You can achieve a medical break-through if you can find out what is wrong with red blood cells of those with 'assorted-gulf-syndrome-type' symptoms. 

These odd assortment of symptoms most likely are harm from ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (2-butoxyethanol).  This is the chemical the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup workers were exposed to.  And it is one gulf war troops were exposed to along with 2-(2-butoxyethanol) & our current troops - the same.  Some of your current patients, even from the general population, also.  (Many more than you might believe)

Another person affected told me that when he was collapsing & having seizures, the only thing that helped him was a transfusion of whole blood.  (Chemicals – even medications add to an already chemical overload.)

Can you see what accu-chem labs might be able to test for?

Dr. Walter Crinnion    Healing Naturally

(425) 821-8118  Message:  206-444-4275  11-01  

11811 N.E. 128th Street,   Kirkland, WA 98034

Trains medical doctors in chemical testing  & what to do once results come back 

Some helps in diagnosis for the blood damage?   (Fatigue)

·         What is happening with the red blood cells? 

·         What size are they? 

·         What shape? 

·         What is the ‘Retic’ ratio?

·         Iron storage and utilization?

·         Complete Blood Counts

·         Absolute Cell count (part of routine blood test)

www.valdezlink.com/anemia_check.htm#more

http://www.valdezlink.com/what_does_lab_recommend.htm

Is there a way to test for how much oxygen in your system?

Medical Study of many groups needed

Are Small Red Blood Cells Baby Red Blood Cells?
Or is something else going on? One man learned thru his young daughter's cancer that small red blood cells can be an indication of leukemia in children. Don't know what it means for adults. An absolute cell count is supposed to be part of a routine blood test, and it can give an indication of how you are doing, too.

But could the small blood cells be baby red blood cells? Were they normal shape?  One exposure gulf war vets had was to these solvents: 2-butoxyethanol and diethylene glycol monobutyl ether. These are also pesticides and they are poisons. This chemical can cause all the symptoms of 'gulf war syndrome' and in particular the literature on the chemical says that it causes hemolytic anemia.

This is a mystery, because unless you are a blood specialist, it isn't easily findable by the groups of workers KNOWN to be exposed to this chemical : 1000 bioremediation workers of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup in Inipol EAP 22. (Oh, yes, and the US Coast Guard who monitored that whole experiment AND the US Navy on the USS Deluth and the USS Cleveland which handled the experimental Corexit, July, 1989 and on.)  More

Look at the disclosure for Corexit 9527 Does the military use it somewhere today? Shouldn't! Could be the cause of Navy SEABEES getting 'gulf war syndrome symptoms' from loading and unloading it on ships, or the cause of 'pneumonia' in the desert (pulmonary edema from ethylene oxide which could be there but not listed as one of the 'trace' ingredients), or the cause of higher than normal 'suicides' The central nervous system damage of too much exposure to 2-butoxyethanol can cause suicidal tendencies.

Some information suggests you could first have compensating hemolytic anemia in which the bone marrow compensates for the premature destruction of red blood cells, but these immature red blood cells are low functioning and thus your fatigue. Retic ratio may be the first step towards seeing if the ratio between mature and immature red blood cells is normal, or if something indicates otherwise.  (Why fatigue?)

One doctor shared that new red blood cells are large-sized. Hmm, but how is your iron? Maybe if they don't contain enough iron (needed to make red blood cells, by the way) they could be smaller sized. Doctors don't think that exposure to a chemical long years ago would have any of that chemical in your system. That is likely true; however, the harm done should be measurable. The blood is said to be damaged first and to underlie all the other harm it causes.   

I am so hopeful that doctors who understand these things will help you and the many others even in the general population who are harmed by this chemical. It is in many, many products and the public is not suspecting the serious harm it can cause.

Let your patient explain his/her own symptoms to you.

Ask about headaches

Ask about the ‘loosing temper quickly’

Ask about the fatigue  - how he used to be able to work, vs now

Remember a time when urine turned dark or even black _____; Then flu-like symptoms ___

Ask about vision (can become ‘legally blind’) Holes in eye tissue?

(DO NOT MIST) The worst exposure to this chemical –

Remember a time when your eyes burned like hot pokers were in them

Ask about Rapid heart rate, and the size of heart chambers - any enlarged glands

Ask about rapid weight loss (check liver?)

Ask about blood in urine in recent years – 'Have you had times when you feel like you need to urinate, but nothing happens?' (check kidney/adrenals?)

Ask about skin damage ___ Ask about the ‘kerosene type chemical’ that was at the Dayville dump when he was red bagging … & how it spilled & melted his gloves and boots.

Any sinus or lung problems?

Difficulty sleeping at night?

Depression, difficulty concentrating, short-term memory loss?

Any suicidal tendencies?

...Had temperature that is high or low for no reason?

Seizures ____ ,  Collapsing _____

Joint pain ____

How is your immune system? ____

Ask if there have been any irregularities with any of the endocrine glands:

Thyroid___, Pituitary ___, Hypothalamus ___, Growth Irregularities ____,   Pancreas: Insulin ___, Blood sugar ___, Digestive Juices _____,

Blood Pressure:  High ___,  Low ___ . Adrenal Glands: ____, Hormones off ____

Immune system out of whack, ‘Catch everything that is going around & you stay ill longer? ____ Gall Bladder Affected _____, Any reproductive harm? ____ damage to testes – burning semen ____

Bouts with paralysis

Grande Mal Seizures

Any swollen, ulcerated organs:

Gall bladder ___,

Spleen ___,

Pancreas ___,

Testes ___,

Heart ___, 

These ___ Other ____

Do your bones hurt?

Any of these symptoms of hemolytic anemia  *
Chills 
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!)
Enlarged spleen

This chemical also causes:  Narcosis 
Damage to the kidney 
Damage to the liver 
Present an abnormal blood picture showing: Erythropenia 
Present an abnormal blood picture showing: Reticulocytosis 
Present an abnormal blood picture showing: Granulocytosis 
Present an abnormal blood picture showing: Leukocytosis 
Likely to Cause Fragility of Erythrocytes 
Likely to Cause Hematuria 

Causes Central Nervous System (CNS) DEPRESSION   *
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)

Need more input?  Ask for this info http://www.valdezlink.com/gwv_symptoms.htm Hoping you can get an accurate diagnosis ... for so many in our country ... on the blood damage & check any other things that apply.  Thank you, Margaret

3-15-04