Necessity of Counseling Institutions for Sick Building Syndrome Patients

Abstract

As described in Chap. 6, many sick building syndrome patients aggravate their symptoms because there are not enough counselling institutes for sick building syndrome patients. I am studying nursing care for sick building syndrome and chemical sensitivity and giving lectures to architects, regional medical staff, educators, and food suppliers on how to prevent symptom aggravation and avoid getting sick. During these lectures, I recommend avoiding all toxic chemicals in daily life because once a patient get sick house syndrome, they can become very sensitive to many kinds of chemicals that are found in daily supplies such as food, soap, synthetic detergent, and cosmetics. Sick building syndrome can also resulted in multiple chemical sensitivity, which is untreatable. However, if people recognize the risk of toxic chemicals in daily life and try to avoid them, getting sick building syndrome becomes a chance to prevent other illnesses. In this chapter, we will describe findings obtained from our clinical experience.