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New Aspects of Psychiatric Morbidity in Idiopathic Environmental Intolerances

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2006
To understand idiopathic environmental intolerances (IEI)-formerly multiple chemical sensitivities (MCS)-it is helpful to outline its characteristic psychiatric morbidity.We applied a standardized interview according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (SCID) to 305 environmental patients with and without IEI ...
Constanze, Hausteiner, Anne, Mergeay, Susanne, Bornschein, Thomas, Zilker, Hans, Förstl   +4 more
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Review of evidence for a toxicological mechanism of idiopathic environmental intolerance

Human & Experimental Toxicology, 2012
Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) is a medically unexplained disorder characterised by a wide variety of unspecific symptoms in different organ systems and attributed to nontoxic concentrations of chemicals and other environmental factors that are tolerated by the majority of individuals. Both exposure to chemicals and behavioural conditioning
Lh, Hetherington, Jm, Battershill
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Idiopathic environmental intolerances (IEI): myth and reality

Toxicology Letters, 2001
The psychogenic theory presupposes that idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) is an overvalued idea explained by psychological and psychosocial processes. The polysomatic symptoms are amplifications of complaints common to the general population, psychophysiological manifestations of stress and the stress-response, or symptoms of psychiatric ...
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Idiopathic Environmental Intolerances: Psychosomatic and Somatic Aspects

Dermatology and Psychosomatics / Dermatologie und Psychosomatik, 2003
Multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) or idiopathic environmental intolerances (IEI) (also called ‘eco-syndrome’) describes a syndrome of somatic and/or psychosomatic complaints of mostly subjective ...
B. Eberlein-König, J. Rakoski, S. Ruhdorfer, J. Huss-Marp, V. Grimm, H. Behrendt, J. Ring   +6 more
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Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance

Toxicological Reviews, 2003
Toxicogenic and psychogenic theories have been proposed to explain idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI). Part 2 of this article is an evidence-based causality analysis of the psychogenic theory using an extended version of Bradford Hill's criteria.
Herman, Staudenmayer, Karen E, Binkley, Arthur, Leznoff, Scott, Phillips   +3 more
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Pesticide-Initiated Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance in South Korean Farmers

Inhalation Toxicology, 2007
This study was designed to study patients with intolerance to pesticide smells. Ten subjects chosen were complaining of vague symptoms such as headache, dizziness, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, myalgia, flu-like symptoms, etc., whenever exposed to the pesticide smells even at low intensity. To determine whether the etiology of this kind of
Hae-Sung, Lee, So-Yong, Hong, Zoong-Rock, Hong, Hyo-Ook, Gil, Jong-Oh, Yang, Eun-Young, Lee, Mi-Jung, Han, Nam-Woon, Jang, Sae-Yong, Hong   +8 more
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Evidence for Overlap Between Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance and Somatoform Disorders

Psychosomatic Medicine, 2005
Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI), also known as multiple chemical sensitivity, is a chronic, polysymptomatic condition that cannot be explained by an organic disease. Physical and psychological complaints are believed to be sustained by low levels of chemically unrelated substances in the environment.
Josef, Bailer, Michael, Witthöft, Christine, Paul, Christiane, Bayerl, Fred, Rist   +4 more
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Behavioral conditioning and idiopathic environmental intolerance.

Occupational medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2000
Idiopathic environmental intolerance (IEI) is a poorly understood condition that may involve disturbances in immunologic, neurologic, endocrine, behavioral, emotional, and cognitive processes. This chapter reviews theories and evidence that behavioral conditioning processes, including pharmacologic sensitization, conditioned immunomodulation, and ...
N D, Giardino, P M, Lehrer
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Idiopathic environmental intolerances: overview.

Occupational medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2000
The editor discusses usage of the terms "iidiopathic environmental intolerance," "multiple chemical sensitivity," and "environmental illness." Also addressed are prevalence, theories of etiology, evaluation and treatment, and social and political implications.
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Idiopathic environmental intolerances: results of challenge studies.

Occupational medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2000
It has been postulated that psychophysiologic mechanisms may account for symptom generation in IEI. In this review, the similarity of IEI and panic disorder symptoms are noted. The results of various challenge studies, both with known panicogenic substances and self-identified triggers, are examined.
A, Leznoff, K E, Binkley
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