A hospital lab was trying to determine why anemia for my friend www.valdezlink.com/re /myfriendnorm.htm 

Thanks for praying for Norma - I hope the lab checks everything necessary for a proper anemia diagnosis

Usually the anemia hides out.  Red Blood Cells look at least 'borderline' normal.  Doctors have been looking for the fatigue of CFIDS for many decades.  Presidents' doctors and the doctors of the wealthy are looking for 'the idiopathic anemia' too.

 

I suspect that Hemoglobin may be sufficiently present (for many years), but not properly utilized by people with exposure to 2-butoxyethanol.

 This chemical won't do just one thing - If you only have one health issue, and/or your parent doesn't have 'the odd assortment of CFIDS symptoms,' don't suspect 2-butoxyethanol poisoning.

When they code what you're seeing the doctor for, it is under the category: 

Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs (280-289)
(280) Iron deficiency anemias
(280.0) Iron deficiency anemia, chronic blood loss
(280.1) Iron deficiency anemia, decreased intake
(281) Other deficiency anemias
(281.0) pernicious anemia
(281.2) Anemia, folate deficiency
(281.3) Other specified megaloblastic anemias, not elsewhere classified
(282) Hereditary hemolytic anemias
(282.0) Hereditary spherocytosis
(282.2) G6PD
(282.5) Sickle-cell trait
(282.6) Sickle-cell anemia
(283) Acquired hemolytic anemias
(283.0) Autoimmune hemolytic anemias
Warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia
(283.1) Non-autoimmune hemolytic anemias
(283.2) Hemoglobinuria due to hemolysis from external causes
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
(284) Aplastic anemia
Fanconi anemia
(285) Other and unspecified anemias
(285.9) Anemia, other, unspec.
(286) Coagulation defects
(286.0) Haemophilia A
(286.1) Haemophilia B
(286.2) Haemophilia C
(286.3) Congenital deficiency of other clotting factors
Factor XIII deficiency
(286.4) Von Willebrand's disease
(286.5) Hemorrhagic disorder due to intrinsic anticoagulants
(286.6) Defibrination syndrome
(286.7) Acquired coagulation factor deficiency
(286.9) Coagulation defects, other
(287) Purpura and other hemorrhagic conditions
(287.0) Allergic purpura
Henoch-Schönlein purpura
(287.3) Thrombocytopenia, primary
(287.31) Immune thrombocytopenic purpura
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
(287.4) Thrombocytopenia, secondary
(287.9) Hemorrhagic conditions, unspec.
(288) Diseases of white blood cells
(288.0) Leukopenia
(288.3) Eosinophilia
(288.8) Other specified disease of white blood cells
(288.9) Abnormal white blood cells, unspec.
(289) Other diseases of blood and blood-forming organs
(289.1) Lymphadenitis, chronic
(289.7) Methemoglobinemia
(289.8) Other specified diseases of blood and blood-forming organs
(289.81) Primary hypercoagulable state
Protein C deficiency
Protein S deficiency
Antithrombin III deficiency
(289.89) Other specified disease of blood and blood-forming organs

However, I first noticed the term on the Material Safety Data Sheet for 2-butoxyethanol ... that it targets liver and kidneys; affects blood and blood forming organs. Maybe there is someone else who can help out here?

Quote: "Chronic Exposure: Prolonged or repeated exposures can cause damage to the liver, kidneys, lymphoid system, blood and blood-forming organs

Kidneys send hormones that help make red blood cells and help with strong bones.

Liver is a major organ; blood formation is part of what it does

 

http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/checklistcfids.htm  
Horrible Headaches *  & other things in CFIDS, CFS
 

and it is an AUTOIMMUNE issue
 
Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup workers and those they were around, would be able to 'prove' that this chemical IS the cause of 'gulf war syndrome'  Soldiers also had exposure to 2-butoxyethanol and 2-2-butoxyethanol also known as ethylene glycol monobutyl ether
  • Look for the pattern of CFIDS;
  • Find this chemical's anemia
  • Look for autoimmune issues – even most of the cancers especially blood and blood forming organs, central nervous system, KIDNEYS and LIVER
 
 
AUTOAGGLUTINATION
    In severe cases of immune mediated hemolytic anemia, the immune destruction of red cells is so blatant that the red cells clump together (because their antibody coatings stick together) when a drop of blood is placed on a microscope slide. Imagine a drop of blood forming not a red spot but a yellow spot with a small red clump inside it. This finding is especially for boding.
     
LEUKEMOID REACTION
    Classically, in IMHA the stimulation of the bone marrow is so strong that even the white blood cells lines (which have very little to do with this disease but which also are born and incubate in the bone marrow along side the red blood cells) are stimulated. This leads to white blood cell counts that are spectacularly high.
MORE TESTS NEEDED
 
COOMB'S TEST (ALSO CALLED A "DIRECT ANTIBODY TEST")
This is a test designed to identify antibodies coating red blood cell surfaces.  This test is the current state of the art for the diagnosis of IMHA but, unfortunately, it is not as helpful as it might seem.  It can be erroneously positive in the presence of inflammation or infectious disease (which might lead to harmless attachment of antibody to red cell surfaces) or in the event of prior blood transfusion (ultimately transfused red cells are removed from the immune system). The Coomb's test can be erroneously negative for a number of reasons as well. If the clinical picture fits with IMHA, often the Coomb's test is skipped.
 
 
 
Margaret Diann, Box 233, Valdez, AK 99686 
907-835-3135

Some basic things to check - to find THIS fatigue

not just a virus or cold? *

recognize the harm of EGBE ...  *

Suspect Ethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether for Cancers, too *

11/14/07

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