We're Looking for the Clues  

  

These are Solvents the Gulf War Troops 1990-1991 were exposed to No doubt about it!

Why check 2-butoxyethanol?

 

  ... cause of harm to Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup workers?

 

and to Gulf War Vets, too? 

 

  Why so?

  How would I know if chemicals have affected me at all?  chart-vets  Chart-others

  Is there one chemical, that with too much exposure, can do all of this?

  • Chronic Fatigue from red cell blood damage  *
  • Signs and symptoms involving skin (including skin rashes and unusual hair loss)
  • Headache *  *
  • Muscle pain

  • Neurological signs or symptoms  *  *

  • (Nervous system disorders which could manifest themselves in numbness in one's arm, for instance)

  • Neuropsychological signs or symptoms (including memory loss)
  • Signs or symptoms involving upper or lower respiratory system
  • Sleep disturbances
  • Gastrointestinal signs or symptoms (including recurrent diarrhea and constipation)
  • Cardiovascular signs or symptoms
  • Weakened immune system
  • Endocrine disruption (glands don't work right - pancreas - reproductive)
  • Bones don't heal; teeth rot
  • Menstrual disorders
  • Sterility
  • Children born with birth defects

... Signs of a Land Mine in Our Camp

For something that is this harmful, who could be affected by it?

  • Those who clean with many ordinary household cleaning products   *   *   *

  • Those who spray paint cars/airplanes

  • Those in the plastics business

  • Those in the dry cleaning business

  • Those who worked on the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup * (chemicals were worse than the oil) *

  • Those in the military who clean guns, artillery or transport chemical cleaners - especially since 1989 *

Some research * and * and * and * and  *

"ACUTE EFFECTS:   HUMAN EXPOSURE ABOVE 200 PPM CAN BE EXPECTED TO CAUSE NARCOSIS, DAMAGE TO THE KIDNEY AND LIVER AND PRESENT AN ABNORMAL BLOOD PICTURE SHOWING ERYTHROPENIA, RETICULOCYTOSIS, GRANULOCYTOSIS, LEUKOCYTOSIS AND WOULD BE LIKELY TO CAUSE FRAGILITY OF ERYTHROCYTES AND HEMATURIA."

TARGET ORGANS   these shared by someone in England

OECD SIDS - 150 pages pdf  - shared by someone in Germany

 What is the MSDS?  

More info?

Who Wants to Be Involved?

If you're not interested, OK, 

but please, no 'BLANK' Looks of "I'm not Interested"

"You're Making this Up," etc

   Please Go No Further

We're looking for the Clues of an assortment of Health Ailments...

that's the 'picture' of 2-butoxyethanol poisoning

  

C6H14O2/CH3(CH2)2CH2OCH2CH2OH 

It is a harmful chemical   *

Eyes Burning?

Some have had blood in urine within half a day! Blood damage is IMMEDIATE

then tired... exhausted always?  Look further  

We're trying to find the 'blood damage'  Why Fatigue?

  • Chills  8
  • Fatigue
  • Pale color
  • Shortness of breath
  • Rapid heart rate  *   *
  • Yellow skin color (jaundice)
  • Dark urine (indicative of blood in urine - never dismiss this! Stop exposure immediately!)
  • Red blood cells that are small-sized, fragility of membranes, etc
  • Abnormal Peripheral Blood test/s
  • Red Blood Cells 'stick' together - AUTOAGGLUTINATION *
  • Enlarged spleen   *
  • COOMB's Test?  Skip it
  • VERY HIGH WHITE BLOOD CELL COUNTS *  *

These are symptoms of hemolytic anemia - what this chemical is said to cause.

(AUTOIMMUNE?)

Loose your temper easily? Central Nervous System * damage 

(partial list of clues for this)

  • Short term memory loss

  • Difficulty concentrating

  • Personality changes to 'grumpy' - Extreme Irritability

  • Difficulty sleeping at night - Sleep apnea?  Narcolepsy in the extreme?

  • All-the-time Depression

  • Suicidal Tendencies

  • Mimics true psychiatric disorder - Paranoia

May affect multiple other body systems & organs

 

Hormones out of range - High or Low - Especially the Pituitary

 

Horrible Headaches - Maybe pituitary headaches - something related to hormones

                     

                      Jeff's ended after puberty

                      Barb's ended when she entered menopause *
 

Keep your guard up - Keep a continual EYE on your Kidney and Liver Function

This Chemical Targets them!

And for your real eyes, have the ophthalmologist check for holes in the retina

Now these headaches!  They are really something, aren't they?  * 

Are they at the back of the head & down the neck?  Could this actually be symptomatic of harm to the pituitary gland, and therefore endocrine disruption?  * 

(we'll give you a list of clues for these) 

These chemical(s) tested by EPA as pesticides * & were tested for Endocrine Disruption *

CAS

 Chemical Name
112-34-5 Diethylene glycol monobutyl ether
111-76-2    Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether

 

What about elevated blood sugar?   

Is it possible to become diabetic purely from head injury?  (yes, type I diabetes, per one person's experience;  pituitary or hypothalamus damage?) 

 

... What about elevated blood pressure?  

If a chemical caused high blood pressure can medications safely bring it down? 

 

and THIS ASSORTMENT of ailments

What are your answers to some of these questions?  *  Check List

Another group of workers 'ran into this chemical' in 1989 & since then more and more people have come into contact with strong concentrations of it, too!  ... even moms!

Now, what about the immune system?  *

Some Vets Share    *  *  *

 

Take care of yourself - Be an Educated Consumer - Learn what contains 2-buotyethanol & don't get any more exposure to it.

Scout out ... sources of 2-butoxyethanol in the military today *

 

      Interestingly enough, the federal gov't behind

posts its own warning about this (butoxyethanol):

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/tfacts118.html

 

"Birth defects unknown" *

"The Department of Health and Human Services, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and Environmental Protection Agency have not classified 2-butoxyethanol and 2-butoxyethanol acetate as to their human carcinogenicity. No carcinogenicity studies on 2-butoxyethanol and 2-butoxyethanol acetate are available in people or animals."  (I believe this is untrue)

Sorry to say it, but the USA is behind the times

What did OSHA find out last year?

What does the World Health Organization say?  *

   

And you could study the 'bioremediation' workers of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup -

 Exposed to this chemical in Inipol EAP 22   What happened?

 

Come to think of it, 

the US Coast Guard monitors * & Navy  * that were there, 

are worse off.

 

The chemical industry will say "NO"   -    What do you say?  *

 

  • April, 1993 MSDS of 2-butoxyethanol emphasizes the danger of misting it...   *  Back up copy * 

  • What is the appropriate protective clothing?   *

Books of Interest for Those Wanting to Learn more about the Problems Chemicals have Been to Health & Environment

     Do our troops need help today?   How new recruits can be helped?

May the entire American Medical Association 

look into the effects of 

2-butoxyethanol poisoning

Why we need help  Know any patients exposed?

       

They long for an accurate diagnosis & an effective treatment 

I am Ever Hoping!  

 

The Soldier's Tear

(from Music and Prejudice)

Thomas Haynes Bayly,

1797-1829

George Alexander Lee, 

1802-1852

A. Clifton  Auld Lang Syne

Do this questionnaire  -  Ask your doctor to check some extra things - Share with your doctor  added 9-28-05

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