date:Jul 23, 2012
being around various smells and chemicals such as cleaning products, gasoline, insecticides, paint and perfumes. It also asks the person to rate the symptoms.
Using the questionnaire, researchers discovered that 20 percent of 400 patients examined met the chemical intolerance criteria.
Chemical intolerance occurs in one of five primary care patients yet is rarely diagnosed by busy practitioners, the study concluded. Symptoms may resolve or improve with the avoidance of salient chemical, dietar