title: 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.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Meggs
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000503:physiopathology; D018777:Multiple Chemical Sensitivity / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012130:Respiratory Hypersensitivity / Q000503:physiopathology*