Eyes burning and hurting


These thoughts I just shared with 'BraveRifles' on another forum. He is a gulf war syndrome' vet who also shared that his red blood cells were smaller sized than they should be. Our First Lady is now in charge of a Health Research group. Maybe she would include the harm of a common cleaning and degreaser product that also causes leukemias.

... 'Brave Rifles' said his eyes were burning and hurting ...

Comments:

... Each person can only take so much chemical load. After that, other things seem to cause allergic reactions ... but may just be your body saying, "No more!"

On the chemical I share on, 2-butoxyethanol, the warnings on products it is in say to rinse each eye under running water for 15 minutes each after too much exposure. Do you think anyone could do that?

A study of this chemical's warnings may be the only clue you will have that it is in products. Or sometimes you see an EPA registration number on the product. Check it out.

You can also get exposure to this chemical second hand. One lady shared with me that she was on a long airplane ride and lost her senses of small and taste. After years all that returned was whether something was sweet or sour ... she couldn't tell that she was eating chocolate, for instance. I've heard of gulf war vets passing 'the syndrome' on to their children that were born before 1990. I've heard of workers of the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup (1989) coming home afterwards and the next year, their parent came down with CFS. (I consider this chemical to be the cause of CFS, CFIDS, 'gulf war syndrome' because it causes all the symptoms all by itself ... and it was the primary chemical of harm to the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup workers and many who encountered the chemical 'second hand' from them. *It is also a chemical the gulf war vets of 1990-1991 were exposed to)

This is a scary chemical. Sounds like the eye membranes and the cuticle areas are the primary route of exposure. It is a significant possibility that you are being exposed to such a chemical when your eyes burn and hurt, you have strong flu-like symptoms, you feel fatigue and your urine turns dark (red blood cells dying off). Many times this is also accompanied by a sharp increase in blood sugar &/or blood pressure ... and the doctor often will just say it is diabetes that caused it all. Not likely. This is an expression of endocrine disruption, or 'diabetes' is secondary to 2-butoxyethanol poisoning.

Once its harm has set in you will notice there being blood in your urine. AND you will have red blood cells that are immature vs the right ratio of mature to immature. At first the reticulocyte count (indicates the rate at which new red blood cells are being formed) will be higher than normal; however, later you will show that you are not making enough red blood cells. This is the fatigue from day 1.

The biggest mystery of 2-butoxyethanol poisoning is that its harm DOES NOT SHOW UP in blood counts, Hemoglobin, hematocrit. So, ask for comments on the size and shape and age of your red blood cells. And see if there is fragility of the red blood cells (what is going on with the cell membrane, for instance) Can the lab do such? In the regular blood work all that showed up for this one man 15 years later was a red blood cell count that was only slightly under normal: 4.45 when the right range was supposed to be 4.5-6 per the lab that did the test.

Maybe too many immature red blood cells are fooling these tests, I don't know. It is certainly a mystery!

The research also says these things may be affected by 2-butoxyethanol (ethylene glycol monobutyl ether):
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Causes Central Nervous System (CNS) DEPRESSION *

and

Difficulty concentrating

Short term memory loss

Very irritable 'fly off the handle all the time over nothing'

Difficulty sleeping

Suicidal Tendencies

along with ...

Loss of taste
Headaches and Stupor.

Causes skin irritation.
Causes severe eye irritation - damage to tissue possible
Irritating to mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract


2-butoxyethanol

CHRONIC EFFECTS - TARGET ORGANS


SENSE ORGANS AND SPECIAL SENSES (OTHER OLFACTION EFFECTS)
SENSE ORGANS AND SPECIAL SENSES (OTHER EYE EFFECTS)
BEHAVIORAL (GENERAL ANESTHETIC)
BEHAVIORAL (ALTERED SLEEP TIME)
BEHAVIORAL (SOMNOLENCE)
BEHAVIORAL (EXCITEMENT)
BEHAVIORAL (ATAXIA)
BEHAVIORAL (COMA)
BEHAVIORAL (ANALGESIA) LUNGS, THORAX OR RESPIRATION (DYSPNAE)
LUNGS, THORAX OR RESPIRATION (OTHER CHANGES)
GASTROINTESTINAL (NAUSEA OR VOMITING)
GASTROINTESTINAL (OTHER CHANGES)
LIVER (TUMORS)
KIDNEY, URETER, BLADDER (HEMATURIA)
KIDNEY, URETER, BLADDER (OTHER CHANGES)

ENDOCRINE (TUMORS)
SKIN AND APPENDAGES (HAIR)
MATERNAL EFFECTS (UTERUS, CERVIX, VAGINA)
MATERNAL EFFECTS (OTHER EFFECTS ON FEMALE)
EFFECTS ON FERTILITY (PRE-IMPLANTATION MORTALITY)
EFFECTS ON FERTILITY (POST-IMPLANTATION MORTALITY)
EFFECTS ON FERTILITY (LITTER SIZE)
SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITIES (MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM)
SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENTAL ABNORMALITIES (CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM)
NUTRITIONAL AND GROSS METABOLIC (WEIGHT LOSS OR DECREASED WEIGHT GAIN)
NUTRITIONAL AND GROSS METABOLIC (CHANGES IN: METABOLIC ACIDOSIS)
TUMORIGENIC (CARCINOGENIC BY RTECS CRITERIA)
TUMORIGENIC (EQUIVOCAL TUMORIGENIC AGENT BY RTECS CRITERIA)
So you see, it's no wonder that 2-butoxyethanol doesn't get blamed for much of anything. I suggest that medical doctors and the epidemiologists and the CDC check various cancers, diabetes, blood pressure and metabolic problems for whether or not the patient has blood in urine and too many immature red blood cells (autoimmune hemolytic anemia).

Then you might start recognizing how much illness 2-butoxyethanol is the root cause of harm for.

Let's check this out.

Could you post this Public Service Announcement?

... and if you are someone with CFS, CFIDS, 'gulf war syndrome' vet or are an Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup worker ... could you share your results and do this brief survey (overview of symptoms)?

So, I have an idea of what should be done to get the statistics of harm of this chemical, but I don't know how to go about it.

There is The George and Barbara Bush Endowment for Innovative Cancer Research *

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Eyes burning and hurting
good one....

mike
gn
help? and ferritin levels? need protein for joints not to hurt!
I'm in the dark here - please help me out!

I keep learning more and hope to do a preliminary health survey of chronic fatigue groups. If anyone is interested, please let me know.

Was learning that low ferritin may also contribute to the overall picture, in that iron and protein are needed to make red blood cells, and without enough protein, joints will hurt, etc. Everything in the body needs protein except bile and urine! valdezlink.com/hb/ferritin.htm

9-25-04

Mystery sickness -for today's soldier

Asks one man, why are blood tests showing everything borderline 'OK?'

Check these  &  Some of these basics  6-22-05

A short list of what to look for - 'some symptoms'