Remove Chemical Fumes With the HealthMate Plus Air Purifier
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) is a clinical term used to identify people with debilitating chemical sensitivities. These people often have been exposed to chemicals in the past and are now less and less tolerant to exposure. Many common products can sicken MCS sufferers such as new paint, pesticides, perfumes, detergents, tobacco smoke, new carpets, new furniture, and household cleaners. These products emit gas chemicals and in high concentrations, they can make anyone sick. However, MCS sufferers can get sick when exposed to even small amounts.
Breathing contaminated air is one primary way a MCS sufferer is exposed. Airborne particulate matter and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) (chemical gases) can be ingested from the air. Removing these pollutants with an air purifier is the best way to remove the source. Air cleaning will eliminate the pollutants before they have a chance to enter the lungs, blood system, and other organs. The HealthMate Plus is an air purifier built to remove these airborne pollutants. The HealtMate Plus air purifier is a superior built system that has a substantial concentration of an activated carbon blend and medical grade High Efficiency Particulate Arresting (HEPA) filter. It is designed and built for the chemically sensitive, particularly MCS sufferers.
Who Among Us Are Chemically Sensitive?
With the growing use of chemicals in manufacturing processes and products, MCS is becoming a serious and growing public health problem affecting a significant number of people. It affects people of all ages, races, and backgrounds. Our homes continue to harbor and contain a growing number of chemicals exposing more and more of us to chemicals.
Events like the Gulf Oil Spill, the Gulf War and the World Trade Center disaster created conditions that exposed large populations to the toxic fumes and dust. An epidemiological study on the Gulf War indicates that 34 percent of the veterans who served in the Gulf War, or over 200,000 men and women, are suffering serious health problems because of toxic exposures to 600 oil well fires that burned for months. Many people in Manhattan exposed to the World Trade Center tragedy suffer from chemical sensitivity and have found their health has improved but note exposure to perfume, cigarette smoke, vehicle exhaust, and cleaning solutions creates MCS symptoms in ways they never experienced before 9/11.
Symptoms of MCS
Symptoms that MCS sufferers can experience range from mild to life threatening. They can have muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, headache, trouble concentrating, nausea, fatigue, dizziness, and difficulty breathing. Physical symptoms can be hyperactivity, red ears and cheeks, dark circles under the eyes, and behavior problems in children. Once exposed, sufferers may experience symptoms immediately, or it may take days to materialize and can last up to many months.
Physicians can look at history and perform physical examinations in an attempt to determine chemical exposure. The physical may reveal difficulty breathing, yellowish skin color, ankle swelling, heartbeat irregularities, inflamed nodes, and even tremors. Physicians can look for a damaged central nervous system, enzyme functioning, and/or immune system performance by running lab tests such as brains scans, immune studies, and neurological evaluations.
What To Do
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity sufferers should avoid exposure to chemicals, foods, and drugs that trigger symptoms. Create a "safe" home that is free of triggering substances with the HealthMate Plus air purifier. The HealthMate Plus air purifier is designed and built specifically for the MCS sufferer.
Find nutritional supplementation, detoxification and desensitization therapies. To decide which is best for you, treatment options should be discussed with a physician who is knowledgeable about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.
