Comments on: Hamburg hospital offers rooms for patients with MCS and environmental illness

By: Laurie Larrison

Laurie Larrison — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:11:30 +0000

Thank goodness there is progress somewhere. I live in the U.S. and have MCS, reactive airway disease and allergies. Most docs still treat me as if I am crazy, with the exception of my allergy doc and one other. I hope that this progress will continue and the U.S. will be pressured to take MCS and other environmentally connected illnesses more seriously.

By: Harry Clark

Harry Clark — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:05:16 +0000

Thankyou Silvia for the great article and news. and thanks Christi for the translation that allowed me to read such good news. This example of environmental rooms is going to be used by us in Australia to press our government to include environmental rooms in the just announced multibillion dollar New Hosptial in one of our capital cities. wish us luck
Harry
MCS News
MCS Society of Australia

By: Silvia

Silvia — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:16:35 +0000

Hi Kate,

Sure we give you the permission to translate the article. You can use the photo as well. Just add a link to CSN.

Best regards from Germany,Silvia

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:46:18 +0000

Hi,I was wondering if you would accept that I translate a part of this article in french, adding a link to your website.

With my best regards,
Kate

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:31:02 +0000

What a good and so necessary initiative ! hoping others will follow.

By: Rodothea

Rodothea — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:14:34 +0000

Dear Marsha,
You can find useful information at the following address:
http://emrojapan.com/emnews/content/339.html
This is related to the following which is mentioned above-
«The room environment is cleaned with fragrance free detergents, but a disinfecting cleaning is essential to neutralize odors, so the patient is offered the use of effective microorganisms (EM 1)».

By: Marsha Miliman

Marsha Miliman — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:09:59 +0000

Can someone please send me a complete list of the cleaning and disinfecting chemicals that the hospital uses for the EI rooms. I want to work for them to be used in hospitals and clinics in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. I am severely chemically sensitive, and suffer from the pervasive use of “air fresheners, harsh cleaning chemicals, and other toxic products in all of these environments. I’m especially interested in proving to administrators that nontoxic products CAN be effective disinfectants.

Thank you.

By: Melva Smith

Melva Smith — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:18:34 +0000

Wonderful!!!! Germany is setting an example for the world!!! We have reverse air flow rooms here that lasted me about two days and then I started having a reaction and got so messed up I couldn’t shower to go home….but I lasted 2 days, and that was good.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:21:42 +0000

Thank you so much for reporting this. Not only should these types of rooms be a goal for chemical sensitivity groups as Larry writes above, but should be a gold standard for ALL hospital rooms. Anyone who is in a hospital – and therefore being challenged by a health condition – should be able to stay in a room that does not bombard their system with toxic fumes from cleaning chemicals, fragrances, and building materials. It’s a no-brainer. Time for the whole world to catch up! Thank you Germany for being a leader in this area.

By: Lawrence A. Plumlee, MD

Lawrence A. Plumlee, MD — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:52:56 +0000

The creation of less toxic rooms in hospitals should be a goal for chemical sensitivity support groups throughout the world. Now we can use the Agaplesion Diakonie Hospital in Hamburg as a guide.
Congratulations to Germany for this accomplishment.