lists us as a Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

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I was re-reading an email that I had just sent to a relative, explaining that I

had two illnesses that I had not discussed previously with them. The first

illness was " Sick Building Syndrome/Building Related Illness " . The second

illness was " Multiple Chemical Sensitivity " .

 

I noticed something unusual, in my copy of the " sent " email, that I had never

noticed before. The words " Multiple Chemical Sensitivity " were underlined with

tiny little dots.  These tiny dots let the reader know that there is more

information available, on the meaning of the words, in the search engine,

simply by clicking on the underdotted words.

 

There was NO underdotting with the words " Sick Building Syndrome " . So I clicked

on " Multiple Chemical Sensitivity " , and the search engine opened a window

called " Shorts " , which displayed the following links, listed below the

dotted line, in this posting.

 

I was perplexed, and disappointed, to find that thinks that the words

" Sick Building Syndrome " are just another way to say " Multiple Chemical

Sensitivity " . and therefore they will never be underdotted, on their own right,

which would have brought  " Sick Building Syndrome "  to the attention of millions

of people.

 

Since I personally have both of these illnesses, in addition to asthma, I can

affirm that all three illnesses are distinctly different, and have their own

specific unique sets of misery.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about " educating " ?

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From : 

 

Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is described as a chronic condition

characterized by several adverse and variable affects from exposure to otherwise

low levels of substances in modern human environments. It has also been called

toxic injury (TI), chemical sensitivity (CS), chemical injury (CI), 20th Century

Syndrome, environmental illness (EI), Sick Building Syndrome, idiopathic

environmental intolerance (IEI), and Toxicant-induced loss of tolerance (TILT).

Read more at Wikipedia

 

 

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On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 10:50 PM, <ntefusa@...> wrote:

> I REALLY wish people would STOP using the term MCS or multiple chemical

> sensitivity...........it's a RED FLAG that gets the salivary glands of

> defense

> attorneys going....as they know that they will get any litigation thrown

> out

> under DAUBERT and get it dismissed under summary judgement.

>

> Almost every environmental illness doc will not use that as a diagnosis, as

>

> they know it's the kiss of death!

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> I REALLY wish people would STOP using the term MCS or multiple

chemical

> sensitivity...........it's a RED FLAG that gets the salivary glands

of defense

> attorneys going....as they know that they will get any litigation

thrown out

> under DAUBERT and get it dismissed under summary judgement.

>

> Almost every environmental illness doc will not use that as a

diagnosis, as

> they know it's the kiss of death!

>

Theres always appeals...

[Guest guest]

My doctor called it reactive airways disease and the irritant induced

asthma, forget what they call it right now. There are two kinds of

asthma the kind you are born with and the kind that irritants cause

breathing problems. Even Senator used the word sick building

syndrom when he talked about the people sick from the Miami courthouse.

So sad we need permission to have this illness whatever you call it.

You can also be turned down for having a yeast infection according to

the move Sicko by . A girl had one yeast infection that

she didn't disclose when she got insurance and they eventually made her

pay back money for an operation for something unrelated to yeast, I

don't remember for what.

--- In , LiveSimply <quackadillian@...>

wrote:

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> Having a diagnosis of either multiple chemical sensitivity or chronic

[Guest guest]

Are you talking about health insurance rescission?

That happens all the time in Calif. Its come out that some companies

actually start looking for ways to dump people and pay bonuses based on

number of people dumped.

Its a problem that will stay with us as long as we price insurance by risk.

To insurers, their fair price is determined by how sick you are, even if you

dont know it,

they dont care. They can dump you for things you haven't even been diagnosed

with, retroactively.

I was hoping to see some change on this in 2008 but now Ive given up.

Nobody is addressing this because if they did, rates would go up.

For someone who has non-group coverage (coverage that is not through a big

employer) who gets sick, this can be a nightmare.

If someone has any significant claims, they often start looking for ways to

end their coverage and get that money that they have paid out, back.

http://www.google.com/search?q=health+insurance+rescission

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-fi-healthinsure-sg,1,3627886.storygall\

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:41 AM, ldelp84227 <ldelp84227@...> wrote:

> My doctor called it reactive airways disease and the irritant induced

> asthma, forget what they call it right now. There are two kinds of

> asthma the kind you are born with and the kind that irritants cause

> breathing problems. Even Senator used the word sick building

> syndrom when he talked about the people sick from the Miami courthouse.

> So sad we need permission to have this illness whatever you call it.

> You can also be turned down for having a yeast infection according to

> the move Sicko by . A girl had one yeast infection that

> she didn't disclose when she got insurance and they eventually made her

> pay back money for an operation for something unrelated to yeast, I

> don't remember for what.

>

>

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> >

> > Having a diagnosis of either multiple chemical sensitivity or chronic

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