neonix
Jedi Council Member
Allergic to the 21st Century (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity)
Tue 31 Mar 2015
by Alasdair Cross
Every day we're exposed to a multitude of man-made chemicals in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the products we clean our homes and wash our bodies with. For some people, like journalist Jane Little, the burden can be almost too much to bear. Certain chemicals trigger extreme physical reactions, leaving her ill and exhausted for days at a time. It's a debilitating condition for her and many thousands of fellow sufferers.
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Jane suffered her first extreme reaction whilst staying on the family farm in Cumbria. Exposed, alongside her father, to the cocktail of disinfectants used during the Foot and Mouth outbreak of 2001, she believes this could be the origin of her condition.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nvfqz
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Tue 31 Mar 2015
by Alasdair Cross
Every day we're exposed to a multitude of man-made chemicals in the food we eat, the air we breathe and the products we clean our homes and wash our bodies with. For some people, like journalist Jane Little, the burden can be almost too much to bear. Certain chemicals trigger extreme physical reactions, leaving her ill and exhausted for days at a time. It's a debilitating condition for her and many thousands of fellow sufferers.
[...]
Jane suffered her first extreme reaction whilst staying on the family farm in Cumbria. Exposed, alongside her father, to the cocktail of disinfectants used during the Foot and Mouth outbreak of 2001, she believes this could be the origin of her condition.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nvfqz
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4:10 After that one big exposure we were both left reacting to all sorts of low dose man-made chemicals which haven't been a problem for us before. As my mom Molly explains. - As a result of that exposure, you've both become a lot more chemically sensitive.