Sudden Infant Death Syndrome 

             http://www.sids.org

I suppose any time you see the term ... "syndrome' it means that the doctors recognize what your are talking about exists, but they don't know what causes it.

If people only realized that the harm of 2-buotyxethanol affects THEM. It is so pervasive in our country; it has been so for so long; that almost every one knows someone and most likely would even have close family members affected by it.

In listening to the stories of the gulf war vets; their children born before they were deployed (& spouses) in some cases came down with the 'gulf war syndrome' too.

I've learned that second hand exposure is not that hard to come into; along with possibly being born with a little exposure from our parents ... and getting our own in life;

Now, a baby can't take as much as a grown person can.

 Dear Maggie
 
  

Why did I study this chemical?
 

.... only they saw it coming? ... or did they?

This gulf war vet describes a wrenching story of the loss of his child:

Oct 11, 2000 by Jody Crockett, "I am JDC4058. I served in the storm bravely and honorably just like the majority of you out there. I have something tearing my heart out and I would like to know if there is anyone out there who has suffered the same thing as I have.

In November of 1992 my wife gave birth to by all appearances a healthy baby girl. 15 days later my baby girl was dead from an unknown illness. All of her organs began shutting down all of a sudden and there was just nothing that could be done to save her. Her liver was the first organ to fail.

After that all of her other organs just shut down one by one. After her funeral I hired a medical malpractice lawyer to find out just what she died of as the resident pathologist in the hospital in which she died could not give me a definitive cause for her death. Her death certificate states that she died of the Herpes Simplex Virus. That is a funny thing as neither my wife or my self suffer from any type of Herpes Simplex Virus.

I don't know what to do. I don't know where to go for help. My heart is broken forever and I would dearly love for one of my comrades in arms to tell me what has happened to my beautiful little girl. Please help!"

      There are no words to express our sorry -    

Dear Maggie

"A gulf war vet shared that last year their little girl turned 10 years old and was diagnosed with hepatitis. It was an autoimmune hepatitis and her immune system was attacking her own liver. She died Dec, 2003

He knew I was studying such issues and asked me if I had heard of that. I said, "No, but that it would be the kind of thing that 2-butoxyethanol would do" Liver and kidneys and other bodily systems including blood are at risk.

The blood damage that is not found is autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Maybe you could ask the doctors whether or not she has that? They have to check the 'retic rate' and other things like whether or not the red blood cells are immature and whether or not there is blood in urine. www.valdezlink.com/psa.htm The hemoglobin and hematocrit that they first look at usually is OK except in the most extreme cases.

Parents harmed by this chemical can pass along some of it to their children because it is a teratogen. www.valdezlink.com/pages/teratogens.htm
and if the parents are doing menial work, like housekeeping, cleaning of buildings and such, they could very easily run into this chemical.

Other concerns of gulf war vets' children have

SIDS 

Can babies & older people, too, be exposed 

to n-butyl ether chemicals ? 

which can cause liver 

and other organs to shut down?

What about the soldiers who died of 'pneumonia' in Iraq in 03?

  Dear Maggie

Test this for fatigue   

So, if you are holding a new baby, and have been feeling more tired & grouchy than normal, remember that you can expel the chemicals like 2-butoxyethanol in your breath ... and the main route of exposure may be into the eyes of another.   I suggest the researchers for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome look into this ... that maybe the body system just suddenly shuts down, more than that the child quits breathing, and let's put the baby on its back to sleep ...

Dear Maggie

OSHA was checking into this chemical family Nov, 2002 for 46,000 auto workers.

Others around the world seem to know more about its harm than we do. Why is that?

Why I studied 2-butoxyethanol Why I studied this chemical (Had I not done so, I NEVER would have known or recognized its patterns or found the common denominator)

Dear Maggie

Maybe we could Lobby Congress to eliminate this chemical from harming anyone else AND spend our efforts on finding a cure. These would likely have a weakened immune system and we are expecting a pandemic flu epidemic? I am concerned for these.

Dear Maggie