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Dealing with Symptoms Instead of Preventing Exposures

Bruce Small did a lot of work on children’s issues, about homes and schools and attitudes. He and family members were getting sick, living in Toronto. ( Toronto Star Photograph Archive, Courtesy of Toronto Public Library)

“Like many others, by my 28th year I had become a battered collection of small but annoying symptoms,” he tells in his memoirs.

Small co-wrote a report on Pollution and Education for the Toronto Board of Education. The bibliography contains references dating back a century.

Parents pressed to have their children protected during the school day. Some school boards were accommodating students by providing special classrooms.
The Waterloo Board produced a specification for materials, how to build or modify existing classrooms to accommodate.
Health officials now invisiblize the role played by Open Air Schools for asthmatics and other “delicate children.”

Consumer rep Dr. Virginnia Salares built a safe home, an organic garden, and worked hard for kids in schools.

Dealing with Symptoms Instead of Preventing Exposures

Some authorities, including many school boards, believe that it is cheaper to deny or ignore sensitivities, to deal with the symptoms instead of preventing reactions.

  • horrific child abuse, instead of accommodation, sometimes receiving the sensitivities equivalent to ‘conversion therapy’.
  • developmental problems leading to juvenile delinquency, psycho-social problems in adulthood, including self-abuse.
  • suicides of persons with improperly diagnosed central nervous system sequelae.