Consider 2-butoxyethanol - birth defect 

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Name: Margaret Diann 
E-Mail: margaret.realhelp@gmail.com

I just believe that it is part of a much bigger problem ... 
not a singular cause/effect

Or if the exact prognosis of what is occurring is accurately defined, it doesn't cover the original source of the problem (if 2-butoxyethanol is involved) A chemical exposure that can cause CFS, CFIDS 'gulf war syndrome' harm to the Vietnam vet & housewives alike.

Maybe it is an autoimmune reaction to babies' shots ...

Or maybe it is a birth defect from parents who have been poisoned by a chemical which causes autoimmune dysfunction. (This possibility should not be overlooked)

Or maybe the child has had all the chemical load he/she can handle ... and the shots (chemicals also) ... push them over the edge to their own autoimmune dysfunction ... of which there are many. The list seems to be growing at an alarming rate

Link: Could autism be autoimmune - a birth defect from 2-butoxyethanol exposure
Added on Date:6/24/05
http://www.healing-arts.org/dbasics/wwwboard/board/messages/2821.html

A metabolic disorder?

Maybe not caused from mercury

I just discovered Dr. Buttar's idea's about chelation. His theory is that ASD kids can't detox themselves and chelation helps because of that. But most don't chelate because the levels of the mercury when tested are lower than that of "normal" children! Dr. Buttar kept testing his son and the levels started to raise dramatically! Mercury probably isn't the only cause--autoimmunity in families of ASD kids is being looked into also. My grandfather died of ALS--what about the mercury loads of the WWII gis...my grandfather got shots everytime he arrived at a new duty station! My aunt and uncle both have sarcoidosis (SP?) and another aunt has graves disease. My mother is on Human Growth Hormone replacement therapy and had a pituitary adnoma(sp?) years ago. Another doctor (an endocrinologist) from Joplin , MO has tested 11 or 12 ASD kids and they all have low HGH levels--YIPES!!! I just keep praying that if I tell enough people that something might click with someone!!! I will be taking your question with me when we take Reed to the environmental doc for the first time. Thanks-
Jennifer Kurtz

a pituitary adenoma?  ALS?

Hi, I just noticed your reply & you replied so quickly
 
I believe all these things you  mention can be caused from exposure to 2-butoxyethanol ... and that you should be careful of your own exposure to it, if you suspect that people in your family line have been affected
 
Pituitary adenoma & ALS would be a harm that shows up with the MOST exposure to it
Please look at more info on this chemical in a discussion forum I have set up:
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http://groups.msn.com/Avoid2-BEforHealth-MM 
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National Institutes of Health Autoimmune Diseases Research Plan. (pdf)

Is Lou Gehrig's or ALS Autoimmune?  Lou Gehrig - Famous Baseball player

In autoimmune hemolytic anemia, the body produces autoantibodies to red blood cell membrane proteins. (size? shape RBCs?)

In diabetes mellitus, autoantibodies are formed against insulin receptors.

Graves 's disease is associated with autoantibodies to thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) receptors.

Pernicious anemia can be caused when autoantibodies are formed against intrinsic factor which is needed for vitamin B12 absorption.

Researchers have proposed that ALS may have an autoimmune basis. 

The following are the bases for their hypotheses:

Analyses of ALS patient sera have identified circulating antibodies secreted by denervated muscle. These antibodies inhibit the stimulation of the sprouting of axons, the long arms of neurons which conduct nervous impulses to other neurons throughout the body (Onion 1998).


Researchers have found an immunoglobulin that affects the conductance of neuronal voltage-activated calcium channels which may induce an excessive release of glutamate from nerve endings (Onion 1998).


Several studies of ALS patients found the presence of antibodies that interact with motor neurons (Pestronk et al. 1988a; Pestronk et al. 1988b; Pestronk et al. 1989; Niebroj-Dobosz et al. 1999).
Immune complexes have been found in spinal cords of patients with ALS.


It has been proposed that T cells, activated microglia, and immunoglobulin G (IgG) within the spinal cord lesions may be the primary event that leads to tissue destruction in ALS.

Immunoglobulins high? - low?  Some definitions

Maybe the levels are high ... 

because you are dealing with an autoimmune issue ... 

not a virus? (Well maybe the viruses, too, but not the bacteria)

 

Maybe the levels drop too low ... 

because the immune system is 'wearing out' 

due to over activity for 10+ years?

The basics - to find diagnosis for fatigue      Autoimmune?

 

http://groups.msn.com/Avoid2-BEforHealth-MM