What is Multiple Chemical Sensitivity

When someone has an adverse reaction to a chemical in their environment.

When I answer the door to a delivery man who enters my house for a few minutes to put a heavy parcel down and he is covered in Lynx aftershave I feel exactly like I am being punched in the face repeatedly. When he leaves I am in such a state I cannot think properly, I am highly distressed and I dry vomit and cough and void my bowels. I have nasty headaches as if someone is poking long steel needles into my eyes and head. I have to lie in a darkened room for 72 hours.
If someone kind takes me shopping I have to dart away from the smell of people. I get home and put my shopping away. I'm then ill for 72 hours and all the fresh vegetables go off. What a waste.
I don't go out much. I'm trapped in my home. There's no pill. The cure is for everyone to feel as I do and then we will stop using poison.

It is when your body cannot handle breathing in strong scents, specifically detergents like Tide, Gain, All, dryer sheets like Bounce, fabric softeners like Snuggle, strong perfumes and colognes, deodorants like Secret, Arid, strong cleaning products, air fresheners like Febreze, Glade, and many other things as such. We get dizzy, we have trouble speaking, we might faint, feel sick, nauseated, tired or emotional. We can't breathe properly. We become isolated and fearful. It isn't normal, goes against the grain of human nature.

Immunological response to your environment causing debilitating, life threatening reactions

Some people cannot process even small amounts of toxic [to them] triggers of chemical structures that others have no noticeable reactions to. When these people must remove themselves from these triggers and go to a queit space with clean air, and water to recover, we say they have MCS or chemical intolerance, or environmental intolerance. Really it is these people that are well, and their environment is toxic. Therefore many refer to them as canaries, as those in coal mines, that signal danger.

It is reduced tolerance to toxic chemicals in your environment caused by toxic chemical exposure.

There are various options of explaining the disease but the two most popular are its a ALLERGY or your body is allergic to various enviromental issues.

A normal reaction to the abnormal world conditions

MCS is a chronic illness that causes a person to not be able to tolerate chemicals that are typically tolerable.
When a chemical is intolerable, that means that it produces any number of sick-like symptoms, including those which I listed in a previous stub. It is also an environmental illness -- caused by what is in our environment. It is a syndrome, because it affects multiple organ systems.

Mcs is an adverse reaction to chemicals

MCS is a genetic disease that negatively impacts the body's ability to detox natural and synthetic chemicals, leading to the development of a toxic load and reactivity.