Exceptional exposure situations deserve special consideration. They occur when usual or expected environmental conditions are not met. Human health is particularly at risk in these often extreme stressful situations, therefore environmental hygiene and environmental medicine take up a position on such topics.
Autism is a developmental disorder which can show very different manifestations. It is assumed that genetic causes contribute to a large extent to the development of autism. Do environmental factors also play a role?
The environmental medicine discipline aims to prevent the occurrence of environmental complaints and diseases in people. The cause of suffering is not always the same. Diagnosis and treatment often require cross-disciplinary cooperation and experience.
The work of the Environmental Medicine Commission is of great importance not only for the Robert Koch Institute and the Federal Environment Agency, but also for other environmental medical authorities and offices with an advisory function, not to mention clinics and practices.
Experts from federal and other authorities, from universities and other research institutes give advice to the Federal Environment Agency in commissions and working groups. Recommended actions are worked out after intensive discussion.
Otherwise the Federal Environment Agency provides advice to working groups of federal government and German federal states as well as to the WHO.
„Multiple Chemical Sensitivity“ (MCS) is characterised by general symptoms such as fatigue, exhaustion, respiratory problems, symptoms of the gastrointestinal tract and further malfunctions of various organ systems.
Allergies are the undesired and sometimes violent defensive reactions of the human (or animal) immune system to substances in the environment (allergens).
Scientists have observed a phenomenon for years in which workers mainly in new office buildings feel ill after extended periods of time at the workplace or at the end of the working day. These complaints vanish when these same people spend time elsewhere.
