We now have organized our Links Page into a searchable database. We hope this will make it easier to locate the information you are looking for.
What Are “Mailing Lists”?
Mailing lists are automated e-mail services that forward a single message to everyone who has subscribed to that list. Some lists are moderated in that the all messages are screened by a moderator for appropriateness. Others are completely open allowing all subscribers to submit or post messages that are forwarded to the entire mailing list.
These lists can provided support and valuable information on very specific topics. However, one must be cautious when viewing postings from unmoderated groups. Some groups also have very high volume. You could receive 10 to 100 messages per day. Some lists allow you to subscribe to a digest format which combines multiple postings into a single e-mail message. With these caveats in mind, the following lists may be of interest to those seeking information on Environmental Illness.
Healthvisions On-line MCS Support Group A friendly, supportive online discussion group about mcs
and allied illnesses based on mutual respect and the premise we can get well. Anyone who wants to subscribe can do so easily by merely addressing an email to mcs-healthvisions-subscribe@egroups.com. Nothing needs to be written on the subject line or body of the message. Acknowledgement will be returned and instructions for posting, etc. To get off the list, all a person has to do it look at any message and she or he will find on the bottom instructions for unsubscribing.
On-line MCS support group for Canadians My name is Brenda and suffer with severe multiple chemical sensitivity {MCS} and allergies. I have started this group because of my own frustration at not being able to access Canadian sources. I am ashamed to say Canada falls far behind the US in the treatment and care of MCS people. According to the Enviromental Illness Society of Canada, in 1999 the US had 1200 EI drs, Canada 25….Yes only 25. Trying to find products to aid in the coping and healing of our illness that can be purchased in Canada such as maple syrup, without having to pay a huge US exchange rate, duty, and enormous shipping costs have been next to impossible. So, I am asking Canadians ill with MCS-EI to share with others if they know of sources for good organic food that ships,cosmetics and personal products, organic clothing, sheets, filtration systems…anything you can think of that may lesson the costs for other fellow Canadian MCS sufferers. If you have a MCS aware dentist or GP. that you feel really has a good understanding of this illness, maybe you may be able to help someone in your province connect with them. Please join me at MCS-CanadianSources
Contact: Brenda Barclay Smith
Website: http://www.egroups.com/group/MCS-CanadianSources
Western ExposurePlus WesternExposuresPlus is a discussion list for adults who are experiencing chronic illness – either their own or someone’s they are close to- who want to actively engage in intelligent, informed POSSIBILITY THINKING with other adults in similar circumstances.
Living with chronic illness is a major challenge often sparking very real depression that needs a medical solution. This list is NOT medically based. Nor do we condone denial. Pollyanna never suffered CFIDS, FM, MCS, MS….
But we do. This list encourages the exploration of what the mind-body connection and beyond might hold for us.
(If you are not a OneList member, you will need to sign-up).
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/WesternExposuresPlus
MCS-Chemical Injury MCS-CI-exile is an unmoderated discussion forum for MCS (multiple chemical sensitivity) , EI (environmental illness), CI (chemically injured).
Information is exchanged by those wanting to move forward, and is for the benefit of sufferers hoping to acquire help in learning to understand, cope and adjust to MCS, EI, CI as they relate to their own individual and personal health concerns, as well as the much broader impacts on reciprocal relationships including, but not limited to, visalus shakes, familial, social, global, medical/ scientific research/ health care, economic, workplace, educational, political, environmental, advocacy, legal, accommodation/ access, lifestyle and governmental realms.
Send a blank message to subscribe:
MCS-CI-exile-subscribe@egroups.com
Or go to:
http://www.onelist.com/group/MCS-CI-exile/
Immune Immune is for people (and their SO’s, family, friends, and medical care workers) with various immune-system related ailments such as: chronic fatigue syndrome, candida, lupus, fibromyalgia, Epstein-Barr, multiple allergies, environmental illness, chemical sensitivity, etc., and the symptoms that result from any of the above, including learning disabilities, migraines, asthma, hypoglycemia, etc. Go to for subscription instructions:
http://www.best.com/~immune/subscribe.html
MCS-IMMUNE-NEURO MCS-IMMUNE-NEURO is a discussion group for people with MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities)/Chemical Injury, Desert Storm illness, Agent Orange exposures, silicone injuries, porphyria and other autoimmune diseases and nervous system disorders that may be the result of or exacerbated by chemical injury/exposures.
GOALS:
To provide an exchange of information (medical and scientific studies);
To provide a friendly forum for discussions regarding symptoms, medical tests/treatments and lifestyle changes;
To offer a caring and supportive *stress free* environment in order that health may be regained and lives may be changed for the better;
To show there is hope for recovery. There is not (as of yet) a cure but there IS life beyond chronic illness and especially so with MCS/Chemical Injury.
Join the MCS-IMMUNE-NEURO list by emailing to:
listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
and in the BODY write:
subscribe mcs-immune-neuro
The list offers a digest version and keyword searchable archives which can accessed via email and through a website interface.
Owner/Moderator: Ginny Kloth
bijou@blrg.tds.net
Allergy The Allergy mailing list discusses all types of human allergies – how allergies influence our health and lifestyles, treatments for
allergies from the consumer perspective and experience, self-help prevention of allergy symptoms, allergy self-care, and support
systems. Families and friends of the allergic are also welcome!
Related topics also include hives, sinusitis, asthma, itchiness, rashes, puffiness, nasal and respiratory difficulties, etc. These topics
are fair game, especially as they relate to people dealing with allergies in their everyday lives.
For subscription Information go to:
http://www.Immune.Com/allergy/
EPD List For more information on the Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization mailing list go to
http://dmapub.dma.org/~rohrers/allergy/epd_faq.htm#2.1
CHEMICAL-ILLNET list Chemical-Illnet is an Internet community where the chemically ill, their
friends, family and loved ones can come to gather information, support, and
learn how they can become pro-actively involved in advocating for
accommodation and acceptance of this illness. Members include activists,
medical professionals, scientists, and the general public. The vast majority
of our members are chemically ill or injured and deal with varying degrees of
disability on a daily basis.
To subscribe – CHEMICAL-ILLNET list
Additional Information
If you would like further information or a reading video/audio list about Environmental Illness contact the Society and ask for
a Practical Allergy Relief Foundation catalogue;
the Society’s reading list or
the Environmental Health Foundation catalogue of American products (the latter costs $4 & $1 postage).
If you wish to watch a video about an adult who develops EI, rent the movie Safe, from your favourite video store.
Ontarians watch out for No Scents is Good Sense, a Ryerson Polytechnical University production, on TV Ontario this.
If you are interested in having your class join our newly formed: Future Is Now (FIN) group consider taking a Junior Friend of the EISC membership as well.
We have a 30 day teaching module, The Environment-Health Connection: An Information and Activity Resource for Educators, developed by a teacher for K-OAC level students and will be available November 1997 @$15 (tax & postage included)
The Society developed a Be An Environmental Advocate program is outlined in The Environment-Health Connection and provides opportunities for students to undertake projects which involve effecting changes in classes, schools, homes and/or communities. It also hails the second permanent competition of the Environmental Illness Society of Canada. Students create class or school projects and establish the desired outcomes. They implement the plan and evaluate the project’s achievements.
The projects will be described by written (maximum 4 pages) and should be accompanied by a visual report. Submissions must be postmarked by December 31 of each year. Projects will be evaluated by a panel of judges and there will be an award for the winning national project, to be announced on Earth Day the following April.