OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST
Professor Anne C. Steinemann's article: "Exposure Assessment Investigating what, where, and how pollutants affect humans and the environment, and developing ways to reduce exposures, reduce costs, and improve health; Fragranced consumer products: Chemicals emitted....."
http://depts.washington.edu/exposure/obtain_the_article.html
"Not So Sexy": report on ingredients in perfumes; see links at the bottom of the page that this link opens:
http://safecosmetics.org/article.php?id=644
Hamburg, Germany hospital offers special rooms for MCS
http://www.csn-deutschland.de/blog/en/hamburg-hospital-offers-rooms-for-patients-with-mcs-and-environmental-illness/
MCS newsletter and blog resource
http://www.thecanaryreport.org/
CDC Establishes Fragrance-Free Policy in All Its Offices (DATE OF POLICY ISSUE: 6-22-2009)
http://www.thecanaryreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/CDC-2009-Indoor-Environmental-Quality.-internal-policy542.pdf
American Chronicle article on the above CDC Fragrance-Free Policy (popular version, easier to read)
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/154089
CDC National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (August 10, 2010)
http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/
Ashok Gupta's amygdala retraining program on DVD's for recovery from CFS/FM/MCS/EHS; looks good: workshops in England; also an excellent 12 hour course on DVDs + CD, cost $200.
http://www.guptaprogramme.com/html/explainMCS.asp
Annie Hopper's "Dynamic Neural Retraining System" for recovery from MCS/ES/FM; many good testimonials: workshops, but no DVDs yet.
http://www.dnrsystem.com/index.html
http://planetthrive.com/2009/10/rewiring-the chemically-sensitive-brain/
Three sites that are good introductions to MCS; the first is 3 pages long, and the second and third are 11 pages each.
http://www.mcscanadian.org/ann_campbell.html
http://www.holistichelp.net/blog/mcs-awareness-month/
http://thechemicaledge.wordpress.com/section-2-the-song-of-the-canary-mcs/2-b-mcs-101-2-definitions-and-links/
Papers on flicker from computer monitors and fluorescent lights
http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/myths/lamps_seizures.html
Debra Lynn Dadd's Green Living Q&A Blog.
http://www.dld123.com/q&a/index.php
http://planetthrive.com/focus-on/chemical-sensitivity/
HEAL: Human Ecology Action League
http://www.healnatl.org/index.html
AEHB: Arizona Environmental Health Bulletin, edited by Kathy Hemenway.
aehb@frontiernet.net
CIIN: Chemical Injury Information Network; their newsletter is "Our Toxic Times".
http://www.ciin.org/
EIR: "The Environmental Illness Resource"
http://www.ei-resource.org/
Teflon Oxygen Tubing
http://www.immuneweb.org/articles/oxygentubing.html
Wiggy's sleeping bags and tents. Less toxic materials. Wiggy's will tell you that not one EI has reacted to the materials in their bags.
http://www.wiggys.com/
Big Agnes camping-style self-inflating air mattresses ("sleep pads"). The last time I bought them, they were generally much less toxic than the "Therm-a-rest" brand, and only needed a few weeks of outgassing (the sun helped).
http://www.bigagnes.com/
Karen's Naturals specializes in products made for people with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and those wanting fragrance free personal care products. She makes a non-toxic sunscreen that may be the most natural sunscreen formulation available. One of her sunscreens is colored with real organic coffee: "Organic Max Coffee Sun Cream".
http://www.karensnaturals.com/
American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association
http://www.aarda.org/