MCS Treatments

Statistical Results of a Survey of the Experience of 351 MCS Patients with 160 Therapies

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Lynn Lawson, author of Staying Well in a Toxic World, has referred to MCS Information Exchange as "that superbly done, indispensable, annotated survey of MCS treatments." The survey was cited three times in the 1998 edition of Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes by Drs. Nicholas Ashford and Claudia Miller.

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The following are sample lines from the table of results. For complete information, go to Ordering MCS Treatment Information.

	Total #	Effect unclear	Harmful	Did not help	Slight help	Major help	Enormous help
19. Acupuncture	173	24 13.9%	21 12.1%	31 17.9%	52 30.1%	33 19.1%	12 6.9%
142. Prozac	63	4 6.3%	35 55.6%	5 7.9%	9 14.3%	8 12.7%	2 3.2%

Therapies surveyed include Neurontin, magnets, ozone, hydrogen peroxide, mercury amalgam removal, macrobiotic diet, juicing, EPD, Diflucan, Ultra-Clear, homeopathy, Nambudripad desensitization, Total Body Modification, chelation, massage, transfer factor, biofeedback, Melatonin, Prozac, and others.

In investigating various therapies, I have attempted to ferret out information while maintaining a scientific attitude and a healthy degree of skepticism. In the booklets listed on the page Ordering MCS Treatment Information, I describe some of these therapies, using quotations from their leading proponents and including words of caution from experts with a differing viewpoint. Quotations also are included from people who had great success with a specific therapy or found it harmful. I try to point out to readers what questions they should be asking about some of these therapies and where problems might lie.

MCS Information Exchange draws upon my two decades of experience with Multiple Chemical Sensitivities as a patient myself and as the mother of three daughters with MCS. Because of our long and expensive search for effective therapies and the networking I have done with others with MCS, many of them quite desperate, I saw a real need for a mechanism that would allow those with MCS to share information quickly about what treatments are helpful, what ones are potentially dangerous, and what ones may deplete their already strained finances with no benefit. My information service is of necessity based upon anecdotal evidence. That is not ideal, but it is better than nothing when real scientific evidence is simply not available.