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We are born naked, they give us cologne, perfumed nappies, clothes washed

creams with all kinds of possible aromas, and they drive us in plastic stro

breathe nice polluted air.

We grow up and they make us believe that we can achieve anything we wan

write our future, that happiness is based in buy everything and the state is

and watch over us, although I had my doubts.

One day, you wake up and nothing has sense. You switch on the table lamp

get burnt; you open the window and perceive new smells that dont let you

turn on the radio and the music booms in your head so much that you fear

And you dont have a hangover. Its worse. Its been called Multiple Chem

(MCS) and has come to stay.

Your body has said enough, has been broken and starts rejecting everythin

you was essential for your happiness. Your life has taken an unexpected tu

changes, your future vanishes, you dont have physical nor mental energ

forces you to live your life behind a mask and have been in isolation from the

The Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is not strange, nor a minority. It affects to

population. Its a chronic disease, not psychological, which causes symptoms

to a minimal exposure to usual and unnecessary chemical products lifresheners, perfumes, etc. We live locked in our houses but its not necessar

have a crisis. Your neighbours cloths airing outside suffocate you, make you

you loose consciousness, thanks to the wonderful toxic softeners.

The World Health Organization (WHO) dont recognize MCS as a disease

having in their possession innumerable studies that prove its existence and

Parliament includes it inside the growing number of diseases related to the

factors. The reason is the pressure that the chemical and pharmaceutical i

for not recognize it, because MCS is caused by the chemical products t

consume. The economical interests in front of our health. In countries whic

is recognized, like Germany, medical assistance and financial aids towards i

and in some other countries it is being considered at the moment.

And whats the situation in Spain? We dont exist to our paternal governm

the drama of suffering MCS, they abandon us, without medical assistance an

right to a disability benefit when we cant work. They leave us naked and un

second class citizens, because were the evidence that the current model

failed, although nobody wants to see it or to take measures to sort it out.Text: Eva Caball.

Photos: David Palma

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They too steal any hopes we

feeling better. Pharmacists fin

only when they can obtain a

result of this , minority dise

research, not even MCS, whic

5% of the population. The

pharmaceutical industry know

sick because were intoxicate

is not any medicine that w

rich. The key is to change the

society, decreasing the big

chemical products to which

each day. Obviously, this ca

and they try to deny that

because their economical inte

at stake.

The chemical industry, sup

government, doesnt have

subjugate the population to t

exposure to chemical subst

effects are often unknow

develop MCS, we must

perfumes, softeners, plastic

naked again. We born again,life that we dont choose. We

researches that have been do

has genetic components, so

could develop it, although th

you to accumulate toxics un

cancer or any other disea

environmental factors.

Those who suffer MCS want

be recognized; we want to h

rights as the other chronically

want society to know the

under; we want the governm

its citizens and prevent them

sick at no cost for them.

We dont want anybody

again as a result of suffering

Delirio Desnudo, 2009.