.

All I ask of those who do not understand or believe that my condition exsists is

â€œDo No Harm.â€ Dr. Rae has helped me without harming me. He is a pioneer, not

unlike Louis Pasteur. The conventional medical community believed that Pasteur

was wrong, but today we understand his true brilliance. As in many areas of

medicine anecdotal evidence from patients is critical to assessing the success

of any given protocol, and for me Dr. Raeâ€™s protocol is helping me regain my

health.

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I worked at a chemical plant where a leak occurred. My nose bled for three days

and the metal dental work " melted " into the gums, tissue and bones in the top

palate of my mouth. I wonder if the allergist would say that was caused by an

underlying " psychological problem " or would he say that is a physical injury

caused by chemicals? I lived, but now, any exposure to fumes causes an adverse

physical reaction such as swelling, inflammation, pain, etc. which starts in

that same area of the initial injury. There is a well-known physical medical

problem called " Toxic Inhalation Injury " that can be caused by chemicals. Teens

are getting toxic inhalation injury from inhaling air fresheners and other

aerosols in their homes to get " high " . I wonder how many of them (who also don't

die from that initial inhalation exposure to those chemicals in the aerosols)

are left with chemical sensitivity because of the damage to nerves, etc.? There

is also a well-known physical medical problem " Chemical Pneumonia " which can be

caused by chlorine and ammonia and that doesn't matter about enzyme deficiency -

it is toxic for anyone. Chlorine and ammonia are in many cleaning products and

they are toxic. My grandmother got chemical pneumonia from using ammonia and a

chlorine product. She didn't die from that initial exposure, but now, when she

is around perfume, or diesel, or other chemical fumes she has an asthma attack

and her sinuses are hurt easily. I would say that is a chemical injury that has

left her chemically sensitive.

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ChemInj999 1:41 AM Mark As Violation

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Terry Moran's story did a great disservice to all who suffer illness from over

exposure to modern day chemicals. Are those who suffer depressed? Many are, but

anyone who is a social being who has to isolate themselves from society to avoid

the effects that exposures have on their bodies would be; just as an injured

soldier confined to a wheel chair might feel. I believe the depression and other

psychologial problems are more an effect of the illness than a cause. I would be

interested to know if the doctors that attach Dr Rae are paid to test

medications from pharmacutical companies. Bayer may make many miracle drugs

along with aspirin, but they also make chemicals like Dursban that has made many

ill; Ortho may make birth control pills and other medications, but they also

make many lawn chemicals that are known to cause neuro problems. Unless and

until a real study is done without their influence, there will be no answer,

only people who are truly suffering.Was is really so long ago that CFS, Fibro,

Ulcers, epilepsy, MS, TB, diabetes, etc. were thought to be psychosomatic??When

I was young in the 50s I was told my asthma was mostly my nerves! How many must

die from such a nervous condition before it is really studied properly. I

challenge ABC (GMA, Charlie and nighline) to ask for input from those who are

made ill by fragrances, lawn chemicals, solvents, cleaning chemicals etc. Nearly

all that I have had contact with were very hard working professional people

before becoming sick - not the malingerers that we are made out to be. Does Dr

Nagy do any research for pharma companies that he gets paid for??? Are they

companies that might worry about Tort Law if found responsible for making people

ill?? I wonder.Also Terry, Look up Vocal Chord Dysfunction at the National Jewis

Medical Center in Denver. I belive that might be a small part of the problem for

many of us.

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If all of us suffering from chemical sensitivity/enviro toxins make enough

noise, maybe Nighline will cover it on a regular basis. Reporter Donvan

covers autism on a regular basis and I know personally that he is a decent guy.

Maybe he would take on the beat - after all there are toxin/environmental links

to autism. Echoing what one of the previous posters said, it is thought that as

kids autistics get filled with too many toxins.

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moldkills 1:32 AM Mark As Violation

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I believe that Terry Moran's story was very bias and a great diservice to all

who suffer from exposure to our contaminated environment. I challenge ABC news

to ask all who have felt ill from fragrances, lawn chemicals, idustrial solvents

etc to stand up and be counted. Bayer may make aspirin but they also make

Dursban that made many ill, Ortho may make birth control pills, but also lawn

chemicals. If the tobacco industry had as big a stake in the medical field they

would have had doctors to fight off research too. Was it really so long ago that

CFS, Fibro, epilepsy, MS, TB, ulcers and diabetes were considered

psychosomatic?? Is it proof that something is real and it's mechanism that

validates it or that a profitable treatment has been discovered.

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I have always wanted to study the affects of various chemicals and natural

elements that effect us pscologically. I think the nay-saying Dr (underlying

psycological condition) has it exactly backward. My psychiatrist JUST confirmed

and finally acknowledged that I am very chemically sensitive, including to the

chemicals my own body makes. I get headaches when talking on cell phones, I get

a racing heart after sitting in one place for an hour, i get light-headed, am

unable to focus my eyes, dissorientation, etc. and I keep hearing 'panic attac'

- but i didn't feel panicky. We know that pollens, dust, etc cause change -

where's the stretch?Thank you DR. NAGY for the info, I will be following up.

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How dare you...HOW DARE THAT 'ALLERGY' DOCTOR(?) question, not only Dr Rhea, BUT

HIS PATIENTS TOO ! About ten years ago, my school had an exterminator go through

the bldg ,after school was out, to 'do their thing'. They started at the

lunchroom and ended in my room because his trk was parked right outside my door.

The 'new person' with that company did NOT know what he was doing and when he

'ran out' of the spray, he went out to his trk and took all the 'empty bottles'

of different chemicals and he put them in his sprayer and came back in to my

classroom and finished his day. I went to school but kept getting sicker . After

major hives and throat swelling, ER ,my reg MD didn't know what to do. A brother

told me about Rae. It took months but I am MUCH better; I've learned what my

triggers are and stay away from them, as much as possible in this world. Do you

realize that when you awake in the morning we all put chemicals in our bodies?

Toothpaste, gargle, makeup, hairspray, aftershave, colas, prepared food. We wash

with soap; our clothes cleaned with chemicals. You KNOW the fumes in a new car?

Even THOSE bother some people. That doesn't make them'mental'. Theres LOTS of

things in the air & water that we don't have control over. EX: if one has 'peanut

allergies' is it in his head? NO...he has a 'reaction' to it. Why would that

(IDIOT) Allergist say " WE have mental problems " ?Do we want 'closed minded'

doctors? I sure DON'T. Dr Rea is a BLESSING. ABC should have presented this in a

better way...you cast doubt and slander! Think of a rain barrel. When it's full,

it over-flows. Our bodies do also. Once you stop putting the wrong things in it,

you'll do better...when your system is toxic, it will react to more things, even

tho they might not bother you as much in 'normal circumstances'. I'd like to say

A LOT MORE but I can only use 2000 words. ABC, contact Rea's patients and let

ALL of US tell and show you THE REAL TRUTH.

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What is happening to Dr. Rea is a modern day lynching. I thank God for Dr. Rea

and physicians like him who are willing and able to 'think out of the box.' Did

we forget that this is how huge, significant discoveries are made? With the

increase of food allergies, autism and a variety of auto immune diseases I

applaud a doctor who is willing to search for a solution and possible cure. The

real criminal is Doctor Kahn the Allergist who believes that mental illness is

'under diagnosed' in this country! If that wasn't such an ignorant statement it

would almost be laughable! I pity his patients- they are probably being over

treated for mental illnesses! This issue is similar to the issue of the doctor

who first discovered that ulcers were caused by a bacteria and not stress or

spicy foods as previously thought. Not only did he nearly lose his medical

license, but he was laughed out of the medical community for years by his peers

for 'thinking out of the box.' Now his treatment is a standard protocol for

ulcers and didn't he just receive a Nobel Prize for this discovery!? So why is

the Texas Board of Medicine trying to 'lynch' Dr. Rea. Do they have something to

gain financially or politically? Or do they just like keeping the public in the

dark and limiting our treatment options....perhaps those involved will think

differently when someone in their family develops chemical sensitivity or some

other immune disease.

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THIS IS DR. NAGY FROM THE SHOW TONIGHT. I am thrilled with the presentation and

we should all thank Nightline for their diligence. They made it interesting for

the audience (a key factor) yet sympathetic to the environmental patient and

physician. I thought it let the audience decide who looked believable and kind

and who looked judgmental and uncaring. I think the more people who write in and

say they have EI from a specific exposure that it will be noted tomorrow night

on the show as well. Let all patients and physicians know to make a brief

statement without too much hostility so they can see how many people are out

there with this condition and how not 'crazy' we are! further info at my website

www.environmentalmedicineinfo.com, FIND A DOCTOR AT www.AAEM.COM, or Bill Rea at

www.EHCD.COM. I am giving a talk in Cleveland in May, New York in October,

Washington DC in a few months and need patients to make an appearance for the

audience to see our numbers. Contact me if you can make it - mask and all!

@...

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lisanagyMD 1:11 AM Mark As Violation

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I tried to post but this site wouldn't let me write what I wanted...I suggest we

all call or email Nightline's sponsors and boycott their products.Terry Moran is

ignorant and I despise that smart a^^ smirk and the condescending tone he used

against Dr. Rae.Big Pharma owns the FDA, CDC, Texas Medical Board, most doctors,

Congress and the media. Anytime their profits are threatened, doctors get

attacked and suffer.These illnesses are recognized and treated the same way in

every country except for the US. Those countries don't have BIG PHARMA RUNNING

the show.These are legitimate illnesses. I have them too. In fact, I can't even

have medically necessary surgery because of my drug allergies, and drug reaction

(chemically sensitive).ABC is disgusting...I also suggest we boycott the

network, the show and 20/20..remember Stossel's show about the dangers of

vitamins and supllements? More BIG Pharma and FDA BS!

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I know many people suffering from mold and toxins will be reading these comments

and want to share a good resource I found the other night -

www.betterhealthguy.com - the Web owner actually suffered from Lyme Disease but

there are many similarities. Read the " Mold " section -

http://www.betterhealthguy.com/index.php?option=com_content & task=view & id=62 & Item\

id=80for an explanation about why some of us are more affected than others.

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I AM PSYCO, ok. I have had bad PMS since I started my period but that was just

an excuse not to go to school or the doctor would not believe how bad it was for

me..today is called dysmenorrhea. I was not allergic until I turned about 7 when

a doctor corrected my mother who thought that I had a very long cold. I was not

asthmatic until I turned 22 and I thought i hyperventilating. I was not allergic

to the perservatives in wine until I about 5 years ago when a doctor at Mayo

asked me when was that I was sneezing more and I told him that it was at my

sister's house and she had already stopped using the room deodorizers so I could

be ok, but still happened right after we started cooking and were drinking some

wine. And I never had problems with the perfumes that I like until about 10

years ago. I dont mind when is perfumes that I dont like, but the ones that I

like??? even the baby powder deodorant or the ones with fruity escense would

irritate me to the extreme of getting asthma if too strong. My mother has an

excuse to be ignorant and remain ignorant since she only went to 9th grade, but

doctors should look at all possibilities and alternatives before saying that MCS

is a psycological problems. I would love to be able to smell the perfumes that I

like and to eat the things that I love and to be able to go everywhere without

fear of getting an asthma attack and dying like other people in the world(not

only in the US). Or is he also ignorant about all the asthmatic people that die

due to allergies? may be we have more interest to learn than doctors like this,

but this is the same that persons with Lou Gerick desease and other new deseases

went throught, they all had supposely psycological problems that made their

bodies, brains and nerves degenerate and who kept on looking for others to work

with them until somebody found the source and started looking for treatments. I

am just glad that I never had to deal with this doctor. He is as sad as any

addicts, ignorant...

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JASHY1 12:58 AM Mark As Violation

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It is a reckless form of skepticism to diagnose and dismiss 30,000 patients you

have never seens as having a mental imbalance simply because a disease is not

well understood. We saw this with chronic faitgue immune disfuntion syndrome,

which is often characterized by severe immunolgical problems, chronic viral

infections, low IGG levels, low killer cells levels, and more. and the CDC even

had to sumbit a press release educating phsycisans on the very real physioligcal

and genetic anomalies in CFIDS. We also saw this with fibromyagia, a crippling

pain disease that is finally getting validated by research. Cleary medicine has

not come far from the days of diagnosing hysteria. I was also disturbed that the

reporter did not look at current research showing the physiological rather than

psychological etiology to this disease. Genetic research has shown genetic

variations in this population's ability to detoxify xenobiotics. Similar genetic

variations have been shown in autism, which is relevant to this argument given

the recent groundbreaking ruling acknowledging a connection between vaccines and

autism in one young girl, whose father, an M.D. PhD, has argued the possible

genetic susceptible of certain children to certain environmental exposure.

Regardless of whether someone considers Dr. Rea's treatment reckless or whether

the medical community yet understands this disease, it does not repudiate its

existance. And it is much more reckless to dismiss 30,000 unseen patients as

mentally ill. Would this doctor also say the head of Salvation Army, who was

treated by Dr. Rea after being chemically poisoned at Ground Zero and cited by

the Dallas Morning News as crediting Dr. Rea for saving his life, crazy as well?

Would he call me crazy despite the fact I have documented low IGG levels,

chronic accute EBV/CMV, elevated liver enzymes and many of these very real

manifestions of CFIDS and environmental illness? Call me crazy, but that seems

pretty reckless and unsubstantiated.

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ninnaloo 12:56 AM Mark As Violation

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I have a teenage son who is extremely chemical sensitive to where his lungs are

almost constantly burning and he is short of breath on a daily basis. I know of

an 18 month old baby who went into a coma from a fragrance dryer sheet. I know

several other children who are suffering.We need to keep in mind about the story

of Ignaz Semmelweis, â€œsaviour of mothersâ€ a doctor of a obstetrician clinic

who was condemned by the medical establishment for suggesting to wash hands

between patients. Many women died from puerperal fever simply because doctors

did not believe in this simple practice of washing your hands. Ignaz was

chastized by his peers, and commited to an aslyum and died 14 days later after

being beaten to death. Is Dr. Rea going to be our â€œIgnazâ€? I want to tell

you right now, perfumes and chemicals are big business. If we admit that there

are health issues from exposures to these products, then we are going to make a

lot of people unhappy in the big corporations. This is a major issue that is

being swept under the rug. There are homeless people that are multiple chemical

sensitive, they live in the desert or near springs where the air is pure.

Chemical injured or sensitive people are now called â€œThe canaryâ€™s of our

environmentâ€. They are sensitive to what most of us are not able to detect. I

challenge you to go six months without chemicals and perfumes in your home. Then

go to the grocery store and buy milk. You can smell and taste a perfume in

almost anything that is porus that has been in the store, including milk. You

donâ€™t know that these chemicals from these perfumed cleaners are leaking in

your food. You are used to them and can't taste them.Please visit these two

websites: www.nofragrances.org (currently down) and www.safecosmetics.org and

make your own conclusions.By the way, in Dr. Raeâ€™s defense, you can find jet

fuel in mothers milk. Another environmental problem! I will testify on his

behalf and for all those suffering.

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mynews05 12:54 AM Mark As Violation

He is amazing! He is not pushing pills for the Pharmaceutical Companies, that

destroy the liver and kidneys. Of course, they want to stop him. It is all about

money. There are many treatments that work that are not allowed in this country.

Hummmnnn, wonder why?

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ccl4208 12:52 AM Mark As Violation

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My sister was treated by Dr. Rae in the mid 1980s when she was in her 40s. She

went from a normal, healthy mother to a sick woman, diagnosed with

schizophrenia, doing very bizarre things, totally out of control. I noticed the

dramatic change in her because I did not get to see her very often. Luckily, she

found a psychiatrist who believed in her because he had the same condition. She

was completely normal before she became sick, no evidence of any type of mental

illness. When she was at her worst, I saw her drank some wine and go totally

berserk â€“ she was sensitive to something in the wine.It has been a long and

very difficult road for her. By avoiding the things she is allergic to, she is

able to lead a somewhat normal life, but she is medically fragile. She is

allergic to most medications. If it were not for Dr. Rae, she would be in a

mental institution somewhere or else a street person living on the edge of

society.Because of my sister, I sought out an Environmental Illness doctor in

Washington DC. I visited him for about a year, and gave myself injections

containing things that I was allergic to. I had had regular allergy injects

about 5 years earlier for about 3 years. The difference between the 2 different

types of allergy injections was the amount of the allergen contained in the

injections. Those given to me by the Environmental Illness doctor contained just

a fraction of the allergen contained in the other allergy injections, and were

actually much more effective. I personally think we are poisoning our

environment and that we will see more Environmental Illness. We need to clean up

our environment, and do research on how to treat those sensitive to things in

our environment. It is no accident that our children are plagued by allergies,

more than their parents and grandparents. It is only going to get worse.

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hkreitan 12:52 AM Mark As Violation

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Being doctors are the third cause of death in this country, no wonder people go

to alternative doctors. What I heard discussed on the show makes me believe Dr.

Rae is a quack. It is a fact that toxins build up in the body, specifically the

fat tissue and the colon. The more fat the more problems, so eat healthy and

loose some weight. Everyone, including doctors, think allergies are part of the

sinuses and that is what gets medicated, not cured. Allergies actually start in

your colon and once full, then you get the sinus symptoms. All you need is a

strong colon cleanser, from your local health food store, and you will not need

the medicine. I have tested this on friends with allergies and it always works,

including allergies to pet dander. Why would pumping your body full of chemical

drugs fix allergies? It's ridiculous, because they build up in your fat tissue

and colon also. Not all cases, but most drugs just alleviate the symptoms, never

curing the problem.If you want to see something terrifying, read the Flouride

warning on your toothpaste and then check out your local tap water report. If

you don't run your water through a reverse osmosis machine or a distiller before

you drink it, I feel sorry for you. Just search Toxic Flouride on the internet.

Oh, and stop feeding your kids fast food. A life of convenience is usually a

short one.Best wishes,Rex Love

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Rex Life 12:50 AM Mark As Violation

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Has anyone ever heard of Doris Rapp, M.D.? Google her. She has a great book that

talks about env. allergies called Is This Your Child. This story really ticked

me off. It is Dr.'s like that Allergist that make people go crazy with

frustration. I hope his patients got to see his true colors tonight and will not

return.

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lisa0477 12:48 AM Mark As Violation

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I thank ABC for the coverage, but could not help but notice that the first ad to

follow the story was for Promeris, a flea treatment that acts on the Central

Nervous System, produced by Fort Dodge Animal Health, a division of Wyeth. Of

coarse many patients with multiple chemical sensitivity got sick because of

organophosphates or other chemicals acting on the Central Nervous System.

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constantwater 12:42 AM Mark As Violation

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So it's all in our heads. Really? It's exactly that kind of attitude that has

doped up our once lively society. This fix-it-with-a-pill thinking is lazy,

pathetic. I also have a big problem with someone telling what kind of medical

treatment I can choose. So what if I go to a doctor to detox my body? This is

against the law? Saunas are unlawful? Taking oxygen is illegal? Someone better

tell the spas down the street. They shake their heads, scoff and shun Dr. Rea,

trying to drive him away. As I recall, they did the same to Dr. Lister who

suggested that washing hands between patients would be beneficial. Dr. Judah

Folkman was scorned for decades for his work on cancer. I say you might just be

in good company Dr. Rea. Thank you for thinking outside the box, and having the

care and courage to practice. My fear is that these doctors, who are hard to

find already, will be persecuted out of practice. That alternative is

frightening.

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Reader08 12:41 AM Mark As Violation

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I am currently suffering from toxic mold poisoning. I find that common medical

doctors do not know how to treat or define mold poisoning. Instead they pump you

up with yet more toxic medicines making the existing problem worse. My dog died

from the mold recently and the courts are telling me I am not sick that my dog

did not die as a direct result of mold poisoning even though the house we lived

in turnes out to be massively contaminated with stachyborrys, aspergillum,

penicillum cladium and many other toxic molds. I was calle dmy a doctor friend

in Houston while your show was on the air in Dallas. The lady speaks the truth.

MOLD KILLS. ITS A SILENT KILLER AND GENERAL PRACTIONERS AND REGULAR MEDICAL

PHYSICIANS ARE NOT TRAINED TO DETECT, ACKNOWLEDGE NOT DEFINE NOR TREAT THE

PRESENCE OF MOLD IN A SICK PERSON FROM THE EFFECTS OF MOLD. You need an

allergist like Dr. Rea. he can and will help. I have never seen him personally

but my Dr., Dr. roger Katz in Santa , Ca. is also an allergist and ONLY HE

HAS DEFINED, TREATED, AND IS HELPING ME WITH THE MASSIVE EFFECTS OF MOLD

POISONING. LADIES CHECK YOUR KITCHEN. LOOK UNDER YOUR SINK WHERE THE SINK

TOUCHED THE WALL. IF THERE IS ANYTHING BLACK THERE, TAKE YOUR FAMILY AND RUN.

PARENTS WHOSE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH A.D.D., THEY GENERALLY HAVE MOLD

POISONING, BUT BECAUSE THESE DRUG PUSHING DOCTORS ARE TOO PROUD TO TELL YOU THEY

DO NOT KNOW HOW TO HEAL OR HELP YOU, INSTEAD, THEY SEND YOU ON TO OTHER GENERAL

PRACTIONERS LIKE THEM. MEANWHILE, WHILE YOUR INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE PAYING

THESE DOCTORS YOU ARE NOT BEING HEALED. BUT THEY ARE NOT TO PROUD TO TELL YOU

THEY ARE PRACTICING. IS THIS WHY THEY WANT US TO BE PATIENT?

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susie6ft 12:36 AM Mark As Violation

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This guy is a pioneer. I was watching the cover and I could not believe the

skepticism of the reporter. The board's lawyer received more credit than the MD.

Ridiculous!No offense, but how often do you take your sick children your lawyer?

Because I still prefer the MD.I am profoundly and sincerely convinced that Mr.

Rea is onto something excellent. At different points in my life I have come to

experience physical discomfort due to the environment. While Ms. is a bit

extreme, I don't think her approach illustrates best the results of

environmental medicine. Like religion - it's a good concept, but religious

extremists have never taken us far, have they?In response to the other alergy

MD's claims on injecting w/ jet fuel and stress and psychiatric disorders vs

environmental med. Please let him know that psychiatric disorders ARE

environmental. And if he's not convinced, well it takes practice not a paper

certification.I have a better Lithmus Test for Mr. Rea's medicine. Please send

Britney Spears (who is a byproduct of media bullying and social

pre-/miss-conception, thirst for scandal and desire to find someone

who-is-doing-even-worse-than-me.). Well have her " environmentally treated " . I am

betting my 401k funds that it will be a grande success story.Now if

farmaceutical compaines or a lawery, or a jealous co-medic have an issue w/ Mr.

Rea, well I'm then going for the good all common sense approach. I think the

media should do their hw instead of pointing the fingers in opposite direction

of the money. We'll all get old with or without money, won't we?If they the

state board of medicine has an issue with this clinic I think they should open

their own clinic and research the medical approach and its effects. You are

really interested in what's good and safe for the people? Well let them choose.

Let this clinic continue it's practice. We are all smart and we are all

consumers. If I need drugs please don't send me to the lawyer?! Makes sense?...

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testme1 12:35 AM Mark As Violation

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With all that is in the air; carpet fresh, fabreeze, clorox, and now the foode;

or what about all the things we use for our grass our flowers....and then the

house... mold ,furniture sray; WHY SHOULD WE NOT HAVE SOME OF THOSE SYMTHEMS.

Detox of some of the chemicals should be done beacuse we know that all the

chemicals combined can do us harm over the long run.

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Davelleconst 12:33 AM Mark As Violation

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It is a reckless, insensitive form of skepticism to refer to any condition that

a physician doesn't understand as a psychological imbalance. We saw this with

chronic fatige immune disfunction syndrome, in which patients have very real

medical problems such as chronic viral infections, low IGG levels, hormonal

imbalances, low killer cells, and more. Even the CDC had to put out a press

release acknowledging this was a realy disease with known immunological and

gentic abnomalies. We have seen this with fibromylagia. Even addiction was once

thought to be a disease of poor will power until it was proven to be a disease

of the brain. What is even more disturbing is that the board certified allergist

in this story would feel it was appropriate to make a diagnosis of mental

illness on the part of 30,000 patients he's never seen and that the reporter

would have ignored recent studies showing a physiological rather than

psychological etiology to this disease. Genetic research has shown that

individuals with environmental illness have certain genetic variations in their

liver enzymes and their ability to detoxify xeniobiotics. Similar genetic

variations have been shown in autism as well, which ties into the recent

groundbreaking case in which the government acknowledged a connection between

vaccines and one young girl's manfistation of autism. Her father, an M.D. PHd

has emphasized this gentic susceptibility to environmental exposures. We may not

fully understand environmental illness, but that does not repudiate its

existence. And it is more reckless that a physician would dismiss the very real

medical problems of 30,000 patients he's never seen, most of whom test positive

for immunological problems like those seen in CFIDS, as environmental illness is

a complication of this disease. I knnow this because I am one. The real story is

the drug company/chemical industries financial interest in invalidating this

disease in the same way they have the vaccine/autism connection

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ninnaloo 12:33 AM Mark As Violation

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We need to back this doctor up. I have lung and heart disease and multiple

allergies that turn to severe allergies, turns asthmatic and shuts my lungs

down. I am continuously and constantly in the hospital with, as I stated, over

$200,000 in medical bills since I was diagnosed with these diseases received

from an on-the-job injury, an on-the-job injury of Respiratory Disease. Dr. Rapp

wrote a book, " Is This Your Child's World? " -- very interesting book. That book

opened my eyes to a lot of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity that you probably never

heard of before. She depicted and demonstrated about children and their world

and how they react to certain substances and this is displayed on the body. Dr.

Rapp was featured on OPRAH. This is not something that just happened. It has

been going on for years. I have been sick with it for 20 years. At my job, many

are passing away, including my Mother. This is something when you run into a

toxic chemical that is unable to be detected and able to take you out of here --

you check out -- DIE from it. The Government doesn't want to call it what it is

-- but it is killing people Nationwide and no one knows what to do about it. We

are Government employees and working in these buildings that are making us sick.

We have proven that it is not an isolated to one particular state and it is not

hereditary, but we need doctors like Dr. Ray, someone who is willing to look

down another road to help people like me. I am out here with no money, no

medical benefits because of this on-the-job injury, sick as I can be along with

others. We need a Cure! Open the door for Dr. Will Ray!I strongly SUPPORT Dr.

Ray and his efforts. We need more like him. There are so many doctors out here

that are turning a deaf ear to this, but we are constantly digging more graves,

nobody is paying attention. I would love to be a patient of his, perhaps my

medical bills will decrease -- they are life and death situations and put me in

a hardship. I want to live! I want to find out if my life can be sustained. My

Mother didnâ€™t have a chance, because society ignored her and others. Many are

dying because they are being told by regular primary care doctors that they

donâ€™t know what it is from. Our Loved Ones are Dying and we are burying them.

What he is talking about is REAL!!!

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_Sutton 12:29 AMMark As Violation

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For a terrific explanation of what chemical and pharmaceutical companies do to

try to avoid any liability for the harm their products cause I recommend Dr. Ann

Mcs statement at http://www.getipm.com/personal/mcs-campbell.htm

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lemonstarfish 12:29 AM Mark As Violation

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Quick google search on environmental medicine: over 16 million matches... 1.

Department of Environmental Medicine: NYU School of Medicine, 2. Yale

Occupational and Environmental Medicine3. Dept of Environmental Medicine,

University of Rochester Medical Center. Pseudo-science? And those are only the

first three links. (Maybe we should let the doctors at these esteemed

institutions they are research and prescribing quackery.)A quick PubMed search

on " environmental illness " reveals over 1500 articles on the topic; many of

them, the gold standard: double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical studies

published in peer-reviewed medical journals around the world. Come on, ABC, you

can do better than that!

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frustratedphysician 12:27 AM Mark As Violation

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I am extremely offended by the immunologist's comment that most people who

suffer from these complaints have an underlying psychiatric disorder. That seems

to be the philosophy of mainstream medicine of which I am a part--an RN. I have

been suffering with undiagnosable maladies for almost 30 years and NO ONE has

been able to help me find a reason. My own doctor says I am depressed and that

is the best he can do for me. Strange that no anti-depressant or therapy has

been able to help me, isn't it? We are tired of being labeled as mentally ill

and would really like somenone to listen to us--that is why people turn to Dr.

Rae--he listens and just MIGHT find a reason and an answer.

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countrygirl56588 12:26 AM Mark As Violation

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I think Dr Kahn is the quack. I am extremely sensitive to my environment and

love the smell of perfume and am profoudly affected by it and exhaust fumes and

he called me a nut case. I invite him to live in my body for a while and see how

he likes it! If I could afford to investigate environmental medicine, it would

be awesome. jm

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bigberry7803 12:22 AM Mark As Violation

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I am a chemically sensitive person - It is not a psychological problem - I am

also a patient of Dr. Khan who did nothing to help me. I am also a former

employee of UT Southwestern Medical Center that had to leave due to a chemical

sensitivity acquired from printer toner vapors and dust. I am severly allergic

to perfumes, gasoline, etc. It is afamily trait. My whole family could not

possibly be psycho. Dr. Khan never did anything to help me. If he had at least

done an MRI he would have found all of the fluid around my heart and lungs that

caused me to have severe problems with my blood pressure, heart rate, asthma,

and pressure around my lungs. The fluid came from the severe drainage that I was

having. I have had to leave my job and seek other employment because Dr. Khan

did nothing to help me to try to keep it. The only Doctors that would help me

was Dr. Ellen Dahl and Dr. Fleischer at CareNow in Grand Prairie - This is a

very recent occurance. I do not agree with Dr. Rea's procedure for a cure, but

at least he is trying to help the patients. I did not know that although Dr.

Khan was my doctor he thought of me as crazy. I am hurt, and I am also jobless

because of it.signed:Hurting bad because of what I just heard

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LDMoten 12:19 AM Mark As Violation

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I am a highly educated, normal, mentally stable (who is that disgusting slick

doctor in the piece who suggested ALL these sufferers are mentally ill?) young

woman who got deathly ill from toxic mold in my home. My dog almost died. I

experienced the craziest symptoms ranging from fevers every week to eye

infections to missed periods to word-finding difficulties. If you have not

experienced environmental toxins, you have no idea of their power. The world

needs more doctors like Dr. Rea. These toxins are real and can cause cancer and

a whole host of other problems. They destroy lives. I don't know Dr. Rea but am

seeking treatment with a similar doctor. My own regular doctors have felt lost

to help me and at least have been open to learning more about toxins. Things are

only going to get worse with all of the man-made chemicals in our world. I'd

like to see who that pompous allergist in tonight's piece goes to when he is

suffering the effects of toxic mold.

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moldkills 12:15 AM Mark As Violation

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Wow. I have never felt moved to post a comment on a Web site but I am tonight. I

am a mentally stable (that SLICK allergy doctor in tonight's piece is the one

who should be put in front of a medical board claiming all these suffering

people are mentally unstable), highly educated young woman who became deathly

ill from toxic mold in my home. Let me tell all of you, you have no idea what

you are talking about until you experience environmental toxins. I couldn't get

focus or concentrate, had a fever almost everyday, blurry vision, difficulty

choosing the right word when speaking, had a rash, gastrointesintal problems,

eye infections - all kinds of bizarre symptoms. My dog also suffered similar

problems including an enlarged liver, cataracts, etc. THE WORLD NEEDS MORE

DOCTORS LIKE DR. REA. I don't know him nor have I sought treatment from him., I

will soon be seeing Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker (www.chronicneurotoxins.com), but it

isn't just mold, it is so many of the things in our environment that are

destroying people's lives. Every regular doctor I have been to felt slightly

helpless but when I have gone back and told them that I discovered the cause was

mold, they want to learn more. I still can't get over that Dr. saying not one of

these people had true health problems. Kudos to ABC for featuring a medical

doctor who was one of Dr. Rea's patients. She has some background in this and

knows that environmental factors can wreak havoc.

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moldkills 12:11 AM Mark As Violation

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I am a firm believer of MCS. I have it. I was going to a clinic here with Dr. V.

Dr. V retired and we no longer have anyone to treat us. We have over 500+

employees who are sick nationwide. I am just sitting here listening to this

doctor saying there is a psychological problem there. I have approximately

$200,000 in medical bills. Now, tell me Doctor is that psychological. I have to

have breathing treatments. What about when they find Asbetos in these buildings

and no one tells us and all of us are sick. If he needs me as a witness, I would

be more than happy to back him up. I am a Nationwide Advocate representing all

of the employees with the same symptoms and diagnosis.

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_Sutton 12:05 AM Mark As Violation

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We humans, and that includes those who are M.D.s, are amazingly ingnorant. There

is still much to learn. The problem with Dr. Rea's model is that it is based

somewhat on the allergy (antibody mediated response) model. Chemical Intolerance

is NOT an allergy. There is current research indicating that there a

deficiencies of enzymes intolved in detoxification. There was recent research

just published of a review of the research on Gulf War Syndrome that implicated

a deficiency of enzymes. This CANARD put out there by the pro-industry advocates

on the Texas Medical Board may cause problems for Dr. Rea and others who are

consumer of " environmental mediciine " BUT it will not delay the inevitable

recongition of the problem ... that some simply cannot effectively detoxify

sythetic man-made chemicals that never existed before their creation by our

modern " mad scientists " who lack a basic understanding of human ecology. God

helps us all! Only UNDERSTANDING of the CAUSE of Chemical Intolerance will help

resolve the problem ... not attacking the credibility of those who have it and

those who attempt to understand and treat it!

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Sunergos2001 12:03 AM Mark As Violation

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Given the information we now have on the quality of water, it would be

interesting to have a detailed and complete chemical analysis of the water used.

For example, we know plastic leeches in the water.

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Do we really think we can have so many consumer products from weed killers to

cosmetics, air fresheners to tail pipe exhaust to name a few, be so overly

protected by trade secret laws, not be safety tested, not be labeled as to their

ingredients, and still have people not get sick? Why is it that a doctor with no

psychiatric background says multiple chemical sensitivity is psychological and

not a psychiatrist? Where is the psychiatric proof? Where is the pile of peer

reviewed psychiatric papers saying that, yes you can be exposed to known

neurotoxins, but subsequent sensory disorders are of a psychiatric nature. The

American Psychiatric Association, www.psych.org does not even have a paper to

offer if you type multiple chemical sensitivity in their search box on their web

site. People who claim to have been abducted by aliens have better clinical

outcomes overall than MCS patients. The alien abduction delusion is treatable

because the alien abduction belief is a failure to perceive reality. It is not

low dose long term poisoning as is common to MCS patients. Psychiatry can treat

reality perception problems, and if MCS were that it could treat it with

success. Psychiatry canâ€™t treat what is not psychiatric in nature anymore than

it can be of help to a hypoglycemic diabetic patient acting bizarrely because he

needs dextrose. Psychiatry is still a dumping ground for the failures of

allopathic medicine. ( But if it is, it, and its patients deserves parity.) If

people with no social, political, religious, cultural or economic connection to

each other across heavily polluted and overly pesticided land increase in

patient numbers and complaints from chemicals it is well past time to mandate

full product labels before anyone proclaims an illness is psychogenic when the

chemicals people have been exposed to havenâ€™t even been fully labeled or well

tested if tested at all.

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Hmm. So what you're saying is that environmental illness might not be real. But,

environmental toxins are real. In fact, most of the available products on the

market are toxic. It's no surprise that more and more people are getting ill.

Have you looked at the label on your shampoo bottle lately? Or deodorant? Or

detergent? And fragrance, no label there. That's an industry that gets around

the labeling laws. Doesn't everyone knows somebody who is sensitive to that

makeup, or breaks out around fabric softener, or can't be around paint fumes?

Are they really all crazy? Or are we all crazy to let the chemical companies

undermine our health?

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suzanneio Mar-20 Mark As Violation

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NOVA follows a team of environmental scientists and engineers investigating

buildings that literally make people sick. Trying to find the cause of people's

illnesses, the scientists collect data from a variety of sources. Some of their

work involves investigating air quality problems, such as chemical fumes,

pollution in air conditioner ducts, and microscopic dust mites. Each test gives

the researchers insight into the causes of sick building syndrome. Case

definitions for MCSA wide array of names has been applied to the chemical

hypersensitivity or multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS). MCS is an acquired

disorder characterized by recurrent symptoms, referable to multiple organ

systems, occurring in response to demonstrable exposure to many chemically

unrelated compounds at doses far below those established in the general

population to cause harmful effects (Cullen, 1987). It is also known as

environmental illness, total allergy syndrome, chemical AIDS and so on (Ashford

and , 1991). A report on MCS by the National Academy press (1992)

addressed the difficulty of defining MCS and the need to use an integrated

neuropsychiatric and biopsychosocial approach in considering MCS. According to

â€œA report on MCSâ€ published by the interagency workgroup on MCS, MCS is a

health outcome, with a debatable validity, that poses policy and medical

challenges to federal agencies and health practitioners. No single accepted case

definition of MCS has been established; proposed definitions all differ in key

criteria, and some definitions suggest a broad spectrum of possible symptoms.

The validated epidemiologic data required to clarify the natural history,

etiology, and diagnosis of MCS are not available (EHPC, 1998).A recent random

population study (Caress et al., 2004) indicated that the national MCS

prevalence might be ranged between 12.6% and 15.9%.

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Dr. Rea, if you need supportors at the hearing let us know. Our family doctor

wouldn't touch us. (He's a Big Pharma boywho writes scripts every 15 minutes for

the throngs of sickos in his office) Dr. Rea finds the problem. Three of fourin

our family have pesticide poisoning. My sons, born in 1992, have pesticides in

their blood banned in the 1970's. Nice. It messes with your head, gives you

dysautonomia, wrecks your life. We've been polluting the earth for a very long

time. The toxins damage DNA and tipping points are reached earlier. I believe

cancer rates are 1 in 2.5 now. Even burningkerosene generations ago, damaged

chromosomes. Find the source of your symptoms: Accuchem finds the pesticidesand

Genovations finds your DNA SNPs. Knowing your body's playbook sure helps your

chances for a proper protocol. storyofstuff.com says it well: if there's dioxin

in breast milk, what are we doing people?

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I welded for 20 years in very toxic chemical plants, papermills, nuclear plants

and live army arsenals - where bombs and chemicals were manufactured in the

1940s during WWII ( to kill the enemy).Just being in these areas was bad enough

but the 6,000 to 10,000 degree heat created from welding made some very nice

fumes that knocked welders over backwards, caused nose bleeds and suffocation,

and many of us developed cancer and some died. I went to their funerals.AND many

of us developed chemical sensitivity from over exposure. I guess the cancer was

all in our heads too. Go tell that to the widows of the ones who died

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davidaar4412 Mar-20 Mark As Violation

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Have you been sniffing glue? EVERYBODY is sensitive to environmental toxins. So,

is everybody crazy? How about cancer? Cancer's an environmental illness. Is that

a psychological problem?

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suzanneio Mar-20 Mark As Violation

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Yes, Environmental Illness (EI) is very real! I also have it. I suffer from

severe Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) along with 3.5% or 10.5 million other

people in the U.S. I won my SSDI hearing with the diagnosis of severe MCS, in

May of 2006. I was Chemically injured by a mis-mixed outdoor grade pesticide

called " Dursban " in 1997. The pesticide Dursban was taken off the market in 2000

due to all of the health problems directly related to it. Two wonderful local

doctors saved my life after I had all the symptoms of pesticide poisoning. I

also have made my living area free of chemicals. I have to wear a respirator to

keep from getting headaches when I go outside, due to all of the chemicals.Read

my story and and do your homework because you could be the next to reach your

level of toxic

overload.http://www.mcs-international.org/about_us/meet_the_team/usa/joyce_jallo\

..html WA State Representative for mcs-international.orgwww.mcs-international.org

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jjorsusie12 Mar-20 Mark As Violation

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purplesox123, if people are allergic to natural substances, why can't the be

sensitive to chemical substances? One could take your argument to mean that

smoking (chemical reaction of burning tobacco) does not cause lung cancer. Many

Fireman die of lung cancer because of exposure to toxic smoke in fires. This is

an area that needs more study.

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You do sound uncaring. I am legally disabled with Chemical Injury for 8 years

now. How do you think I got this diagnosis and disability if it is not proven.

It's easy to throw things out that aren't true, but I urge you to educate

yourself further.

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carylred Mar-20 Mark As Violation

Controversial Clinic for the 'Chemically Sensitive'

Texas Doctor Target of State Medical Board for 'Environmental Medicine'What if

you thought that the world around you was making you sick? If you feared that

the house you live in, the car that you drive and everyday activities such as

watching television and talking on a cell phone were making you ill? Dr.

Rea says he has treated more than 30,000 people, from all over the world, who

believe the world around them has made them sick. Very sick. " Lots of times they

know what's wrong with them, but they haven't been able to get any help, " Rea

said. " And...

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You do sound uncaring. I am legally disabled with Chemical Injury for 8 years

now. How do you think I got this diagnosis and disability if it is not proven.

It's easy to throw things out that aren't true, but I urge you to educate

yourself further.

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