Comment: This one is from 2000. It serves as a prime example of the improvement outcome when patients are more appropriately treated by the medical field, rather than being cast asside as malingerers or given inappropriate psychiatric treatment... the later of which both have no efficacy.
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Phased Initiation by Anaesthetics and a New Building
Jonathan Maberly1 and Honor Anthony1
1Farfield House, North Street, Keighley BD21 3AA, UK
Journal of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine
2000, Vol. 10, No. 4, Pages 297-304
This is the case history of an allergic teacher who developed variable loss of power and co-ordination in her legs following small operations requiring anaesthetics, which later developed into severe multiple chemical sensitivity while she was working in a new building, so that she needed a wheelchair. When full investigation in a teaching hospital failed to find an explanation, she was referred for an allergy opinion, admitted to the Airedale Allergy Centre (AAC), an environmentally-controlled unit, and her symptoms cleared during a therapeutic fast. The environmental factors provoking her symptoms were identified and her management consisted of avoidance and low-dose desensitization. In the 11 years since then she has managed to keep well with care and takes 12-mile walks.
