What would be of interest to cardiologists regarding a patient's exposure to glycol ether?

Research says exposure can cause  *  a long list of ailments including:

  • Specific Developmental Abnormalities (MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM)
  • Specific Developmental Abnormalities  (CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM)
  • Nutritional and Gross Metabolic (WEIGHT LOSS OR DECREASED WEIGHT GAIN)
  • Nutritional and Gross Metabolic (CHANGES IN: METABOLIC ACIDOSIS)
  • Tumorigenic  (CARCINOGENIC BY RTECS CRITERIA)
  • Tumorigenic (EQUIVOCAL TUMORIGENIC AGENT BY RTECS CRITERIA)  Source and more

Suspect lipid abnormalities

"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

     Autoimmune metabolic issues:  blood sugars / blood pressure / body temp *

High or low blood pressure, high or low blood sugar and high or low body temp

'Part of what 2-butoxyethanol does'

Chart

Recent exposure to 2-butoxyethanol or a glycol ether with BUTYL shows a spike in body temperature, spike in blood sugar, spike in blood pressure - over a longer period of time (further away from acute exposures - FLU), you see subnormal body temp, low blood sugar, low BP (Autoimmune hypothalamus issues?)

Obesity Epidemic   Overweight? Maybe more than Diet & Exercise? *

    spikes RBCs?    *
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.
 
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.
       (Coomb's test is unreliable Skip it)
 
Look for 'the fatigue' & an assortment of issues

What kind of things are autoimmune? *

Find THE Fatigue of CFIDS, CFS, FM  *  unknown fatigue? *

Look for the fatigue pattern of AIHA
& for the autoimmune CNS pattern

What are the symptoms of hemolytic anemia?

Consider exposure to glycol ether for the cause of FLU

Share about the harm of glycol ethers  * 

Does FDR's cousin Daisy's Journal talk about a time when the 32nd President of the USA had 'flu-like' symptoms? 

It is now suspected that Pres FDR didn't have polio, but

Please be aware that doctors have come down with CFIDS, too, when examining many patients with exposure to glycol ether / Be aware of 'second hand solvent exposure'
 

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