This World Stinks

fragrancefree @ 2008-09-27T08:35:00

2008-09-27T13:42:51Z

I quit.

I am a special education teacher. Someone suggested to me that I'd work well with this adult she new, who had support staff because of her disability... connections were made, I hit it off with the woman, and her parents, they offered me a part time job on Saturdays... sweet way to make some extra cash, huh?

...

...

So I get hired, and go to her house for training ... her live in caregiver smokes. I said I was allergic and she said "I'll just keep it in my room" where she left it lit, door open, and ran in for a puff every few minutes. The next week I mentioned again that I was allergic to her cigarettes and candles...explained briefly, and left with the woman I support for the day. 3rd week almost killed me with the air fresheners she'd sprayed to try to cover it up...

So, Dr. put me on Loratadine so I could cope, but advised me not to stay in that job or on that med. "Your symptoms may be reduced, but your still filling your lungs with chemicals your body can't break down and flush out. You still don't have the enzyme needed for that, so exposure is still bad, just less painful."

I've now quit that job, my last shift is coming up in a few weeks. The live-in is mad at me because I said something to the administrators when the administrators asked how I liked the job. She says "Why didn't you talk to me?" I said, "well, I did twice, and that only made things worse". Now she won't let me in the house, which since I'm quitting, is fine. 3 shifts of awkwardness left (one today).

So, MCS lost me a pretty chill job. I don't know why I forgot I can't go to people's houses. It was dumb of me to forget. Kind of funny though.

View Poll: MCS and homes

I'm taking my older air filter up to my classroom this weekend. :)

fragrancefree @ 2008-09-23T08:54:00

2008-09-23T13:56:07Z

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2008-07-30T19:30:54Z

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Something to be aware of

2008-07-27T15:35:55Z

This is more than a little frightening. I rarely post news articles to LJ, but this one seemed relevant.

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U.S. Rushes to Change Workplace Toxin Rules
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Political appointees at the Department of Labor are moving with unusual speed to push through in the final months of the Bush administration a rule making it tougher to regulate workers' on-the-job exposure to chemicals and toxins.

The agency did not disclose the proposal, as required, in public notices of regulatory plans that it filed in December and May. Instead, Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao's intention to push for the rule first surfaced on July 7, when the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) posted on its Web site that it was reviewing the proposal, identified only by its nine-word title.

The text of the proposed rule has not been made public, but according to sources briefed on the change and to an early draft obtained by The Washington Post, it would call for reexamining the methods used to measure risks posed by workplace exposure to toxins. The change would address long-standing complaints from businesses that the government overestimates the risk posed by job exposure to chemicals.

The rule would also require the agency to take an extra step before setting new limits on chemicals in the workplace by allowing an additional round of challenges to agency risk assessments.

The department's speed in trying to make the regulatory change contrasts with its reluctance to alter workplace safety rules over the past 7 1/2 years. In that time, the department adopted only one major health rule for a chemical in the workplace, and it did so under a court order.

In an interview, Labor's assistant secretary for policy, Leon R. Sequeira, said officials did not disclose their interest in the rule change earlier because they were uncertain until recently whether they wanted to follow through and pursue a regulation.

But the fast-track approach has brought criticism from workplace-safety advocates, unions and Democrats in Congress. Some accuse the Bush administration of working secretly to give industry a parting gift that will help it delay or block safety regulations after President Bush leaves office.

"It's an insult to America's workers for the Department of Labor to be spending its time in the last year of this administration allegedly fine-tuning the details of how to do these regulations when, other than the one ordered by a court, they have issued no major worker-health regulations," said Adam Finkel, a professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey who is a former health standards director at Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. "The reality is there's a great need to light a fire under this moribund agency to do something -- anything -- to protect workers."

Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said: "The fact that the Department of Labor seems to be engaged in secret rulemaking makes me highly suspicious that some high-level political appointees are up to no good. This Congress will not stand for the gutting of health and safety protections as the Bush administration heads out the door."

Sequeira said department policy prevents him from discussing the details of a draft rule, how it was written and by whom, until it is reviewed by the OMB. The public will have 30 days to critique the draft after it is published.

"It's premature to comment," he said. "People appear to be making assumptions about what's in the draft."

Last week, the proposal was defended in an opinion piece in the New York Sun written by Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a fellow at the conservative-leaning Hudson Institute. She wrote that it would bring a "rationalized approach" to risk assessments and probably move away from the incorrect assumption in current rules that workers stay in a job, with daily exposure to the same chemicals or toxins, for as long as 45 years.

Furchtgott-Roth did not mention in the article that she was one of the consultants who worked with Labor beginning in September 2007 on a $349,000 outside study of the risk-assessment process.

The OMB has been trying to address the issue of risk assessment since 2006, when it attempted to set new standards governing how a host of federal agencies reach their conclusions. That plan was withdrawn after the National Academy of Sciences called it "fatally flawed" because it lacked scientific grounding.

Early this year, Deborah Misir, a political deputy in Labor's office of the assistant secretary for policy, worked with the OMB to draft a new risk-assessment rule. A former ethics adviser to Bush, Misir had complained that the department's assumption of a 45-year working life overstated the risk of exposure.

Typically, before drafting a rule, agency officials consult with staff members, lawyers and outside experts, and sometimes industry and other interested parties. But Misir initially did not consult scientific and workplace-risk-assessment experts in OSHA and the Mine Safety and Health Administration, according to sources briefed on her work.

Charles Gordon, a recently retired Labor Department lawyer who worked on regulations in OSHA's solicitor's office for 32 years, said the policy office does not usually take the lead on rules involving risk assessments. "Normally, issues of health science like risk assessment are performed by OSHA and MSHA, that have statutory authority and expertise in the area," Gordon said.

Misir waited until April to seek comments from the department's experts. They objected to both the legality and substance of the proposal and recommended that Chao not pursue such a rule, according to the sources.

A few weeks later, when the agency listed regulations "under development or review" in its semiannual agenda, the risk-assessment proposal was not included. But a draft was circulating among a small group of advisers, according to a date-stamped copy obtained by The Post.

In spring 2007, the department listed 38 potential workplace-safety regulations as works in progress. Among its priorities were a proposal to reduce deaths and injuries from cranes and derricks, following a spate of fatal accidents; a new rule to reduce illnesses from silica, which can cause respiratory diseases; and a proposal to change regulation of beryllium, a light metal that can harm the lungs of dental and metal workers.

But virtually overnight, changing the risk-assessment process became the agency's top priority for workplace regulations. The July submission of its proposal broke a deadline set by White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten, who had ordered that all agencies submit proposed regulations before June 1 and "resist the historical tendency of administrations to increase regulatory activity in their final months."

Nevertheless, the OMB agreed to work with Labor on the proposal. The July 7 posting on its Web site shocked many inside and outside the agency who had been following the events.

"This is flat-out secrecy," said Peg Seminario, director of health and safety policy at the AFL-CIO. "They are trying to essentially change the job safety and health laws and reduce required workplace protections through a midnight regulation."

Seminario said she was stunned that the administration would consider the rule its top priority, when for years it has "slow-walked and stalled" safety rules that would reduce worker deaths and injuries from diacetyl and beryllium.

David Michaels, an epidemiologist and workplace safety professor at George Washington University's School of Public Health, said the rule would add another barrier to creating safety standards, in the name of improving them.

"This is a guarantee to keep any more worker safety regulation from ever coming out of OSHA," Michaels said. "This is being done in secrecy, to be sprung before President Bush leaves office, to cripple the next administration."

an atmosphere as unrelenting as rock

2008-05-03T23:33:37Z

The line "an atmosphere as unrelenting as rock" in the following poem made me think of how MCS makes me feel. Not quite what the poem meant, but I related to it. Perhaps you will enjoy this poem as well!

Tar by C. K. Williams

The first morning of Three Mile Island: those first disquieting, uncertain,
mystifying hours.
All morning a crew of workmen have been tearing the old decrepit roof
off our building,
and all morning, trying to distract myself, I've been wandering out to
watch them
as they hack away the leaden layers of asbestos paper and disassemble
the disintegrating drains.
After half a night of listening to the news, wondering how to know a
hundred miles downwind
if and when to make a run for it and where, then a coming bolt awake
at seven
when the roofers we've been waiting for since winter sent their ladders
shrieking up our wall,
we still know less than nothing: the utility company continues making
little of the accident,
the slick federal spokesmen still have their evasions in some semblance
of order.
Surely we suspect now we're being lied to, but in the meantime, there
are the roofers,
setting winch-frames, sledging rounds of tar apart, and there I am, on
the curb across, gawking.

I never realized what brutal work it is, how matter-of-factly and harrow-
ingly dangerous.
The ladders flex and quiver, things skid from the edge, the materials are
bulky and recalcitrant.
When the rusty, antique nails are levered out, their heads pull off; the
underroofing crumbles.
Even the battered little furnace, roaring along as patient as a donkey,
chokes and clogs,
a dense, malignant smoke shoots up, and someone has to fiddle with a
cock, then hammer it,
before the gush and stench will deintensify, the dark, Dantean broth
wearily subside.
In its crucible, the stuff looks bland, like licorice, spill it, though, on
your boots or coveralls,
it sears, and everything is permeated with it, the furnace gunked with
burst and half-burst bubbles,
the men themselves so completely slashed and mucked they seem almost
from another realm, like trolls.
When they take their break, they leave their brooms standing at attention
in the asphalt pails,
work gloves clinging like Br'er Rabbit to the bitten shafts, and they slouch
along the precipitous lip,
the enormous sky behind them, the heavy noontime air alive with shim-
mers and mirages.

Sometime in the afternoon I had to go inside: the advent of our vigil was
upon us.
However much we didn't want to, however little we would do about it,
we'd understood:
we were going to perish of all this, if not now, then soon, if not soon,
then someday.
Someday, some final generation, hysterically aswarm beneath an at-
mosphere as unrelenting as rock,
would rue us all, anathematize our earthly comforts, curse our surfeits
and submissions.
I think I know, though I might rather not, why my roofers stay so clear
to me and why the rest,
the terror of that time, the reflexive disbelief and distancing, all we should
hold on to, dims so.
I remember the president in his absurd protective booties, looking
absolutely unafraid, the fool.
I remember a woman on the front page glaring across the misty Sus-
quehanna at those looming stacks.
But, more vividly, the men, silvered with glitter from the shingles, cling-
ing like starlings beneath the eaves.
Even the leftover carats of tar in the gutter, so black they seemed to suck
the light out of the air.
By nightfall kids had come across them: every sidewalk on the block was
scribbled with obscenities and hearts.

Auto Purchasing

2008-03-30T01:32:40Z

When buying a car, the last thing that happens is the dealership "details" the car. After all the paperwork, they vacuum and dust and make it all pretty...

And they give it new car smell!!!

Last time a new car came into my life, much explaining was done about allergies before the car got detailed. When we went to pick up the car, it had had new car smell done to it. I had to call a friend to come get me, and I couldn't be in the car for almost a month.

Anyone have any advice - what do I say to make them listen??!??!?

fragrancefree @ 2007-08-17T07:27:00

2007-08-17T14:27:53Z

From Treehugger: Do you hate walking into candle and soap shops, or drugstores that reek of perfume? That headachy and head-spinning feeling shouldn’t be ignored. Chances are that you have sensitive olfactory glands warning you that something isn’t good for your body. A whole host of nasty products go into synthetic smells, and some are poisonous.

News to anyone here?

I'm ready for my bubble, Doctor. (Questions too)

2007-08-04T20:34:57Z

Good grief. I thought I had reached the limits of absurdity in reacting to the river & tap water in Colorado. But no, that would be too easy. I now can provoke my typical anaphylactic allergic reaction (swollen lips, throat, itching...) by going into a room with a lot of chemical fragrances.

I've know for several years that chemical fragrances can trigger a migraine for me, but am new to having a anaphylactic reaction to it! My house is chemical fragrance free. I've put the whole story behind the cut, if you want to read the circumstances of the reactions. I have nasty corn allergy and far too much experience with the anaphylactic reaction.

Questions for you:
How did you find out that you are sensitive and/or allergic to fragrances?
What kinds of reactions and symptoms to do you have?
How do you cope with this?
Could you share any of your tips and tricks for coping with an over perfumed world?
Do you see an allergist?
If you use any meds, what has worked best for you?

Thanks for sharing your experiences and wisdom.

Here is the the scenario:

Thursday: ran out to the car in the rain, stopped to pick up a friend who was walking home in the downpour. Drove about 5 blocks with her. I opened the windows so that all the perfumed lotions etc. she was wearing would not give me a headache. Drove 5 more min. to cafe to meet my fiancee. I was getting the reaction warning of tingling in my lips, but ignored it because I had not had anything to eat or drink for several house, so it could not possibly be a reaction. Yeah. Right.

When I sat down, my fiancee looked at me and said "What happened?" I was getting Elvis lip (right top lip puffs up faster to give me that lovely look.) I chugged some benadryl and we tried to figure out what had gone wrong. The only things I was exposed to were rain and perfumes, none of which I ATE. So we just chalked it up to a delayed reaction (I typically react w/in .5 to 20 min after exposure), and didn't think more about it.

Yesterday I went to pick up a friend at the car dealership and went into the office with her for about 5 min. There was a strong chemical/fake floral smell that was making my eyes water so I went outside to wait for her to finish up. As I sat outside I was feeling increasingly anxious, for no obvious reason. When she came out, she looked at me oddly and asked if I was okay. I didn't think anything about it till I got in the car and realized that I was getting duck lips. Ugggh. I had not eaten or drunk anything for at least several hours. I did not touch the fragrance sources, and was not directly sprayed with anything. I thought I could drive us home, but I had to pull over and swig down a bunch of benadryl as my throat was getting tight and itchy.

So, what is the DEAL! I'm having my typical corn reaction to something in the AIR?? Reacting to the water is not enough? I've done a little reading on fragrance allergies and the main type is a contact dermatitis, which I don't have. Here is a basic explanation of the physiology of the reaction.

"Irritant reactions to fragrances differ from allergies. In most allergic reactions, the body reacts to an allergen that it perceives as a harmful invader by triggering the cells of the body to release certain chemicals. These chemicals, such as histamines, trigger allergy symptoms.

Unlike most allergens, fragrance materials are not protein-based, and they are generally too small to be detected by the body. Instead, they act as a hapten, binding with proteins in the skin. As they do so, they modify the proteins, causing the body to perceive the proteins as a foreign substance, thus triggering a reaction." http://allergy.health.ivillage.com/cosmeticschemicalsmetals/fragrancesensitivity2.cfm

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh. Do I have to cary a filtering mask with me or only go to open air/environmentally responsible places from now on or just stay home? I can't take benadryl without needing a nap, so I'd rather look like bizarro woman in a mask than be groggy or sleep through the day.

Could I possibly get a new body? Maybe have a brain transplant? I am throughly sick of being sick and sick of being me. x-posted to food allergies

greetings!

2007-07-24T05:14:58Z

Hi there, I'm new to this community, and happy to have found it!

I am mainly just sensitive to fragrance, but pretty seriously so...well, strong chemical scents of any sort mess me up, too, but the regular problem is fragrance. perfume, scented laundry soap, you all know what I'm talking about; i just wish it was more widely known that perfume makes people sick. i recently had a 3 hour airplane flight with a perfume wearer just ahead of me, gross.

anyway, I don't have any pressing issues, just thought I'd say hi, but also ask if anyone has ever encountered hair was without fragrance... i LOVE hair wax but can't use it anymore because of the perfumes.

fragrancefree @ 2007-07-02T10:16:00

2007-07-02T15:15:56Z

John Freida - how I both love and loathe thee = take the fragrance out of your nifty nifty conditioners...

air purifier selection help

2007-05-19T15:06:05Z

Hey guys,

I'm trying to purchase an air purifier that will tide me over through the summer smog season. I just want a unit for my bedroom to have on while i'm not home and when i'm asleep so that i'll at least sleep well in there. I'm asthmatic and seem to react severely to smog, cleaning products, perfumes, bug sprays and cigarette smoke (nobody smokes in my home, however it does seep in through the outside windows). My biggest concern at this moment is the smog since i had such a horrible time during the last smog advisory.

Firstly, I have no idea what the ionizer is supposed to do, but do know to look for a HEPA filter.
Option 1
Option 2

Air purifiers

2007-03-26T16:31:46Z

First off, thanks to all who offered advice last week about the scent incident at my house. Your advice worked so well that I never got sick from the melted plastic. :)

One piece of advice that I received was to purchase an air purifier. I purchased a small air purifier, but I'd like to purchase something that is more geared towards multiple chemical sensitivities rather than for allergens like pollen, cat dander and dust (I'm not allergic to any of those). My allergies are to chemical scents. Does anyone have any advice for a good air purifier?

In need of immediate advice

2007-03-22T16:57:32Z

I'm in a bit of a predicament and am hoping that someone out there has some advice. I've only got a few hours to resolve the problem...

I just received an email from my roommate saying that he accidentally melted the plastic handle of his coffee pot all over the stove. As a result, my house now smells of burnt plastic. Apparently the smell is quite bad.

I have severe sensitivities to chemical scents, and am still recovering from a very bad exposure to something that happened yesterday. Suffice to say, my system is already compromised.

I'm currently at work, and won't be home for another 6 hours or so. What can I recommend that he do to get rid of the smell so that I don't have a bad reaction when I get home?

He already has some windows opened, and I've asked him to fill a few small bowls with vinegar around the kitchen.

Help!

(x-posted)

Scent free products

2007-03-01T21:12:19Z

For any of you looking for scent-free products, here's a great Canadian web resource. :)

www.scentfree.ca

good cities for allergy/MCS sufferers

2006-11-27T21:15:09Z

I live in Cleveland, and the horrible air quality/pollution combined with the tendency of Clevelanders to wear a lot of fragrance has been making my allergies and eczema miserable. Does anyone know what cities (American or Canadian, but hey, I'd be willing to move abroad for a while) or areas are known for being allergy/MCS friendly? (For example, good air quality, low pollen count, perfume and smoke free or restricted, etc). This can be something you've heard (I know Arizona is a great place for allergy sufferers and Halifax in Canada is a perfume free zone), but I'd also love to hear from personal experience where to go and where to avoid.

x-posted to natural_living, eczematic, and fragrancefree.

aftershave?

2006-09-24T00:14:59Z

So I don't shave, but my boyfriend does, and his aftershave makes me feel like I'm going to asphyxiate. He says he needs something to prevent irritation after shaving... Do any of you know of an aftershave or aftershave like product that is as natural and unscented as possible? Natural scent is ok. He doesn't like witch hazel.
Thank you so much!

natural static guard

2006-09-18T16:36:06Z

I've recently become allergic to all synthetic scents...perfume, cologne, paint, nail polish and scented hair care products completely throw my system for a loop.

I need to find an anti-static solution though, because the dry weather is coming here in Ottawa (Canada) and my hair and clothes are starting to become unmanageable. Any recommendations on products or home remedies?

Sunblock!

2006-08-11T00:23:57Z

Oh how I am loving doing product reviews today.

My new love: California Baby sunblock, SPF 35. Scent-free, apparently chemical-free, gentle on my skin. OK, it is very thick and leaves a bit of a whitish film... A potential drawback for those with darker skin than mine who don't like looking washed out (it makes my tattoo look a little faded, but I can live with that since it's keeping my tat from ACTUALLY fading). But it's a vast improvement on my previous sunblock (Neutrogena for Sensitive Skin) which was making me sick.

Just thought I'd share.

I also hear that Aveeno has come out with a new fragrance-free sunblock (which may or may not be marketed for babies).

Don't mean to spam, thought this may be of interest.

2006-06-04T04:16:50Z

Hey all!

I thought this may be of interest to some people? I’ve been inspired and have decided to create my own community. Basically an allergy friendly, intolerance friendly,specialist diet friendly community specialising in recipes that are:

Dairy free, Egg free, Gluten-free, Nut Free, Rice Free, Sugar Free, Soy Free, Nightshade veggie free, Seafood free, vegan, vegetarian, and recipes low in: Salicylates, Amines & Glutamate. (I will be adding to this list)

Click here to see its profile: http://community.livejournal.com/special_recipes/profile

Thanks!

Amezce

Should Perfume Be Banned In Public Places?

2006-05-31T15:12:07Z

http://www.ctv.ca/canadaam
top right - please vote YES!

spread the word, repost and revote - it's only at 51% right now.
if it were an overwhelming YES vote, it might help raise awareness a little!!!

a fragrance-free graduation

2006-05-20T02:53:45Z

hey all, i'm graduating from college next monday, and i was pleased to find this message included in the commencement packet:

"We have a parent of a graduating senior who is extremely sensitive in a debilitating way to fragrances of most any kind. She will be sitting with several hearing-impaired parents in front of the first row of seniors. I ask you as a courtesy to her and to your classmate who is her daughter to please not wear any perfumes or colognes or smoke any celebratory cigars that might cause a reaction and force her to leaev the ceremony. thank you very much on behalf of this family for your cooperation on this matter."
-secretary of the college

my mom and i are both very allergic to fragrances/MCS, and while she isn't able to attend my graduation because of a surgery, i'm happy to know that Oberlin College is supportive of fragrance and chemical sensitivities. although my sensitivity isn't severe enough that i'd have to leave, fragrances still give me pretty bad reactions. this will make graduation a little easier for me, too!

Soap...

2006-05-01T09:22:39Z

My husband *must* use anti-bacterial soap (due to a recurring issue with his leg)and I am having more and more trouble coping with the soaps in the bathroom. Does anyone here know of an unscented (doesn't have to be fragrance-free, sicne it's not for my use) anti-bacterial bath soap?

Thanks!

Yes, it's all in your head.

2006-04-08T01:19:25Z

Hehe.

I read this comic strip, and immediately thought of all the MCS sufferers out there.

fragrancefree @ 2006-04-05T21:42:00

2006-04-06T02:44:56Z

Hives from head to toe!

Why?!??????!??!!!!!!?

Natural febreeze???

2006-04-05T03:19:15Z

I love the idea of febreeze (since sometimes clothes that go through the washer are still a little stinky!) but I hate the chemically smell of it! I also have a couple of co-workers with multiple chemical sensitivities, so I am in search of a natural alternative. I have tried putting baking soda in the wash and that works pretty well, but I also want some kind of after treatment (for when I forget or when laundry needs a deodorizing boost).

Any ideas?

(x-posted to naturalfamily.)