Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, MCS

Annex G

Summary of descriptions by members of The Danish MCS Organization

Most members have experienced how humiliating it is to be the object of suspicion and regarded as a psychiatric case. The organization and its members have information on MCS from international sources. But general practitioners usually do not want to read this information, in spite of the fact that they know nothing about the definition of the illness, methods of examination, and treatment. They can regard their patients as being “obsessed” by their illness.

The organization has sent some case histories supporting the course of events described above to the Danish EPA. A physician at Ambulanz in Rostock diagnosed a member as having MCS and many accompanying signs of illness that were to be investigated further and treated in Denmark. Again, the Danish specialists were not very keen on carrying out the investigations, which had been prescribed by a physician in Germany, specialized in environmental illnesses. They could see neither the need nor the use of such an investigation.

Martin Silberschmidt

15.10.2001

 



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