Editorial Commentaries: Multiple Chemical Sensitivities–Chemical Sensitivity as a Symptom of Airway Inflammation

Abstract

The term multiple chemical sensitivity confuses etiology with diagnosis. Chemical sensitivity is a symptom expressed by patients. The symptoms complex is also expressed by the majority of patients with asthma reactive airway dysfunction syndrome or rhinitis following a single acute exposure, called reactive upper airway dysfunction syndrome. The chemically sensitivity patient merits evaluation for upper airway and bronchial reactivity that may cause extra-airway symptomatology.

Key Words:

• multiple chemical sensitivity
• treatment
• human
• reactive upper airway disease
• reactive airway disease
• methacholine challenge