SPREADING THE WORD... I MEAN, WARNING!

 

 

MCS is a REAL disease.  The people who suffer with it EVERY DAY are REAL people.  Mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers, children.... aunts, uncles, grandparents...  REAL.  Just because YOU may not have a problem with fragrances doesn't mean that those around you aren't gasping for breath or blinded by the headache brought on by what you leave in your wake as you walk by.

An initial indication is headache when you are near any kind of fragrance.  It usually starts out around strong scents, but will increase in sensitivity until you are one of the sufferers who are a

CANARY IN A MINE SHAFT! 

The FIRST one to DROP!

As mentioned previously, eyes stinging, lungs burning and filling with mucus & coughing because of it, the HEADACHE... fatigue, depression and most of all, the most debilitating are the brain misfires... the anxiety attacks.  Would you like to suffer from all that just because someone walks by with perfume on among all the other fragrances they use daily?

The biggest problem concerning Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (or Intolerances) is the fact that it is a growing but NEW problem.  I have had a horrible time finding a doctor in the North Central Florida area who even KNOWS what MCS is!!  I have had to drive nearly two and a half HOURS to find someone who is EDUCATED in this growing disease!! 

Humans are beginning to hit the limits of chemical tolerances in their bodies.  Think about ALL the products you have in your home.  How many different fragrances do you use on a daily basis, because every one of those products include DIFFERENT fragrances, meaning different CHEMICALS being absorbed into your system.  Man made fragrance is a combination of man made chemicals.  Man made chemicals are TOXIC.  Check out the links in my previous posts.

I truly need EVERYONE to understand the carcinogenic effects of the TOXINS used in creating the fragrances in your home and on your body and the DEBILITATING effect that these are having on the people around you.

http://invisibledisabilities.org/ has started a campaign through the CLEANER INDOOR AIR part of their site, to choose NOT to wear or use fragrance OF ANY KIND.  To have you THINK about the pain and suffering YOU are causing the people around you. This site offers EDUCATION, ENCOURAGEMENT and a plethora of information to help everyone realize that just because you can't see an illness, doesn't mean the person next to you isn't suffering greatly from one.

The FRIENDSHIP OVER FRAGRANCE campaign they have on their site is an eye opener, http://cleanerindoorair.org/campaigns/choose-friendships-over-fragrances/

Would you INTENTIONALLY want to HURT another person? 

If you could do something as SIMPLE as NOT wearing fragrance or using fragranced products... WHY WOULDN'T YOU to help possibly SAVE another persons' LIFE!

Walking into a grocery store,

Shopping can be a challenge for an MCS sufferer.  If you don't have someone to go out into the world for you to pick up necessities, then you must venture out into the world of FRAGRANCE, SCENTS, PERFUMES... and the list goes on.

To date, I can't understand WHY anyone puts on fragrance to go OUT in public.  It isn't as though it is necessary.  It isn't as though anyone would be NAKED and traipsing around flaunting their cute little bodies in public if they DON'T wear perfume or fragrance.  Many people actually have it in their minds that they would be naked without it.

Unfortunately, with that state of mind, each time someone ventures into public, another MCS sufferer SUFFERS for it.  We can't go to the movies, no theatre, no dancing, no dinner out.... think about that.  Perfume wearers are JAILERS and the MCS sufferer is behind the steel bars of their homes.

There are articles on line and in hard copy outlining the toxic nature of perfumes and the ingredients you don't pay attention to.  http://www.rodalenews.com/perfume-ingredients
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=toxic-perfumes-and-colognes
or, if you still have doubts as to what I am trying to get across, how about DAVID SUZUKI @
http://davidsuzuki.org/issues/health/science/toxics/fragrance-and-parfum/
or how about?
http://www.naturallifemagazine.com/0210/perfume.htm

I can't see it being common for anyone to want to intentionally hurt another person and yet, when it comes to the toxicity in products all good scents flies out of sight. (Pun intended).

Use the available websites and find out the FRAGRANCE TOXICITY of what you are wearing in public, please.  Anything above a O for fragrance is toxic to MCS sufferers.  More than 12.6% of the US population and GROWING.

There ARE websites on line who's purpose is to inform the public of the ingredients NOT listed on the labels.  http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ is just one of them.
You want to look at the HAZARD rating.  For example, 10 is the HIGHEST score...

I copied and QUOTE from the EWG website, TWO examples, one men and one women: 

CHECK OUT THE RATING FOR FRAGRANCE.  CHECK OUT the FACT that you are wearing toxins that affect Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), lungs, eyes and even SKIN.

CALVIN KLEIN OBESSION MEN EAU DE TOILETTE (2007 formulation) the OVERALL HAZARD is rated a 10! 

Ingredient Concerns

Ingredient	Concerns	Score
FRAGRANCE	Ecotoxicology, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Miscellaneous, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive)	Data:
OXYBENZONE BENZOPHENONE-3 (Active Ingredient)	Enhanced skin absorption, Biochemical or cellular level changes, Developmental/reproductive toxicity, Endocrine disruption, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Persistence and bioaccumulation, Use restrictions (meets restrictions and warnings based on EWG review of company data)	Data:
OCTINOXATE ETHYLHEXYL METHOXYCINNAMATE (Active Ingredient)	Enhanced skin absorption, Biochemical or cellular level changes, Developmental/reproductive toxicity, Endocrine disruption, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Persistence and bioaccumulation	Data:
EXT D&C VIOLET 2	Cancer, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Use restrictions	Data:
BHT	Cancer, Developmental/reproductive toxicity, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive)	Data:
TARTRAZINE FDC YELLOW #5	Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Persistence and bioaccumulation, Use restrictions	Data:
ALCOHOL DENATURED	Enhanced skin absorption, Cancer, Developmental/reproductive toxicity, Multiple, additive exposure sources, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive)	Data:
PONCEAU SX FDC RED #4	Use restrictions	Data:
OCTISALATE ETHYLHEXYL SALICYLATE (Active Ingredient)	Enhanced skin absorption, Ecotoxicology, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Use restrictions (meets restrictions and warnings based on EWG review of company data)	Data:
PROPYLENE GLYCOL	Enhanced skin absorption, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Use restrictions	Data:
AVOBENZONE BUTYL METHOXYDIBENZOYLMETHANE (Active Ingredient)	Cancer, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Contamination concerns (BENZOIC ACID, 4-T-BUTYLBENZOIC ACID, BENZALDEHYDE, P-ANISIC ACID, ACETOPHENONE, DIBENZOYLMETHANE), Use restrictions (meets restrictions and warnings based on EWG review of company data)

How about one for WOMEN?

VICTORIA'S SECRET BBV DAILY BODY CARE COMFORT BODY MIST (2007 formulation)

Ingredient Concerns

Ingredient	Concerns	Score
FRAGRANCE	Ecotoxicology, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Miscellaneous, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive)	Data:
OCTINOXATE ETHYLHEXYL METHOXYCINNAMATE (Active Ingredient)	Enhanced skin absorption, Biochemical or cellular level changes, Developmental/reproductive toxicity, Endocrine disruption, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Persistence and bioaccumulation	Data:
BHT	Cancer, Developmental/reproductive toxicity, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive)	Data:
ALCOHOL DENATURED	Enhanced skin absorption, Cancer, Developmental/reproductive toxicity, Multiple, additive exposure sources, Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive)	Data:
OCTISALATE ETHYLHEXYL SALICYLATE (Active Ingredient)	Enhanced skin absorption, Ecotoxicology, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Use restrictions (meets restrictions and warnings based on EWG review of company data)	Data:
PROPYLENE GLYCOL	Enhanced skin absorption, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs), Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive), Use restrictions	Data:
AVOBENZONE BUTYL METHOXYDIBENZOYLMETHANE (Active Ingredient)	Cancer, Allergies/immunotoxicity, Contamination concerns (BENZOIC ACID, 4-T-BUTYLBENZOIC ACID, BENZALDEHYDE, P-ANISIC ACID, ACETOPHENONE, DIBENZOYLMETHANE), Use restrictions (meets restrictions and warnings based on EWG review of company data)	Data:
ALOE BARBADENSIS (ALOE VERA) LEAF EXTRACT ALOE BARBADENSIS LEAF EXTRACT	Use restrictions	Data:
CHAMOMILLA RECUTITA (MATRICARIA) LEAF EXTRACT CHAMOMILLA RECUTITA (MATRICARIA) FLOWER EXTRACT	None Identified	Data:

Awareness is Education

I have just ordered these cards.  THIS is my new LOGO. 

 

NO FRAGRANCE

Go FRAGRANCE FREE for the health of those around you

 

On the reverse is a compact paragraph of information regarding the

necessity of being FRAGRANCE FREE.

 

If anyone would like some of these cards to bring education and awareness

to friends, business colleagues or family, just drop me a line

and let me know contact information.

 

I certainly won't say NO to the help in spreading the word

for

FRAGRANCE FREE

living.

 

I mean, seriously, there are ALL KINDS of fragrance free products on the market now.  Why do YOU think the big companies are FINALLY manufacturing them?  Because, the population is getting SICK ON THE FRAGRANCES IN THEIR PRODUCTS.

 

BE AWARE!  Check, check and double check that you aren't still going to be reactive to the FRAGRANCE FREE products for battling odors and cleaning.  The underlying chemicals will probably still be there!!

 

 BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU ARE BUYING!

Perhaps I am a teacher, after all...

Perhaps I am not here to raise children, dogs, chickens or horses. 

Perhaps I am here to get sick and make other people aware of what they are contributing to make the people around them sick, intolerant of the air they breathe and susceptible to every little fragrance, scent and chemical.

Perhaps it is all in teaching Enviro-MENTAL illness and health CARING.

Perhaps the last few years have just been a lead-in to my actual purpose in life. 

Perhaps it is my lot in life to educate even if, like a stubborn child in the classroom, the people don't want to listen. 

Perhaps I just need to find a way to get them to listen.

Perhaps I need to find a way to make them all aware.

Perhaps I can do that before this MCS finds a way to take my life.

Perhaps if it does end up causing an illness which takes my life, someone else can pick up my placard and get the perfume companies and big businesses to listen.

Perhaps the world CAN be FRAGRANCE FREE... if we try hard enough. 

I've bled before, I can bleed again.

Detoxify or Die... and many others

I am finding so many publications about environmental toxicity and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1887202048/ref=s9_cxhsh_co_g14_i3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=left-3&pf_rd_r=1J3QWYRMTKFWDYQ9MQT6&pf_rd_t=3201&pf_rd_p=1280661842&pf_rd_i=typ01


My AMAZON.COM search came up with these:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=multiple+chemical+sensitivity&sprefix=multiple+chemical+sensitivity%2Caps%2C1191

I had never heard of MCS until I contracted it and was suffering SO completely from the symptoms that I HAD to find a specialized MD just to diagnose.  That was in 2010, even though I have actually suffered for over 13 years!!

And don't believe this one. The ONLY real cure is ABSTINANCE, AVOIDANCE OF TRIGGERS, TOXINs AND VOCs.  If this author says they have a cure, I doubt it is anything except a good attempt at parting the MCS sufferer of their money.  They are fooling you and themselves.
Healing Severe Chemical and EMF Sensitivity: Our Breakthrough Cure for Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) and... by Gary Patera (Sep 8, 2012


Little did anyone mention that it was the late 1980's to the late 1990's when experts were really pushing to get the disease NOTICED.

The lack of information even three years ago was astounding.  The perfume companies REALLY do OWN THE WORLD. 

Do you think we could ever label them what they should be labeled?  Plague masters... even (possibly) murderers.  I wonder now, after reading so much about MCS, how many people have died of the symptoms brought on by chemical overload and been misdiagnosed by the health UN-care professionals who would rather buried their heads in the sand than admit to toxins poisoning us all from fragrance/perfumes/chemicals and VOCs on a daily basis.

It is a sad, sad world when the big business continues to brainwash and rule society.

Little does the population know that they are poisoned more and more every day, by their own hand.

I have been in contact with several 'experts' over the last several weeks who have continued to verify what I have posted at the beginning of this blog.  I believe that my body, my 'test tube' was full to overflowing and now it is breaking down.

When the conversation of my MCS comes up, I am always describing myself as the "Canary in a mine shaft".  Imagine my surprise when I got onto the website article by Peggy Wolff, M.S., R.N.C.S.;

http://www.environmentalhealthconsultant.com/Talkamh.pdf

which I found on her main site at, http://www.environmentalhealthconsultant.com/index.htm

Ms. Wolff has given my permission to reprint her articles and I thank her rightly for it.
I am setting up packages which I will be sending to Medical offices, Hospitals and Clinics here in North Central Florida to try to bring awareness.  The more experts, the better. 

I mean, who should believe ME... I am only the Canary in the Mine Shaft.
 



POSTERS AVAILABLE IN .PDF FORMAT FOR...

businesses,
homes,
medical offices
and Churches.

You can print these posters out free.  BUT...
wouldn't it be nice to donate to a site that is REALLY working at bringing the awareness out

http://cleanerindoorair.org/publications/choose-friendships-over-fragrances-posters/