Most MSers report differences in their ability, during the course of the day. The observable reactions of the total living individual to enviromental insults can be adequately delt with in terms of general adaptation. The allergic state is one of potential specific reactivity. As such it is the related clinical concept of specific adaptation. In contrast to Clinical Immunology, specific diagnosis and treatment consist of an interdigitating continuum.
Drug therapy is minimised and usually unnecessary.
Although the clinical work-up is highly individualised and more time consuming, and therapy is often restrictive, clinical results tend to be relatively superior in that advancement of the process, and adverse complications are far less apt to occur. The concept and application of Clinical Ecology differs from Clinical Immunology and many other aspects of Allopathic Medicine in that both the environment exposures and the vulnerable individual in their constant state of interreaction, are regarded as biologic wholes. It is the dynamic interreaction that is important - the totality of the response arising from the thrusts and parries which characterise this phenomenon in its holistic form as it is encountered in nature. What the Clinical Ecologist is interested in is a totality as dynamic and reactive as a pot of bubbling porridge. Clinical Ecologists are not uninterested in the mechanisms of these man-environment interrelationships which are accentuated in the presence of individual susceptibility.