And because of that small army, it needs to be taken seriously, even if you are convinced it's hogwash. If MCS advocates get their way, perfume and cologne will be banned in public buildings, insecticide spraying will be severely limited, and litigation will break the back of many a corporation. Roughly speaking, MCS is said to be an immune system or nervous system dysfunction resulting from an overload of offending agents. Often a single agent is blamed as the proverbial back-breaking straw.
Many sufferers claim it's ruined their lives.
They say the can't wear colored clothing, eat many of their favorite foods, live in normal houses. If you haven't suffered at least a dozen of the listed symptoms in the past year it's a bad sign because it means you're probably an android. MCS is so widely defined that if you haven't had a large number of the symptoms attributed to it, you must be mechanical. That is, the air is bubbled through water and the water is then injected into the patient. Because many of his patients complain they feel worse when the wind blows from that direction.