MCS, or multiple chemical sensitivities, is an illness characterized by adverse reactions to common materials in the modern environment. Symptoms often start after a strong exposure to pesticides or other chemical products.
Symptoms are very individual.
Many MCS sufferers improve with treatment and attention to their environments and lifestyles. However, managing MCS can be complex, difficult, and isolating for sufferers without a good support network. This site is one of many resources that can help you chart your own course to better health, and to feel the support of a community of people who understand your experiences. Therefore, people with MCS are fully within their rights to request reasonable accommodation in the workplace and elsewhere, to continue full and productive lives while their healing takes place. Speaking out will not only help you, but will help the many other sufferers who follow in your path.