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["Multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome"]
1Klinische Abteilung Arbeitsmedizin, Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin IV, Wien. chris.wolf@univie.ac.at
Abstract:
Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) has been described as an acquired multiple organ disease typically characterized by central nervous irritative and/or gastrointestinal symptoms. Advocates of this suspected syndrome attribute these disorders to overstressing of the organism caused by exposure to external noxae. Opponents of the theory of MCS attribute all the symptoms to classical conditioning or other psychopathological processes. In so far as controlled data exist, there is no indication of a toxic or immunological cause for this syndrome.
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