MCS Awareness Month
http://www..holistichelp.net/blog/mcs-awareness-month/
May is MCS, aka multiple chemical sensitivity, awareness month. Many of you may not be aware that this is a deeply personal issue for me, because I live with severe and disabling MCS. So this is a topic that I have a great deal of not only professional experience, but personal as well.
Despite the fact that more than 48 million Americans have some degree of chemical sensitivity, of which about 3 million are full blown MCS, it continues to be a condition that many people are unaware of and don't understand.
MCS is short for multiple chemical sensitivity and is sometimes called environmental illness syndrome or more recently chemical injury. The term chemical injury was coined in an attempt to find a better term that more accurately describes the condition. As anyone living with MCS knows, the term "sensitivity" really doesn't capture the essence of what this condition means. To some degree it really minimizes it and covers up the fact, which is that chemicals have injured the person inflicted, so therefore chemical injury is a much more accurate term. However, since most people continue to use the term MCS and it is the term that most people are aware of, we will continue to use it in this post.
http://www..holistichelp.net/blog/mcs-awareness-month/
May is MCS, aka multiple chemical sensitivity, awareness month. Many of you may not be aware that this is a deeply personal issue for me, because I live with severe and disabling MCS. So this is a topic that I have a great deal of not only professional experience, but personal as well.
Despite the fact that more than 48 million Americans have some degree of chemical sensitivity, of which about 3 million are full blown MCS, it continues to be a condition that many people are unaware of and don't understand.
MCS is short for multiple chemical sensitivity and is sometimes called environmental illness syndrome or more recently chemical injury. The term chemical injury was coined in an attempt to find a better term that more accurately describes the condition. As anyone living with MCS knows, the term "sensitivity" really doesn't capture the essence of what this condition means. To some degree it really minimizes it and covers up the fact, which is that chemicals have injured the person inflicted, so therefore chemical injury is a much more accurate term. However, since most people continue to use the term MCS and it is the term that most people are aware of, we will continue to use it in this post.
<snip> See link for full article.
