Experience with Chemicals of Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup when on FOSS housing barge

I was visiting yesterday with a Valdez woman ...

I had talked with her last year about oil spill cleanup stuff
& she and her husband knew people harmed by the chemicals.

She herself, it turns out,
has lost her gall bladder to its being ulcerated.
Has the exhaustion-tired-all-the-time; is very irritable (CNS)

Serious diabetes started up after that endocrine disruption?

She had a serious life-threatening reaction to the chemicals
that were spilled on the FOSS Barge (a housing barge) for one day end of
1989 work season on EVOS

Hmm - some of these workers, too?

She didn't even get out to the beach to pick up after the men spraying the chemicals.

When she talked about it last year, I thought it was early on in the season
& that it was a reaction to the crude oil.

"My lungs were filling up with fluid; they medivaced me to the Valdez clinic,
but kept me about 2 hours on the medical barge first... to stabilize me."
She continued, "for awhile they wouldn't even give me my own medical records."

So I went back to find her some information on Corexit...
(the ethylene oxide in it would cause pulmonary edema - if exposed to a lot
of it)

& in rereading what an MSDS on Corexit said...
it talked about it being done for the dept of defense

I could not believe my 'eyes'

I felt sure Gulf War Syndrome was some type of 2-butoxyethanol poisoning,
but I had NO IDEA it would be the SAME product...
one 3 times worse as actually selected for use on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Corexit 9500 (more toxic) is on the Alyeska Pipeline Terminal today,

poised for use on the people and environment AGAIN

8-1-89 version of Corexit

only gives ethylene oxide as the dangerous ingredient

& no others

Acquired hemolytic anemia

& long term effects - complications from solvent exposure

Must test differently than regular hemolytic anemia?

Did the military use COREXIT - any version - for daily cleaning their gear?

What is used to 'wash down' the decks of aircraft carriers?

This http://www.valdezlink.com/corexit/media-c/Incom001.PDF_1.pdf

was a new product formulated for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup

... but in this pdf disclaimer at the bottom...

it states it was done for the department of defense.

What do they mean?

Corexit had 2-butoxyethanol AND a little ethylene oxide ('de-minimus' carcinogen)

The New Jersey Hazard sheets on both chemicals are very helpful

http://www.state.nj.us/health/eoh/rtkweb/0882.pdf

also

http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/media/icsc0059.pdf

a back up copy for: www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/icsc/dtasht/_icsc00/icsc0059.pdf

8-4-03

www.valdezlink.com/wondering.htm

Corexit 9527

Why are symptoms for Gulf War Syndrome

the same as 2-butoxyethanol poisoning?

Just thought I would share that the symptoms of 'Gulf War Syndrome Vets' are the same symptoms as 2-butoxyethanol poisoning Please have doctors check them for hemolytic anemia But doing extra tests, too ... as the doctors are missing the aquired hemolytic anemia in the population of Inipol EAP 22 Bioremediation workers of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup... and so are millitary doctors for the Gulf War Syndrome vets, in my opinion http://www.valdezlink.com/symptoms_of_gulf_war_illnesses.htm http://www.valdezlink.com/1989photos_print.htm EVOS picture story Maybe these extra things can be checked & a LAB TECH must look at the red blood cells under a micrscope & COMMENT

www.valdezlink.com/men.htm www.valdezlink.com/women.htm

http://www.valdezlink.com/hematologist_help.htm Exxon was LOOKING for hemolytic anemia in 1989 on its target workers... & finding it http://www.valdezlink.com/how_abbrev.htm But unless our doctors are LOOK for it, they are not finding it.... those with all the other symptoms, varied as they are... HAVE to first of all have had the blood damage. The auto workers in our nation & many others should be checked for this chemical poisoning, too www.valdezlink.com/opinion.htm Note the symptoms of the Central Nervous System Damage of our Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup workers www.valdezlink.com/feel_print.htm Note the symptoms of chemical overexposure (poisoning) and especially what 2-butoxyethanol does http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/symptoms_print.htm You tell me if my theory makes sense. I would like to know what was the OK range for red blood cell counts, hemoglobin and hematocrit before 1989 Margaret Diann Hursh, PO Box 233, Valdez, ALASKA 99686 1-888-853-5333 Looking for the EVOS workers www.valdezlink.com/home.htm http://www.valdezlink.com/missing_it.htm

If bone marrow is damaged - don't long term effects set in?

- this must be untrue:

"Damage to red blood cells continues as long as sufficiently high concentrations of 2-butoxyethanol are present. Because 2-butoxyethanol and its breakdown products leave the body within 24 to 48 hours of exposure, damage to red blood cells will cease after that period of time unless there is continuing or repeated exposure at high enough doses."

Maybe this is true for the cumulative exposures... but one day...

won't there be a point of no return?

One exposure too many,

and the long term effects 'kick-in?'

If hemolytic anemia occurs from any source - how can it just go away? I know there are some rat studies that say such,

however, I am not interested in what happens when swallowed because that is not a primary source of exposure.

Breathing fumes, getting vapors in your eyes, getting product on your skin/cuticles - are the primary entry routes of 2-butoxyethanol. Two people from the Exxon Valdez oil spill days reported that an Exxon man drank Corexit to prove that it was safe. He must have known that ingestion was not a form of exposure.

8-4-03 A non posted web page

Please note, ingesting is a minor form of exposure to 2-butoxyethanol

Misting in the worst... or inhaling it & getting it on your skin

Probably would not be safely stored at hot temperatures

How to detect the hemolytic anemia when it is acquired from too much 2-butoxyethanol solvent exposure, whether one time period exposure, or multiple exposures over several years (cumulative effects of exposures)

... when the long term effects have set in

It seems to not have the same 'signals' that it is present as 'non acquired' hemolytic anemia has

Iron must be part of what needs to be tested for www.valdezlink.com/iron.htm Since iron is stored in the red blood cells (50%) and in the liver, spleen & other tissues... & is needed to make red blood cells.

Two women who worked the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup shared recently that their iron counts are 6 and 10; one has developed rheumatoid arthritis from a weakened immune system

The other was told, "Oh, you don't have leukemia, or you would be dead now"

We have a chiropractic doctor who worked with patients during the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup & in 1992 he came down with melanoma eye cancer & had one eye removed; recently his liver cancer had gone undetected with normal testing for liver cancer. They only found it by inserting a camera at the naval area... & then found he was full of cancer in the liver and it had gone to the stomach. And if he is still alive, he would only have days to live.

He could have been exposed second hand, when patients were expelling the chemical thru their respiratory system?

I am asking questions on how to detect the long term effects of the 2-butoxyethanol excessive

(or cumulative excessive) exposures

http://www.valdezlink.com/doctor_helps.htm

http://www.valdezlink.com/open_letter.htm

http://www.valdezlink.com/check_blood.htm

Sincerely,

Margaret

PS Could you tell me what the troops wash their gear with?

I was told it contained 2-butoxyethanol

The military uses many different cleaning/degreasing agents on its equipment. Each is selected for the particular job that is required and any personal protective equipment for people using these agents is likewise selected based on the properties of the agent being used. I am sorry to be so general about this but the military has literally thousands of types of equipment ranging from small arms to aircraft and navy ships with all of their associated components. Virtually all of them get cleaned at some point and the cleaning agent is selected based on the requirement of the job.

What temperature is recommended for storing & use of cleaning compounds?

What kind of exposures could you have to 2-butoxyethanol type chemicals?

http://www.valdezlink.com/what_exposures.htm

What are the symptoms of too much chemicals in one's system?

http://www.valdezlink.com/patient_intake_chart.htm

MSDS 2-butoxyethanol:

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safework/cis/products/icsc/dtasht/_icsc00/icsc0059.pdf

Check blood Men Women

Learn to avoid products with 2-butoxyethanol - especially those which contain large amounts of this chemical Some Auto & Cleaning products have very high levels of 2-butoxyethanol

Corexit has 38% 2-butoxyethanol (UNSAFE!) Inipol EAP 22 had 12%