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MeSH Heading: Environmental Illness
Tree Number(s): C20.543.312; C21.223
Unique ID: D018876
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018876
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; coordinate with specific disease or source of illness; not for diseases caused by environmental pollution: index under specific disease and ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION or specific environmental pollutant
Scope Note: A polysymptomatic condition believed by clinical ecologists to result from immune dysregulation induced by common foods, allergens, and chemicals, resulting in various physical and mental disorders. The medical community has remained largely skeptical of the existence of this disease, given the plethora of symptoms attributed to environmental illness, the lack of reproducible laboratory abnormalities, and the use of unproven therapies to treat the condition. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
Entry Version: ENVIR ILLNESS
Entry Term(s): Environmental Hypersensitivities; Environmental Hypersensitivity; Environmental Illnesses; Hypersensitivities, Environmental; Hypersensitivity, Environmental; Illness, Environmental; Illnesses, Environmental
Public MeSH Note: 96
History Note: 96
Date Established: 1996/01/01
Date of Entry: 1995/05/19
Revision Date: 2019/05/24

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Immune System Diseases [C20]
- Hypersensitivity [C20.543]

Disorders of Environmental Origin [C21]
- Environmental Illness [C21.223]
  - Multiple Chemical Sensitivity [C21.223.500]
  - Sick Building Syndrome [C21.223.750]
- Preconception Injuries [C21.676]

Environmental Illness Preferred

Concept UI: M0028231
Scope Note: A polysymptomatic condition believed by clinical ecologists to result from immune dysregulation induced by common foods, allergens, and chemicals, resulting in various physical and mental disorders. The medical community has remained largely skeptical of the existence of this disease, given the plethora of symptoms attributed to environmental illness, the lack of reproducible laboratory abnormalities, and the use of unproven therapies to treat the condition. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
Terms: Environmental Illness Preferred Term
Term UI T056263
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Environmental Hypersensitivities
Term UI T056256
Date03/24/1995
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Environmental Hypersensitivity
Term UI T056258
Date07/15/1994
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Environmental Illnesses
Term UI T056260
Date03/24/1995
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Hypersensitivities, Environmental
Term UI T056257
Date03/24/1995
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Hypersensitivity, Environmental
Term UI T056259
Date07/15/1994
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Illness, Environmental
Term UI T056261
Date03/24/1995
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996); Illnesses, Environmental
Term UI T056262
Date03/24/1995
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1996)

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