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  2-butoxyethanol KNOWN sources - What about some of the fly/bug pesticides?  *
Mother Margaret
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Looking for those who had eyes burning and urine turning dark brown to black and an immediate exhaustion by the next morning. Want to know all pesticides sprayed in area of troop arena and any defogger pesticides used. Anything so hazardous to require applicators to use goggles, gloves, boots, chemically protective clothing and respirators, is too much exposure for troops to be living in and working in all the time. www.valdezlink.com/gwv/gws_applicators.htm 

By the way, we have another person in same group as Staff Sgt James Alford with same symptoms www.valdezlink.com/pages/alford.htm#note Might this be a severe form of 'Gulf War Syndrome'? It doesn't make sense to me to say from mad cow disease ... because per this article, he was having problems before he went to Afghanistan.

Military has known exposures to 2-butoxyethanol. What are they? What are unknown sources? www.valdezlink.com/gwv/gwv6-14.htm#known

It appears that some of the bug/fly pesticides had the warnings of 2-butoxyethanol ingredients (whether or not these hazardous ingredients were so stated on the product) www.valdezlink.com/gwv/gwv6-14.htm#pest Now were they ones used by the individual soldiers? Or were they sprayed in a large area that soldiers frequented? Would those coming to the area be at risk, if 2-butoxyethanol chemicals were there? Or just soldiers that were doing the spraying of the pesticides?

Do you have the 'package' of odd symptoms that it causes? www.valdezlink.com/scenario.htm

AND what does you blood say? www.valdezlink.com/gwv/gwv6-14.htm#facts

www.valdezlink.com/generic.htm

These are 2-butoxyethanol warnings I see on the pesticide exposure report. They can be inert ingredients and not identified specifically as long as hazard warnings are there. Defogging is the worst exposure as the eyes are a more serious route of exposure than even the skin.

Here is a chart to see if you have been checked for these health concerns: www.valdezlink.com/pages/why&howChart.htm Help your doctor all you can; give the symptoms you had of chemical exposure www.valdezlink.com/gwv/gws_too_much_chemicals.htm and ask that you have any additional test for blood damage, if not already done.

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December 20, 2003   Repost 1-22-05  'Mother Margaret'