Every October my #MCS would start getting bad. I finally figured out it was something in my heating system. I have steam radiators & this is an old building. For one or two years I turned off all of my heat, except one radiator which I turned down. I just stayed here in mountaineering clothes! Oh yeah, also had to have the windows open because I always felt that I was asphyxiating. I had gotten so used to it that when I had friends over and they would be like “do you mind shutting the windows? I would say Just keep your coat on”. MCS makes you different! At one point January 2010 my lungs hurt so badly that I wanted to sleep in the park. That was before I turned the radiators off.
I had a mold tester come in last year, because toxic mold is always a possible underlying cause for MCS. My place tested ok, but he pointed out that any kind of dust contains mold and suggested that the dust toxins could be the cause of my problem. As you can see, my radiators have lots of inner nooks. Since then I had someone wash it well with a little scrub brush, then I washed it and just had her wash it again, preparing for the winter.
You never know with MCS what is irritating your condition. It took me years to get the covers off of those radiators and figure out that it was dust. I suggest washing thoroughly all heating and air conditioning ducts, vents and apparatus.
I am totally fine now an actually closed my windows and had the heat on last year. I try to remember what it was like when I had MCS, because that sensitivity is an inner air quality meter and is very useful. I chose to live as absolutely toxin free as possible.
Perhaps there is led paint on those radiators?? I need to test that. yikes!
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