A worker shares that his heart rate races very fast... then nothing & he collapses.

He's been in the hospital with extensive blood work - but can't find what must be hemolytic anemia.  

 

 

Of course doctors are not looking for it.  

Is it the 'hide-out' ailment 

when caused from 2-butoxyethanol?

 

Don't expect that he has much longer to live.  The blood work doesn't look out of line - RBCs are borderline normal but dropped to 4.32 this summer: one of the numbers on the liver is a little down; he can't eat & has lost 30+ lbs recently.  He spilled a chemical very strong with 2-butoxyethanol on himself during the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup.

His comments earlier this year  (sorry about the language - he has lived a hard life & raised  himself from the age of 13 -so he swears every other word)   *

 
Is it possible to have both non-immune and immune hemolytic anemia at the same time?
 
Hemolytic anemia is a condition of an inadequate number of circulating red blood cells (anemia), caused by premature destruction of red blood cells.  

One type *** is Non-immune hemolytic anemia caused by chemical or physical agents

Immune hemolytic anemia is a disorder characterized by anemia due to premature destruction of red blood cells by the immune system

Symptoms  Checklist
  • Chills
  • Fatigue
  • Pale color
  • Shortness of breath
  • Rapid heart rate
  • Yellow skin color (jaundice)
  • Dark urine
  • Enlarged spleen

Suggestions for doctors to consider

Other Workers share -

10-12-03

 

One person knows he has come down with anemia since that time...now has a low red blood cell count... doctors couldn't figure out why:  not dietary, not hereditary, colonoscopy indicated no internal bleeding, bone marrow OK, lymph nodes swollen throughout body, but lymph node biopsy was OK. So back to square one:  his doctor doesn't know why he has a low red blood cell anemia.

And he's wondering... literature he recently obtained on Inipol EAP 22 (which was used during the EXXON Valdez Oil Spill clean up starting Aug, 1989) indicates blood damage possible, being hemolytic anemia.  How to test for?  Any effective treatment?  

During that time, the company drew this man's blood - a second time - with very thick-tubed needles so as to not destroy whatever it was they were looking for?  Since it was a new product being tested, would that mean anything?  What were they looking for? Did they find the red blood cells were 'ragged' and 'beat up?' 

He started feeling this tiredness a few months after the summer of '89 and worked again in the 1990 summer.  

If there were a problem wouldn't the company know about it?  Surely they wouldn't let him work another summer with the same Inipol EAP 22 -which he did- if their testing indicated health problems?

Since then there has been the depression, difficulty concentrating ... evidence of central nervous system damage, skin damage, etc  'The package' of 2-butoxyethanol poisoning.

Seek proper medical care, if you have these symptoms  *

 ... be sure to mention any chemicals that could have had an effect. *

If you were a union, NORCON worker of VECO... Corexit had 3 times the 2-butoxyethanol  * & maybe ethylene oxide *

 

How do the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup workers Feel? *

 

With 2-butoxyethanol blood damage  happens first.  

Per definition of hymolytic anemia:  

"In what's known as

 autoimmune hemolytic anemia

 the immune system mistakes red blood cells for foreign invaders and begins destroying them."

 Can be caused by chemicals - toxins,

so, Acquired autoimmune hemolytic anemia?

But check the Retic ratio & look at red blood cells to find it (?)

  & Which of these symptoms?
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