Household Products and Building Materials are Critical Candidates for Residents’ CS and SBS

People spend most of their indoor. For this reason vulnerability to risk factors in indoors environments constitutes threats to health that should be taken seriously. Particularly vulnerable are, for example, children, women and persons who have acquired allergies or functional somatic syndromes. Since the 1970’s, the prevalence of two building-related syndromes, the (multiple) chemical sensitivity (CS) and the sick building syndrome (SBS), seem to have increased in women populations. Both CS and SBS person’ symptoms are suspected to be caused by air pollutants at concentrations far below those tolerated by most person. Since comparative research on CS and SBS is lacking, two population studies were undertaken to determine: (1) Prevalence of CS and SBS in women residing in ‘sick’ or ordinary buildings; (2) Sensitivity attributions to household products/building materials in CS and SBS; (3) Symptom profiles associated with ‘suck’ or ordinary environments. A main hypothesis was that in ‘sick’ environments, it is natural and reasonable for both CS and SBS persons to have symptoms whereas in ordinary environments with fewer contaminants, fewer building-related symptoms would be expected from chemical exposures, not necessarily identical to subsequently aggravating exposures. Cross-sectional questionnaire data from the same base population were collected from 3424 women (random sample) and from 1622 women and men residing in apartments of 44 ‘sick’- renovations. CS was r

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