I asked Walter Reed Medical about 'Gulf War Syndrome' vets. How many had hemolytic anemia? They said you didn't - not in any significant number, that is. Well, you can have it and go to a doctor now and be told your red blood counts are borderline normal & hemoglobin is about ok, too.

Well, you should all be given tests for what chemicals you may have been exposed to that may still be residual in your system, (such as Accu-chem laboratories is expert at) ... and you should be checked for things above and beyond the normal tests:    (Hematology Overview )   restated in chart format

Narcosis
Damage to the kidney
Damage to the liver
Does blood work present an abnormal blood picture showing: Erythropenia
Does blood work present an abnormal blood picture showing: Reticulocytosis
Does blood work present an abnormal blood picture showing: Granulocytosis
Does blood work present an abnormal blood picture showing: Leukocytosis
Likely to Cause Fragility of Erythrocytes
Likely to Cause Hematuria

... & chemicals cause Central Nervous System (CNS) DEPRESSION!
Here is a study on CNS effects from solvents such as 2-butoxyethanl:
http://www.valdezlink.com/solvent_studies.htm#story In particular showing an example of second hand solvent exposure & makes me think of how a spouse could come down with the same symptoms without initial exposure.

These organs are targeted: http://www.valdezlink.com/organs_affect_list.htm

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


CHRONIC EFFECTS - TARGET ORGANS:
Blood
Kidneys
Liver
Central Nervous System
Testes
Overexposure may cause reproductive disorder

They should periodically give troops the check up list to see what responses their body may be giving to too much chemical - whatever it is:
http://www.valdezlink.com/gwv/gws_too_much_chemicals.htm I'd say this needs to be done quarterly and kept in each person's medical record. (It will educate them to STOP doing whatever they're doing when they have eyes watering and burning and dark or black urine for instance.)

These are the symptoms of hemolytic anemia that I found on the internet 

(As you know I am a 'learner' but not a medically trained person)

http://www.valdezlink.com/generic.htm
These are chemicals of such concern: http://www.valdezlink.com/same.htm

I had someone say his lymph nodes were swollen through out his whole body. Two years ago he did have a low red blood cell anemia per his doctor, but after a colonoscopy, a bone marrow test, and a lymph node biopsy, it was not any of the problems the doctor was looking for in those tests. IF they had looked further, I believe they would have found the hemolytic anemia. But as you can imagine, he was sick 'n tired of it all and gave up. In the job he did his employer at the time knew he was exposed to 2-butoxyethanol in the Inipol EAP 22 he was spraying in 1989 and 1990. http://www.valdezlink.com/oct.htm#person

This blood damage with 2-butoxyethanol type exposures (may be in the gun cleaner the troops use & where else?) is immediate; and it does not go away. If one of you gets an accurate diagnosis on it; tell the others how; and you will all look the same today as you did then.

Acquired auto-immune hemolytic anemia?  Ask for complete comments of the lab tech