2-butoxyethanol poisoning 'looks like' the FLU - but it's not the FLU, it's a chemical poisoning

2-butoxyethanol overexposure LOOKS LIKE the FLU

This is what an acute exposure to this chemical would be like: 12-19-03 Daughter: "Yes, I remember all to well when my eyes started burning like there was hot pokers in them. It coincided with a VERY nasty stomach bug...vomiting, the runs...it was miserable. My urine turned black, like coffee. What did President Eisenhower's doctors call 'the runs?' (what we call diarrhea) an immediate explosive evacuation of the intestines What else did he have? Crohn’s disease * Heart issues The day I got sick I had been rolling around in a very nasty store cleaning up the mess. (box account in Sugar Land, TX) That night I was so sick...took me 2 days to get the energy up to drag myself to the doctor's office & threw up all over it for him to tell me I had the flu." Margaret: "These 'flu' like symptoms are also the signs of having too much chemical exposure of some kind. Now, what were you using to clean up?" (Shares her mother, "She has many of the symptoms you are talking about. The doctors don't know what's wrong. She has been diagnosed with kidney failure and a lot of other scary things. She is 31 and expected to die.) AND ... she kept getting exposed to it, too Kidney & liver & glandular damage ... part of what 2-butoxyethanol would do Here is another Navy man's comments - 'Cisero' He is describing things like the symptoms of 2-butoxyethanol poisoning. He says he wasn't in the Gulf War during the right time period. The military can answer what the KNOWN exposures to 2-butoxyethanol and Diethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether are The National Academy of Sciences, in their 2003 book, Gulf War and Health Vol 2, p. 612, the page on Insecticides and Solvents They do list them as solvent exposures For Gulf War Troops * How do you feel? A chemical exposure that is the same for EVOS & Gulf war vets After oil, which does not seem to be a primary cause of harm for most EVOS workers OR 'gulf war syndrome' vets ... though it is harmful.... the only chemical exposure that is the same for gulf war vets and Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup workers ... is 2-butoxyethanol. These are listed as solvents the Gulf War Troops 1990-1991 were exposed to original source C₆H₁₄O₂/CH₃(CH₂)₂CH₂OCH₂CH₂OH A N D Those with CFIDS also 'look like' these ALS may be caused by this commonly used cleaning - degreaser chemical More Now, keep in mind that if someone is affected by 2-butoxyethanol, they won't have just ONE thing wrong ... and keep in mind that the researchers KNOW what this chemical does. The missing link is for people and their doctors to recognize its 'flu' For those who are interested, have them check for blood in urine, and for the 'retic rate' at 2.5 days after the flu starts up Wouldn't it be something if all this century it has been a chemically induced flu? ... not from a virus, as is commonly thought? There is a FLU that's not the flu AND you are not dealing with an environmental issue, but an everybody at every age issue e-mail