Right now a hospital lab is trying to determine why anemia for my friend

Right now a hospital lab is trying to determine why anemia for my friend, Norma 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.

Compare EVOS Robin to Gulf War Vet Donny

http://www.valdezlink.com /pages/checklistcfids.htm copy p. 1 only ... then ...

http://groups.msn.com/ValdezRen tals/idiopathicanemia.msnw

Cont ... p 2

____ Fragility of RBC membranes?

_{___ Hormonal imbalances (high or low)
Blood sugar high or low}

_{___ Change in body temperature}_{(high
or low)}

_{___ Blood pressure abnormalities}_{(high or low)}

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

'Part
of what 2-butoxyethanol does'}

Check kidneys as they send a hormone to bone marrow to make red blood cells and kidneys help make strong bones, too

www.valdezlink.com/rbc_size _shape.htm

____ Low platelets - ITP Can be another autoimmune issue

after RBC autoimmune issue/s

____ Iron You need iron to make red blood cells

_{_____ Horrible Headaches *
& other things in CFIDS,
CFS}

and it is an AUTOIMMUNE issue

a doctor shares with doctors -

Why glyconutrients help an autoimmune system

www.valdezlink.com/pages /newnutritionparadigm.htm

Caused by exposure to EGBE ... even before one's birth

Sort of a civilian 'gulf war syndrome'

aka CFIDS, CFS, FM, ME

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

www.valdezlink.com/pages /jaundiceandfatigue.htm

2 pages only ... ending with :

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.

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.

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.

2-butoxyethanol

Some Observations shared with doctors

Margaret Diann, Box 233, Valdez, AK 99686

907-835-3135

Some basic things to check - to find THIS fatigue

Janitorial Studies on EGBE & its complex form

More 2-butoxyethanol MSDS info

NJ Hazardous Substance Fact Sheet 2-BUTOXY ETHANOL pdf

World Health Organization says to suspect these chemicals for brain tumors

not just a virus or cold? *

recognize the harm of EGBE ... *

Suspect Ethylene Glycol Monobutyl Ether for Cancers, too *