MCS - more accurate term is MES (brief excerpts)

> Subject: Multiple Environmental Sensitivity
> Excerpts from online PDF book "black on white" linked to the FEB.SE
> site:
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> Page 46
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> "Accordingly, we have those who are hypersensitive to chemicals in
> the USA who primarily consider themselves to be hypersensitive to
> chemicals...
> but in part, they are also hypersensitive to electricity...
> We have those who are hypersensitive to electricity in Sweden and
> Germany who consider themselves to be hypersensitive to electricity,
> but at times they are also hypersensitive to chemicals.
> Similar symptoms - but different names?"
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> Page 48
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> It seems to me that the activators or so-called triggers can be
> chemicals or electromagnetic fields. Perhaps one should instead make
> a general referral to "environmental hypersensitivity" (MES, Multiple
> Environmental Sensitivity, as suggested by the German engineer
> Gerhard Nieman, who works for a German association for the electro-
> hypersensitive in Munich). Those who are afflicated name their
> hypersensitivity after the triggering factor. If it is electricity,
> one becomes "electro-hypersensitive". If it is chemicals, one
> becomes "chemically hypersensitive". If it is mercury, one develops
> amalgam illness and so on.
> But once one has "opened the doorway" to hypersensitivity (become
> sensitized), the boundaries seem to be erased and a general
> hypersensitivity sets in. It can then at times be difficult to
> distinguish whether it is a chemical or an electromagnetic field that
> causes the problem; for example...

> Hello,
>
> on which url is this book?
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> Randolf Weinand
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> --- In [hidden email], "minnimall" <minnimall@y...> wrote:
> > Subject: Multiple Environmental Sensitivity
> > Excerpts from online PDF book "black on white" linked to the FEB.SE
> > site:
> >
> > Page 46
> >
> > "Accordingly, we have those who are hypersensitive to chemicals in
> > the USA who primarily consider themselves to be hypersensitive to
> > chemicals...
> > but in part, they are also hypersensitive to electricity...
> > We have those who are hypersensitive to electricity in Sweden and
> > Germany who consider themselves to be hypersensitive to electricity,
> > but at times they are also hypersensitive to chemicals.
> > Similar symptoms - but different names?"
> >
> > Page 48
> >
> > It seems to me that the activators or so-called triggers can be
> > chemicals or electromagnetic fields. Perhaps one should instead make
> > a general referral to "environmental hypersensitivity" (MES, Multiple
> > Environmental Sensitivity, as suggested by the German engineer
> > Gerhard Nieman, who works for a German association for the electro-
> > hypersensitive in Munich). Those who are afflicated name their
> > hypersensitivity after the triggering factor. If it is electricity,
> > one becomes "electro-hypersensitive". If it is chemicals, one
> > becomes "chemically hypersensitive". If it is mercury, one develops
> > amalgam illness and so on.
> > But once one has "opened the doorway" to hypersensitivity (become
> > sensitized), the boundaries seem to be erased and a general
> > hypersensitivity sets in. It can then at times be difficult to
> > distinguish whether it is a chemical or an electromagnetic field that
> > causes the problem; for example...
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