Environmental Treatment Tips for People with MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity)

MCS Environment Tips

Environmental treatment tips that helped my son's chemical sensitivities (MCS) included:

Buying dye and perfume free laundry detergent.

Buying only all wood furniture to avoid formaldehyde fumes from pressed woods. My son develops headaches and wobbly eyes (nystagmus) whenever he is around pressed wood.

Buying chemical free soaps for hand washing at the health food store.

Keeping the windows open in the house during the day, weather permitting. I especially keep the window in his room open to let it vent.

We moved out many of the plastic and vinyl toys from his room like his Lego collection to reduce his chemical exposures. We keep some stored in boxes in the garage and a smaller set in the family room which has more ventilation.

Washing his bedding frequently to limit his dust and mold exposure.

Keeping the windows open to our new van when it is parked in the garage overnight to help it air out and get rid of the "new car smell". New cars are sources of a variety of potentiality toxic chemicals including formaldehyde and benzene. Japanese automakers, including Toyota, are currently striving to reduce the number of harmful chemicals found in new cars.

Using only natural pesticides around the house. I noticed my son had more health issues right after signs went up at his school that the buildings had had been treated with pesticides. I guess it is good they put the signs up, but that still didn't help my son any. This whole idea of regularly spraying schools with toxic pesticides seems crazy to me. I think for many children they are creating a worse problem than the one they are trying to solve. A few cockroaches never killed anyone, but people getting headaches, asthma attacks and other bad reactions from pesticides are not uncommon.

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Sections in the series:

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) - the links to nitrites and nutritional deficiencies.

MCS Treatment Overview - what we found helpful.
Nutrition
Environmental Control Tips

Chemical Sensitivity Resources - the articles on MCS I found the most helpful and pragmatic.

Noise Sensitivity / Sensitive Hearing

Nystagmus - overlooked causes of wobbly eyes.

Anxiety and Depression - overlooked nutritional factors.

Fibromyalgia Diet

Magnesium Deficiency - this important mineral is needed for hundreds of functions in the body, including detoxification of many chemicals.

Mitral Valve Prolapse - the links to diet

Magnesium Migraine Connection

Zinc Deficiency

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