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Immune System Diseases > Hypersensitivity > Environmental Illness
Disorders of Environmental Origin > Environmental Illness

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Environmental Illness  

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  • Environmental Hypersensitivities
  • Environmental Hypersensitivity
  • Environmental Illnesses
  • Hypersensitivities, Environmental
  • Hypersensitivity, Environmental
  • Illness, Environmental
  • Illnesses, Environmental

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; coordinate with specific disease or source of illness; not for diseases caused by environmental pollution: index under specific disease and ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION or specific environmental pollutant

Scope note

  • A polysymptomatic condition believed by clinical ecologists to result from immune dysregulation induced by common foods, allergens, and chemicals, resulting in various physical and mental disorders. The medical community has remained largely skeptical of the existence of this "disease", given the plethora of symptoms attributed to environmental illness, the lack of reproducible laboratory abnormalities, and the use of unproven therapies to treat the condition. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D018876

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