Author Questions about symptoms of Gulf War
Bobby
Junior Member		 January 21, 2004 
Bumps  ?
Mother Margaret
e-mail		  January 22, 2004 
I have heard of lumps - would that be the same thing?

Have you checked with your doctor?

What job did you do?

The concern with this chemical that some gulf war vets were exposed to - ethylene glycol ether, or 2-butoxyethanol, is that many people at home and also military from other time periods were affected by it too

Please look thru the info;

When you get a blood test for something next, as the doctor to find the absolute cell count www.valdezlink.com/pages/absolute_cell_count.htm
www.valdezlink.com/check_blood.htm (it is a simple way to see if all is OK with the lymph system per one report)

Of course we are not doctors; but it helps to learn what one can

Here is info on what some diagnosis have been for gulf war vets www.valdezlink.com/gwv/complete.htm

As a auto mechanic there are many products you use that contain this chemical, ethylene glycol or 2-butoxyethanol. Start looking at the Material Safety Data Sheets on products you use & wear goggles & gloves if this chemical is there.

PS Here is a list to check symptoms and a rough check list in general

Please keep us Posted 

One last comment, if it is caused from ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (also known as 2-butoxyethanol), you will also have a lot of other odd, seemingly unrelated symptoms.  If so, this chemical should most definitely be looked into. 

Even so, it is difficult to get doctors to take you seriously.  True medical study of this is not something the chemical companies want - they earn a lot of money on the use of such a chemical in hundreds of products over the last 50 years ... since the 1930's actually.  There are enough people harmed by it, that they can do studies on people groups instead of rats/mice.

To get your doctor to even have an interest in finding the real source of medical problems which arise from it, please fax this to him/her in advance of an appt.  (Just copy this and paste onto a Word Doc with a cover page from you.  ATTN:  nurse of the doctor)

OR, if you can have a doctor in your state whom you HAVE seen, to order the blood work from the nearest clinic or hospital where you live, that will answer the question, if they check these things in your blood and have a lab tech comment on the red blood cells.

 

Doctors don't take you seriously

because they are believing

that

2-butoxyethanol

doesn't harm anyone.

 

How very sad!

 

It is also known by a more common name,

ethylene glycol monobutyl ether

 

By the way,

I wonder if it is true

that in the last 80 years male sperm count in the USA has been dropping

... hmm....

This chemical damages the testes

 

One so exposed laments his inability to father children

 - more than any other health issue he has to deal with