Shared a friend, (also a baby boomer)

"My mom worked in a furniture factory before I was born: lots of paint and varnish fumes there.

As I grew up, my dad was in the painting business and taught all my brothers how to paint professionally. (He died of prostate cancer) (One brother is very seriously ill today - wound won't heal - FATIGUE)"

"I was born with only one ovary, the other ovary was a tumor. At age 13 I weighed 79 lbs and the tumor was 9 pounds of that. I looked like one of the starving children but with the tummy bulge on the left side. When I got married, the doctor advised us to have our children early. We did."

One daughter died of Lupus after she was grown. She had endometriosis and it was a miracle she could have a child at all. She was never told that there would be no more children - ovaries were harmed - they were swollen to the size of sausages.

Illustration of the urinary tract or system consisting of the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and urethra.

Her son had a 'birth defect' of sorts:

His ureter tube was too small & had to be operated on

She thinks the horrible headaches that she and her mom and grandma have / had are just 'hereditary.' I suspect they were all poisoned by 2-butoxyethanol type chemicals"

She doesn't think 2-butoxyethanol has harmed her ... even when her son recently almost died from flu-fatigue .... that was diagnosed as serious diabetes

She thinks 2-butoxyethanol is just something Exxon Valdez oil spill workers had exposure to

Maybe diabetes type 2, pituitary brain tumors & multiple autoimmune metabolic problems are birth defects

from WWII parents' exposure to 2-butoxyethanol?

(or similar chemical)

D-Day?

And these? 'late to show up birth defects'

e-mail

2006

An Autoimmune Issue?

Ask you doctor to test for immune globulins & more in the blood

What things could be considered autoimmune?

And These Crohn's - IBS? Gulf war vet - MS

National Institutes of Health Autoimmune Diseases Research Plan. (pdf)

Is Lou Gehrig's Autoimmune?

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?

Is gallstone pancreatitis such as John Ashcroft has ... autoimmune?

A good overview on the immune system

Cellular Immune Activation in Gulf War Vets

Trying to Shut Off the Body's Friendly Fire - New York Times

Pappy Ronnie's Immune Info - & - More Blood info Explained


	I suspect Aristotle Onassis was health damaged by THIS chemical, too; and as usual, it was not recognized by his doctors. "I'm convinced that metabolic features (changes in cholesterol and lipid profile, changes in glucose uptake and cell use, mitochondrial diseases and so on) are among main underestimated issue of 2-BE," says a French journalist