Hygiena 2008, 53(4):141-142

Multiple Chemical Sensitivities

Drahoslava Hrubá

Ústav preventivního lékařství, Lékařská fakulta MU, Brno

Syndrome of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities has been known since the middle of 80th of the last century. Although health professionals expressed their scepticism, they recommended the serious study of this problem by standard epidemiologic, clinical and laboratory methods. Later, the epidemiologic studies described higher frequency of the syndrome than it had been earlier suggested. The results verifying the hypothesis about the primary psychiatric initiation of the problems are controversial. The possible role of immunity systems dysfunction in the causality of the syndrome is still studied.

Keywords: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

Published: December 2008  Show citation