MEDICAL CARE
Until the early 2000s, there were no definitive treatments for chemical injury and chemical sensitivity. With the development of the neural protocol for neural sensitization, a major debilitating component of chemical injury and sensitivity, medical practitioners have a tool to not just alleviate symptoms but reverse some of the damage caused by chemical injury.
Guidelines to Medical Care for Treatable Forms of Chemical Injury and Sensitivity
How Chemical Injury/Chemical Sensitivity Affects the Body. The range of affects that occur with injury
Treatable Forms of Chemical Injury: A listing of the treatable forms with a short description of each form.
Steps in Medical Evaluation and Treatment: A protocol for medical practitioners and patients
Testing for Treatable Chemical Injury: Essential tests for proper diagnosis of chemical injury and its extent
Reaction Factsheet: Guide to how to handle reactions experienced when away from home.
Distinguishing Infection from Inflammation: An important distinction in proper diagnosis and treat of chemical injury and chemical sensitivity.
Medications: The effects of medications on detoxification and other systems in the body.
Anesthesia: The effects anethesia can have on chemically injured and chemically sensitive patients.
Inhalers: The effects inhalers can have on chemically compromised patients with breathing problems.
Cardiovascular Effects: A list of the major impacts of chemical injury on the heart and blood vessels.
Emergency Room Testing: Suggested tests during an emergency room visit after a major reaction.
Biochemical Needs in Chemical Injury: Explanation of the nutritional requirements for proper operation of the detoxification system and general health.
Methacholine Challenge: Why chemically injured patients should avoid this respiratory test.
Diffusing Capacity
Food Intolerance
How to Know Whether an Exposure to Chemicals Caused an Illness
Workers’ Compensation
Toxic Torts
“Independent” Medical Exams
Toxic Encephalopathy (.pdf)
Reactive Airway Disease (.pdf)
Neurologic Testing
Neurophysiologic Testing
Use of Questionnaires
Health and Environmental History Questionnaire (This document is not under copyright)
Follow-up Questionnaire (This document is not under copyright)
Multiple Sclerosis
Myasthenia Gravis
Scleroderma
Ziem, AUG 2001: Medical Evaluation and Treatment of Patients with Chemical Injury and Sensitivity (.pdf)
Ziem, OCT 2003: Endocrine Changes in Patients with Chronic Illness Following Chemical Overexposure
Ziem, Profile of Patients with Chemical Injury and Sensitivity, Environ Health Perspect 105: 417-437, 1997 (.pdf)
Ziem, Profile of Patients with Chemical Injury and Sensitivity, Part II. Intern J. Toxicol 18: 401-409, 1999 (.pdf)
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