Unanimous Agreement:

3 Factions Come To Grips With

The Bottom Line

 

Traditional Medicine, Environmental Specialists & The People

 

All agree that injury from overexposure to chemicals at large in one's immediate environment probably won't cause one's immediate death... one just feels that way...for a very long time... or at least until one's environment is sufficiently cleared

 

In the meantime, one may only exhibit minor disablements

 

The June 1998 issue of the Chemical Injury Information Network's Newsletter

Our Toxic Times

headlines the following from German Government Press Release, 12 May, 1998

 

The SPD Bundestagsfraktion (German Legislative Body) is moving toward preventative health protection, in which education and information of the people are playing a key role. For this purpose it will hold a hearing on August 26 on the topic

"Environmental Loads and Health."

Worldwide initiatives against pollutant- and environment-related illnesses have led the eco-political speaker of the SPD Bundestagsfraktion, Michael Mueller, and the SPD Member of the Bundestag, Friedhelm Julius Beucher, to release the following statement:

"Environment- and pollutant-related illnesses are on the rise at an alarming rate. Today every fourth German has an exhausted immune system and suffers from allergies. Numerous noxious chemicals from indoor exposures are playing an important role in this.

The most recent example is the analysis of the former U.S. Army apartments. In almost all apartments, true toxic cocktails were found - such as polychlorinated biphenyls, chlorophyrifos, pyrethroids, DDT and others - with the consequence, that many new tenants, especially children, have fallen ill. Refurbishment of the apartments was on the agenda, but who is supposed to pay and who will be forced to pay for this in the end?

For the above given reason, the SPD has filed a small inquiry with the Federal Government, in reference to the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) Syndrome.

Education of the general public and preventative public health policy should be the order of the day. Psychiatrization of MCS patients and patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is the wrong avenue.

The Governor of Connecticut, John C. Rowland, and the Governor of New Mexico have set a good example. They have proclaimed the week from May 11-17 to be the awareness week for MCS related diseases and other Environmental Illnesses. They are acting this way because MCS can have grave personal, financial, professional, health and social consequences for people with this disablement. (See story in this issue of OTT.)

Our Federal Minister of Health could certainly learn a lot from the Final Report of the Californian Senate Subcommittee on the "Rights of the Disabled." This report was finalized after 4 years of intensive groundwork, and it confirms that suitable measures for the handicapped people with MCS present a problem of larger magnitude. The report ascertained that this involves annual costs of taxpayers money running into the billions, caused by dropping productivity and performance at the workplace related to MCS and other environment related illnesses."

 

Our Toxic Times is a publication of the Chemical Injury Information Network. Editor-In-Chief: Cynthia Wilson; Managing Editor, John Wilson.

Having been recurrently chemically injured from construction materials since 1993, we can confirm that MCS, which we more accurately call 'Chemical Injury,' now that we know, does have grave personal, financial, professional, health and social consequences in addition to the pain and suffering it causes for long periods of time.

The right wing faction on the issue purports that one would have to fall into a vat of said chemicals to be severely or permanently injured, disabled, or cause death. The left wing faction's growing research dbase reports findings to the contrary at even low level exposures with severe injury, loss of quality of health and life, insanity, and in many cases death due to end organ failure in one's given weak area or suicide due to inability to endure the pain, suffering, and debilitation long term exposure of the right mix can cause.

No one's to blame. It all started with better living thru chemistry and, boy, didn't we! Technology exploded in a neutron of fascinations these chemicals could provide without thoroughly considering their consequences.

One area of expertise is injury from construction materials with lumber, for instance, now being chemically dried instead of kiln dried as in the early years of the industry and lethal glues from particle board, chipboard, ply, et al outgassing forever according to ancient oriental principles, unless sealed. Formula: Chemical drying agents = drying or, if the kindling effect ignites, burning, if sustained intensely enough for a short period or low level exposures longterm, respectively. The effects of these agents extend not only to the product, but to the immediate or extended environment including human and other living specae inhabiting said environment. In the case of drying agents, it only stands to reason that burn or corrosion to varying degrees would present in delicate living tissue with over- or long-term exposure. Is it any wonder every fourth human in the world suffers from an exhausted immune system in one or more areas?

Envisioning the effects of these chemicals on delicate tissues i.e., membranes, eyes, and testicles only hint at the immediate damage they do in shooting straight to the brain first via the olfactory system. The effects on lung tissue in humans of any age range vary misdiagnosed in a plethorae of 'illnesses' such as asthma and other respiratory ailments, hyperactivity, behavior problems, and learning disabilities in children, and cognitive impairment now being noticed in so many adults at earlier stages.

State-of-the-art German technology out in front of the leading edge Lights the way for an immediate quantum leap in global awareness and action of the human condition in this issue. Addressing this issue of global import in global proportions is as simple as providing simple, cost effective home testing devices interfacable with computer hardware, software and