Are Auto Mechanics at risk by the way? Are body shop workers? One called me last week and was asking about this. I told him, that although researchers know the harm of this chemical, its harm to people is hard to find, medically.

At least ask whether or not your red blood cells more immature? Is there blood in urine?

Quote:  "Without proper precautions, anyone who works with hydrocarbons...crude oil derived products, are at risk."  DocDiggs

That's one of the main problems. Painters and brick masons (at the cleaning phase) ... moms cleaning at home. Many people are exposed to 2-butoxyethanol in too strong a concentration and they do not protect their eyes. Even the warnings are inadequate. Paint cans have started to say to not ingest ETHYLENE GLYCOL as it causes kidney damage (That's not all it does; and when I asked Fuller O'Brien, they wouldn't even tell me WHICH ethylene glycol) Of the 740 varieties, ethylene glycol monobutyl ether is the #1 most commonly used.

Passing through the grocery check stand last month I noticed how tired the bagging employee looked & commented on it. His eyes were red and bloodshot. He said, "Oh, I work two jobs, my other job is painting at Dunken 'n Bush" Well, I said YOU MUST NOT GET THOSE PAINT FUMES IN YOUR EYES. Go to the auto store & get some air tight goggles ... or go get some swimming goggles. YOU MUST NOT GET THOSE FUMES IN YOUR EYES. Want to have children some day? Want to stay healthy yourself and not come down with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

They make a brief comment on such in this classic LA news article on the worker 'protective equipment' (or lack thereof)

Last young man that I spoke to in this same job said, "Oh, he'd come down with diabetes" (Uh, huh???) at 25 & with these chemicals in his professsion, it is more than likely 'endocrine disruption' from 2-butoxyethanol; but all that is noted is that they have high blood sugar. (Often times high blood pressure; horrible headaches, the works) And other related health changes and metabolic problems

Robin shared these concerns:

Quote:   Loosing Eyesight? Have you had too much exposure to some chemicals? 2-butoxyethanol main entrance is thru the eyes and cuticles You may need to see a specialist! States one Volunteer to the Seward baby seal project after the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill cleanup, "I used to have 20/20 vision, but now have lost 80% of my vision." "The optometrist expressed extreme urgency to see a specialist, I had 30 holes in the retina. I had to have a laser beam hit the optic nerve in the eye (Horrible pain) so I wouldn't go blind." 4-17-03 Talk to your own doctor... they can know what you need. state "All of the workers at end of season, 1989, had come down with open sores in our mouths, like one aborted, but rescued baby seal had, end of season." "We were told by the clinic that what we had was a virus." (Note: Mouth ulcers is one symptom of overexposure to chemicals) Actually there's lots more wrong with me than just my eyes: robin my personality totally changed! Others will so affirm! I can be talking in mid sentence, and forget what I was going to say. (Doctor calls it short term memory loss) my blood sugar goes sky high; I need a pancreas transplant; my child was born with multiple heart defects; bone problems - several discs in my back nerve problems, no feeling in knee, foot, hand problem with the small bowels and more.... "I've been to Mayo clinic several times; doctors don't know what's caused this." Update: Had pancreas & spleen removed May 5, 2003 (awaiting a transplant)

I firmly believe that there are a lot of 'heart attacks' and 'stroke' diagnosis for this group of people who actually die from the rapid heart beat or collapse from lack of blood from the autoimmune hemolytic anemia that underlies all the other health ailments.

In the FDR documentary, they made no mention of his dying of a stroke, but the other things such as headache and collapsing after an acute headache such as had become very frequent. Experts have gone back into the information available and declared that he was in clinical depression at the time he was meeting with Stalin in February, 1945. The pattern of this chemical's harm is here, that's all I can say. Since the President and the Pope are carefully watched and their activities logged, you may find the source of this chemical exposure in each case.

I wrote to Johns Hopkins University and complimented them on their pioneering in open heart surgery for the 'blue baby project' and asked if they would be interested in researching this chemical's harm. We would have a lot fewer babies born with congenital heart defects & need fewer surgeries, therefore (if this chemical weren't harming our children) Fewer, 'strokes' and 'heart attacks' as well.

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