Never heard of MCAS? No, not many have. But boy, once you know, it explains an awful lot of chronic illness that’s not responding to usual interventions!
here’s the A-Z factsheet on MCAS for you. I will release the full, much more extended version, in a bit when I have just finished a few more sections. People keep asking me for it so I’ve done a page in the A-Z for you for now.
I’ve covered:
What is MCAS?
Symptoms of MCAS
Getting A MCAS Diagnosis and
How To Treat MCAS
Here are the first few paragraphs to start you off.
What is MCAS?
In short, it is a multi-system inflammatory disorder. In other words, you get inflammation anywhere and everywhere, several systems are involved (eg. gut, skin, head) and it is never the same two days running! You are essentially over-reacting to stuff and it causes inflammation.
Also called Mast Cell Activation Disorder (MCAD) and often confused with mastocytosis, which is entirely different and pretty rare, MCAS is where the mast cells in your body are over-activated for some reason. It could be that you had a genetic weakness in this part of the immune system and it has been triggered by something, such as a trauma, infection, a pollutant etc.
If you are sensitive to smells, chemicals, foods, find temperature changes, stress or exercise make you worse, or you have any kind of chronic illness and normal interventions are not working, consider MCAS. It is MUCH more prevalent than first thought.
Continue reading my free factsheet on MCAS here. I truly hope it helps. We need more MCAS professionals and I’m working hard to get skilled up for you (and me!).