Abstract
Here we present a case of a lady, called Mrs. P., a shop assistant of a wholesale market for agricultural device and chemicals, who had been exposed to many different toxic chemicals during her professional work that caused severe symptoms of a disease like Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) combined with a disease that corresponded to a Toxic
Encephalopathy and a Chronic Fatigue at the same time. This case had been examined by a detailed expert opinion for getting a compensation by the health insurance. But this did not succeed, as in Germany illnesses of environmental origin were not regarded as scientifically proved. The patient suffers up to now under continuing severe complaints without help or therapy by medical doctors and the health insurance.
The case presented here appears to be an example for the publication of Hill and Huber (2025)1 that describes connections of the pathologic mechanisms between MCS and neurodegenerative diseases. The symptoms of the affected lady are consequences of mechanisms that appear during diseases such as MCS, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease and Toxic Encehalopathy because of neurotoxic effects of the chemicals involved here. The multiple exposure to different highly toxic chemicals had been documented by the list of products that are sold by the wholesale market for agriculture, that was the workplace of the concerned lady in Germany.
The purpose of this publication is to strengthen our demand to the responsible institutions of health care and environmental policy in Germany to take action to verify precaution and to avoid exposures to toxic chemicals such as pesticides and other toxic organic chemicals at work places and in agricultural activities not only in Germany.
The information about the disease status of the concerned lady called “Mrs. P.” has been collected from medical certificates and receipts, by a questionnaire and by personal reports of the patient. This investigation leads to the conclusion that Mrs. P. suffers from a severe disease since the beginning of her work at the wholesale market in the year 2000 up to her incapacity to work as consequence of her disease 12 Years later. The disease caused an inability to manage every day-´tasks at work and even at home, with severe restrictions of her common life quality.