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13 April 2005 - Danish Research Report on
Sick Building Syndrome
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A research report, published by the Danish Environmental
Protection Agency (DEPA), has concluded that the controversial sick building
syndrome is a real health disorder.
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), or sick building syndrome
as it is commonly known, has for over 20 years been unrecognised as a health
disorder, due to it's characteristic non-specific health symptoms.
Some of the symptoms experienced occur in different organs at
the same time after exposure to chemicals at very low concentrations, such as
burning eyes, sore throats and headaches.
The DEPA report was based on a study of the following, mainly
form the U.S.:
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Scientific literature.
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Meetings.
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Workshops.
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Reviews.
Practises of environmental administrations in European countries
and Northern America were also taken into consideration.
MCS can easily be confounded with other diffuse conditions, as
symptoms are very similar. Other conditions being such as the
following:
The report notes that the occurrence of MCS is often in people
"who are more sensitive to environmental stressors than others" and that "there
is clear evidence from the epidemiological literature that MCS exists, even
though the exact mechanism is not known and there are no demonstrable organic or
functional changes".
The Danish report can be accessed by clicking the following:
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, MCS
Article by Alexandra Johnston
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