How Do You Manage Environmental And Multiple Chemical Sensitivity?
• Assist patients to • Set goals towards wellness. • Help the patient to understand and accept their condition, their environment and the relationship between the two. • Help them to understand and accept themselves. • Help the patient to accept responsibility for their well-being. • Use a holistic approach taking into account the World Health Organization’s twelve determinants of health such as: • • Income and social status • Social support networks • Education and literacy, i.e. health literacy • Employment/Working conditions • Social environments • Physical environments • Personal health practices and coping skills • Healthy child development • Biology and genetic endowment • Health services • Gender • Culture • Foster a spirit of inquiry. • Build upon the body of evidence through research and scholarly activity. • Function through a well managed health care team. • Be tested for sensitivities by a good environmental physician.Tests may include: • Treadmill testing / six Minute Walk
