FieldWorks Homes launches its SafeHaven™ line of products and services to address the suffering of IEI/CMS Warriors.
The acquisition of a place to live is among the most stressful decision processes that we humans face. When personal life experience has taught us that there is a near-certainty that any selected space will contain something in its construction that will cause us extreme misery, then the process becomes traumatic. But this is exactly the circumstance of many people who struggle with Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance, or Multiple Chemical Sensitivities.
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), also known Idiopathic Environmental Intolerance (IEI), is a sometimes excruciatingly debilitating ailment that is activated by exposure to a wide range of irritants in the environment that are innocuous to most of the population. Symptoms include headache, dizziness, nausea, cognitive impairment, rash, aching and weakness in the joints, heart palpitations, irritation of mucous membranes, breathing difficulties, and asthma attacks. The condition can range from mild to severely debilitating, and environmental conditions that can stimulate the adverse response include allergens; volatile organic compounds (VOCs); air fresheners, scents and fragrances; cleaning supplies; electromagnetic fields; and impurities in the drinking water.
Exposure to even small quantities of an individual’s triggers can induce indicators that can interfere with enjoyment of life and even impede productive work. A report by the National Institute of Health (Steinemann, 2018) estimated that 12.8% of the US population reported medically diagnosed MCS, and 25.9% self-reported chemical sensitivity—and that this represents an increase of 300% and 200%, respectively, over estimates from ten years previous. These figures extrapolate to a US population of diagnosed MCS-sufferers of 43 million people, and a self-reporting US population of 88 million people; these numbers are likely to grow.
SafeHaven SleepPod™ is a special sleeping chamber that has been constructed explicitly to provide a safe place where triggers cannot assault the sleeper’s physiology. SafeHaven Refuge™ is a small home or Tiny House on Wheels (THoW) that is in the development stage. SafeHaven LifeLab™ is our mobile laboratory where clients can test for themselves their own tolerance of various materials and utility systems before they are incorporated into a home for purchase.