Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

1. Identification followed by avoidance. For example, a patient who is reacting to the gas utilities in their house would be well advised to change their gas cooker to an electric one, and to move any gas boiler to an outhouse. Constant exposure to chemicals is very difficult to deal with by neutralization.
   
   
2. Skin testing and neutralization, as described earlier. the desensitization is administered by sublingual drops and works well against occasionally encountered chemicals like petrol or diesel fumes, perfumes, cigarette smoke, formaldehyde (often found in departmental stores amongst other places).
   
   
3. In the long term patients can be improved by attending to the nutritional problems that nearly always accompany chemical sensitivity. The methods by which the human organism detoxifies chemicals are well known and have been worked out by toxicologists many years ago. Chemicals are toxic to all living organisms, but people with adequate immune systems and adequate nutrition manage to change these chemicals from toxic to non-toxic within their body and excrete them. People who have severe multiple chemical sensitivities are not very good at this and this is why they have the problems.

The P.450 Cytochrome system is the main mechanism for detoxification within the body for which there are two phases. The Phase I mechanisms rely on various enzyme systems, particularly enzymes such as alcohol dehydrogenase and acetaldehyde dehydrogenase, which are in turn dependent on adequate amounts of trace minerals such as magnesium, molybdenum, iron and zinc. The Phase II mechanism is a back-up system that relies on adequate amounts of the amino acid glutathione which conjugates which chemicals rendering them inactive, and excretes them through the bile duct in this state. Testing for the levels of nutrients, which are needed for the detoxification process, is essential in the long term treatment of chemical sensitivity. Correcting any nutritional deficiencies helps these patients considerably in the long term.