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We were sorry to hear about the passing of a lovely lady called Dee, who had leukemia and also suffered from extreme sensitivities, which really impacted her life. Rest in peace Dee. Her family have kindly given donations in her memory to MCS-Aware which we are very grateful for. We are thinking of her family at this difficult time.
Glossary: EI: Environmental Illness, MCS: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, EHS/ ES: Electro-Hypersensitivity
Tips on improving your health
If you're suffering from a variety of unexplained symptoms, sensitivity to foods, chemicals or electrical products could be the cause. Reactions can vary from headaches, joint pain, stuffy/runny nose, bloating, exhaustion and wheezing, to skin rashes, mood swings, hyperactivity or depression. These tips may help: Join a support group to share ideas, experiences and coping strategies. Try to spend time with people other than family to keep life in perspective and take your mind off food and health. It is essential to manage your energy effectively and pace yourself sensibly so your body can reserve some energy for healing. Chemical and food sensitivities will exacerbate exhaustion. Deep and efficient breathing helps improve oxygen levels, affecting every cell in the body. Abdominal breathing exercises can be taught through meditation or yoga practices. Physical, mental and emotional stress can exacerbate food and chemical sensitivities so try to sort out the source of the stress. To read more tips on helping yourself click here.
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Recipe: Potato and Lentil Stew
Corn, egg, gluten, lactose, milk, nut, peanut, sesame, soya & wheat free
This stew is not particularly hot but is very tasty and quite easy to make. Full of goodness and ideal when the weather starts to get colder. Click here for the full recipe.
Thanks go to Foods Matter for kindly letting us reproduce this dish.
The Sensitives who are allergic to synthetic chemicals
Increasing hordes of allergy-sensitive people are retreating into the wilderness in hope of finding freedom from pain and misery, while others are dying by suicide, according to a new book. Millions around the world are suffering from being triggered by the 85,000 synthetic chemicals in the modern world, while also being largely abandoned by a scornful medical establishment. These 'sensitives' experience fatigue, headaches, brain fog and chronic pain, as well as the psychological distress of health professionals determining that the ailments are psychological in nature. Journalist Oliver Broudy’s book The Sensitives: The Rise of Environmental Illness and the search for America’s Last Pure Place takes us inside the world of those people. He tells Jesse Mulligan when he met individuals who seemed to be strongly affected by environmental degradation triggers, it presented the chance to explore chemical dangers of the modern world in detail. “When I ran across this group of people it seemed to be an opportunity to consider the possibility that 'what if everything we have come into contact with on a daily basis really is as terrifying as we might fear'. How then would that change our lives, how then would that change our perspective on government regulation, on the medical establishment and all these other institutions that we rely upon to basically frame our reality for us.”
The triggers vary widely for people – from hair spray, the exhaust of cars, to ice cream with preservatives, or something more obvious, like a chemical spill. “It depends. Usually it will start off with one big chemical exposure like a chemical spill at work, or a long exposure. There was one woman I spoke to who had been picking strawberries when she was younger. And so her theory was over the years the pesticides built up in her system until it reached some type of a tipping point. In terms of the symptoms, the most common are fatigue, brain fog, muscle aches, memory difficulties. “There was one guy who said it’s a bit like being pregnant except after nine months it just keeps going.” Sensitives live even more prudently than the public now forced to take precautions to avoid Covid-19 and the psychological impact of having to avoid dangers is significant, he says. More damaging in many cases is the stigma of being considered strange, and the suspicion among doctors that their symptoms are psychosomatic. “I think there is a weird, unexpected defensiveness in the scientific and medical establishment when they dismiss stuff they don’t understand, because in a way it’s an indictment of the ignorance of experts," he says.
To read the rest of the article, which was first published on the RNZ website, click here, where you can also listen to an interview with the author, Oliver Broudy.
Latest News
Neutrogena hit with class action alleging make up removers cause harmful skin reactions. Read more here.
Volunteers take on weeding instead of chemical pesticides in Balermo (we have an article on this in the next magazine).
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