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[Syndromes in environmental medicine: variants of somatoform disorders].
Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie 2001 April
Concerning the syndromes in environmental medicine, like Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS), Idiopathic Environmental Intolerances (IEI), Sick Building Syndrome (SBS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Candida Syndrome (CS), and Burnout Syndrome (BS), scientific knowledge in etiology, pathology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, therapy, prevention and prognosis is still lacking until now. A critical comparison shows that it is still impossible to find a scientifically satisfying delimitation. Syndromes in environmental medicine show clinical similarities to somatoform disorders. Furthermore, there are the following possible explanations for the existence of these syndromes: Firstly, they may be a complex interaction of environmental impacts, individual predispositions, psychological influences, as well as processes of mental perception and interpretation. Secondly, they may be an effect of distress influenced by culture and social structures and/or thirdly, they may be an latrogenic determination. A more comprehensive characterisation which better considers the complex clinical manifestations is overdue. Although there are neither scientifically validated procedures for diagnosis or therapy nor prophylactic measures, a hardly comprehensible number of partly unvalidated methods is in practical use. Until the syndromes are not finally defined the terms for the syndromes should not be applied to a certain disease. Despite all uncertainities in the evaluation of syndromes in environmental medicine, physicians have the duty to take the affected persons' problems seriously.
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