Some Long Term Effects of Exposures to 2-butoxyethanol 

Could be Very Similar to Isotretinoin

 

I know that the Inipol EAP 22 was purported to be a 'fertilizer'-type compound & was supposed to bioremediate the crude oil of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill by application with humans dispensing... so exposed if they breathed in the fumes &/or got in on their skin.  Turns out that 2-butoxyethanol  is classified as a poison & was a surfactant.  So strong that it was this surfactant quality that in lay terms, 'dry cleaned' the beaches.  Like using 'Spray 'n Wash'  It did not bioremediate anything other than maybe a little of the refined oil they put back into the water.  A hoax all the way.

 

Ingredients in Accutane active, Isotretinoin, inactive:  butylated hydroxyanisole, edetate disodium, hydrogenated soybean oil flakes, hydrogenated vegatable oil, soybean oil and some minor others in gelatin capsules: glycerin and parabens (methyl and propyl), with the following dye systems: 10mg-iron oxide and titanium dioxide; 20mg - FD&C Red No. 3, FD&C Blue No. 1, and titanium dioxide; 40mg - FD&C Yellow No. 6, D&C Yellow No 10, and titanium dioxide.

 

How much Success has Accutane Had?

Not in Sales... but in clearing up acne that may have cleared up on its own anyway?

My question.  Could it be that this is a hoax too?   That there is no relief from nodular acne?  But that the drug industry seized upon a teen's desire for acceptance and insecurity with acne in his or her life... that a new product which ends up earning the company millions is not being banned?  Or if it is successful in the very limited use it should be put to...knowing that it can be used improperly & health damage to user & unborn children (as it is a teratogen) is certainly not worth the risks of approval by FDA

 

With 2-butoxyethanol strong use and strong exposure, not a one of these workers would have a chance of escaping the health damage:  those that worked say, 6 weeks in 1989 (Aug-Sept) ... that alone was enough to cause the overexposure... but some would have worked the summer of 1990, too.  It might not take that much time exposure to affect your health... we might be talking a lot longer than one month after exposures.  Sometimes, as they say, the damage lasts.

 

It is striking, that the damage warnings to people is so similar.

Some of these comments seem innocuous

... but when you look more closely... they should be like neon lights...

WARNING!  WARNING!  WARNING!

Though the Accutane Medication Guide states Possible Serious Side Effects as

Signs of other possibly serious problems.

Also dry skin, chapped lips, dry eyes, dry nose that may lead to nosebleeds.  These are not all of Accutane's possible side effects.

Blood damage:  in the case of 2-butoxyehanol it is hemolytic anemia  (Crude oil's benzene blood damage is aplastic anemia)  What are they looking for in the bloodwork the doctors do with Isotretinoin - Accutane?  One comment was maybe there could be a low white blood cell count.  Goodness that might make it hard for your body to fight disease.  What else might it mean?  Benzene is known to cause leukemia.  What have those who took Accutane been coming down with?  Maybe the drug companies don't really want to know... If you come forward and share... (with an independent entity)  you can help take this drug off the market & spare others health damage.  If you've already reported it to the manufacturer or to the FDA report it again to someone else.

 

Skin Damage... sounds the same;  2-butoxyethanol defats the skin.  One man mentioned his ears couldn't be in the sun, the skin would crack; massive nose bleeding that won't stop, from thin membranes; rash in the lining of the stomach (Stomach cancer a few years later occurred in a man who only transported the chemicals.. he said some spilled in his boat.  He is now at death's door with recurring stomach cancer and melanoma)

 

Central Nervous System Damage:  difficulty concentrating, extreme irritability, clinic depression constantly, suicidal tendencies. (Once you have damaged the Central Nervous System, it is said to be permanent.  Can you imagine living your whole life being clinically depressed  * every day, no matter what?  Can you imagine how hard it would be to have good interpersonal relationships & maintain a good marriage... be a good parent to your children?  Get an education?  Keep a job?) 

 

Dark urine:  that is blood in the urine representative of kidney damage... checking kidney and liver function levels for the rest of your life.  This is one of the admonitions the workers with Inipol EAP 22 are faced with  (Those who spray paint cars or work with 2-butoxyethanol exposures from other sources, too)  Problem is, most of them don't know it & will be close to kidney failure before they know it.

 

Reproductive damage in men as well as women.  Some will not be able to have children.  If they do, they could be born deformed.  The next generation could be affected, too.

 

A few years out, check for things like stomach cancer, melanoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, bone cancer, liver cancer, lymph related cancers... (They don't tell you this, because they say it hasn't been tested for in humans.)  

 

Most doctors are unfamiliar with chemical causes of such health damage as here described.  Even the workers don't understand they need to avoid chemicals... don't drink... don't take any chemicals;  taking an anti-depressant for Central Nervous System damage will not help... likely it will hurt.  These need to learn a life-style of avoiding all chemicals.

If the bioremediation workers of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup... or those who chose a career of spray painting cars had it to do all over again.... they never would have taken such employment.  They may have shortened their life span by 30 years +/- and been ill instead of healthy in the years intervening.  Facts are just now coming in, because they didn't realize the risks they encountered... didn't have the benefit of the bloodwork the company did at that time.  These workers didn't have the information on the product before being exposed to it in their work.

I know what my son would have decided... given all the options:  "No way, Hosea"  I'm out of here.

At least Accutane prospective users and their doctors can make a decision prior to ingesting a teratogen.  Maybe only dermatologists should be allowed to prescribe Accutane. (If it is deemed to accomplish any more than a hurry up of what was going to happen anyway... given good, healthy life-style of those who are working to clean up their severe acne... & that it will continue to be approved by FDA at all.)  Back... more things to consider  www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/poison.htm 

Check with Dr. Ben Carson... Neuro Brain surgeon... to help develop a plan to Survive Acne  *  

Develop your own User Survey

 

Ever heard the expression, "Haste Makes Waste?"

What was the hurry to cleanup the Exxon Valdez oil spill?  ... they didn't... they only appeared to & in the meantime, they damaged multi hundreds of lives unnecessarily.  They made a bad situation worse by poisoning the oceans and the people with 2-butoxyethanol... maybe for image sake... maybe for a money-maker 'miracle product'  But in the end, it was the winter storms of Alaska that cleaned the beaches of the oil.  

(Hot water wash?  "Oh if 120 degrees doesn't do anything," one supervisor said, "Kick it up to 180 degrees!" ... just drove the oil deeper into the ground - destroying whole sand dollar colonies, flora & fauna, and stirring up the oil to expose the workers to benzenes, etc)  

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