A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Diagnosing the tight building syndrome or diagnosing chemical hypersensitivity
AbstractThe abrupt exposure to urea foam formaldehyde insulation served as an alert to its spectrum of symptoms, including attacks of headache, flushing,laryngitis, dizziness, nausea, extreme weakness or exhausion, arthralgia, an inability to concentrate, unwarranted depression, arrhythmia, or muscle spasms, and baffled physicians from many specialties. Later it was learned that toluene, xylene, benzene, natural gas, trichloroethylene, and many other chemicals wre also capable of triggering chemical hypersensitivity. Other names for this condition include Environmentally Induced Illness (EI), the Tight Building Syndrome (TBS), the Sick Building Syndrome, and Building-Related Illness. The very symptoms patients complain of can be provoked within minutes and then subsequently alleviated with an intradermal injection of the appropriate strength of the triggering chemical. This technique aids in convincing the patient of the EI or TBS triggers so that the patient can begin to relate symptoms to environmental exposures and initiate measures to bring the disease under control. The key to safer buildings is increased ventilation, increased filtration of air, and decreased use of off-grassing synthetic materials.
Diagnosing the tight building syndrome or diagnosing chemical hypersensitivity
AbstractThe abrupt exposure to urea foam formaldehyde insulation served as an alert to its spectrum of symptoms, including attacks of headache, flushing,laryngitis, dizziness, nausea, extreme weakness or exhausion, arthralgia, an inability to concentrate, unwarranted depression, arrhythmia, or muscle spasms, and baffled physicians from many specialties. Later it was learned that toluene, xylene, benzene, natural gas, trichloroethylene, and many other chemicals wre also capable of triggering chemical hypersensitivity. Other names for this condition include Environmentally Induced Illness (EI), the Tight Building Syndrome (TBS), the Sick Building Syndrome, and Building-Related Illness. The very symptoms patients complain of can be provoked within minutes and then subsequently alleviated with an intradermal injection of the appropriate strength of the triggering chemical. This technique aids in convincing the patient of the EI or TBS triggers so that the patient can begin to relate symptoms to environmental exposures and initiate measures to bring the disease under control. The key to safer buildings is increased ventilation, increased filtration of air, and decreased use of off-grassing synthetic materials.
Diagnosing the tight building syndrome or diagnosing chemical hypersensitivity
Rogers, Sherry A. (author)
Environmental International ; 15 ; 75-79
1989-01-18
5 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Building dampness diagnosing the causes
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 1988
| European Patent Office | 2024
| European Patent Office | 2024
| European Patent Office | 2020
British Library Online Contents | 2003