Unidentified Complaints by Chemical Substances : Diagnostic Criteria of the Multiple Chemical Sensitivity(the 38th Annual Congress of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine)

Abstract

This paper reviews specially recommended diagnostic criteria of the patient with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) in Japan. Those members were issued from the government task-team of allergy and related disease in 1997.The following criteria can be used to establish the diagnosis of the patients with MCS. Based on the criteria, medical aspects of MCS patients who visited Kitasato University were introduced and reviewed.