Module 5: Chemical Sensitivity

9.45: Detoxification mechanisms

• Storage sites and mobilisation of xenobiotic chemicals.
• Load.
• Biochemical mechanisms involved in detoxification and excretion.
• Nutritional influences.

10.30: Chemical sensitivity - recognition and epidemiology

• How common is chemical sensitivity?
• Epidemiology and social effects.

11.15: Coffee

11.30: Tests and their significance in patients with possible chemical sensitivities

• Recognition of the problem.
• In vitro and in vivo tests for individual sensitivities, detoxification competence, and nutritional deficiencies.

12.15: Panel discussion

1.00: Lunch

2.15: Neonates and organophosphates

• Epidemiology and pathophysiology of xenobiotic toxicity in the neonate.
• Immediate, short term and long term effects.

3.00: General management of patients with chemical sensitivities

• Identification of sensitivities.
• Avoidance strategies.
• Neutralisation.
• Nutritional support.
• Poor nutrition in chemical sensitivities, predisposing and/or prolonging?

3.40: Chemical sensitivities and EPD

• EPD is starting to be used with chemical sensitivities, early experience.

3.45 Tea

4.00: Would detoxification methods help?

• The possible role of saunas and other detoxification methods in management of chemical sensitivity and in reducing the load of xenobiotics in allergic patients generally.

4.45 Panel discussion