Question on hair loss

It can be an autoimmune issue that 2-butoxyethanol exposure could cause:

http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/autoimmune.htm

Baldness - Hair loss The Thymus is a regulator of the immune system. Many specialists believe that baldness is an autoimmune disease - a balding person's own blood cells are recognizing hair as foreign proteins...
Hearing Loss Meniere's disease  *

The most prevalent cause of autoimmune issues is exposure to 2-butoxyethanol

It is easy to be exposed. It is too strong in our home cleaning products & non disclosed
It is in paint & products that home builders and mechanics use ... in paint, etc
You can have some exposure prior to conception as it is a teratogen chemical and a parent poisoned can cause autoimmune issues for their child

and you can be exposed 2nd hand by being around someone else who is over exposed (chemical can be in their respiration and get into your eyes 

Second Hand Solvent Exposure *  second hand


My thoughts here
http://www.valdezlink.com/re/medh/weakness-reply.htm

"Body weakness" - medhelp.org/posts/show/922978
I am an engineer and working in automobile sector.  Have had this shortness of breath & body weakness even as a child   more input

Weakness may be blood anemia - AND

What you are sharing reminds me of autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) or Immune Mediated Hemolytic Anemia IMHA that 2-butoxyethanol would cause. Exposure looks like 'the flu' but it can be a lesser exposure and that looks like 'the sniffles' sinus congestion, a cold, digestion issues or farting and diarrhea

One gulf war vet was trying out for another job some months back, and he used up the available oxygen in red blood cells and couldn't replace it fast enough. He had shortness of breath and died
 http://www.valdezlink.com/gwv/diesafterworkout2.htm#is

Do you also notice shortness of breath and also memory loss?

This anemia is very hard to diagnose.
I write web pages on this topic, but have been asked NOT to share on the public forum as they are interested in promoting medications, from what I understand ... or at least those who moderate the forum

Ask doctors to have the lab tech LOOK at the red blood cells and some of these things:
http://www.valdezlink.com/pages/bodytemp.htm
(Look for the fatigue of CFIDS, CFS, FM) *  *  *

I think too much exposure becomes one of these 

Compare 2-butoxyethanol to meds
http://www.valdezlink.com/re/drugs/list.htm

Something here may be of help
http://www.valdezlink.com/re/help/rituxan.htm

http://www.valdezlink.com/re/health/help.htm

Be careful what you clean with - Exposure to Glycol BUTYL Ethers

can cause serious harm to babies, pets, you!

  No Disclosure of any ingredients;

yet serious use of product on a written MSDS you can get in 10 days by mail ... which however, are not on the container.

Request full disclosure

2-butoxyethanol is NOT without research *

EPA - CA Janitorial Study  *    Avoid BUTYL *

NJ Hazardous Chemical Fact sheet on 2-butoxyethanol

This was really a surprise:
VERY HIGH White Blood Cell Counts (advanced anemia) *
 
LEUKEMOID REACTION in AIHA or IMHA 
    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.

rapid heartbeat,
'the chills'
shortness of breath

Check Blood Sugar, Body Temp, BP  *

Track your own blood counts -   Women    Men
I have heard from two workers of the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup during 1989 in Valdez (Sandy & Richard  * ) who have spectacularly high white blood cells (& abnormal body temp, blood pressure, blood sugar) and they are having multiple operations for degenerative discs.  The anemia 2-butoxyethanol in the cleanup chemical would cause:  autoimmune hemolytic anemia and they were testing those who worked directly with them (1000 young men who had the 'bioremediation' job) ... for blood in urine, and for some they took blood samples.

Health Checklist  -  Give your Doctor more info  -  CFIDS Health Handout 

Exposure looks like 'the flu'  *

What alternate help? *

 

and THIS ASSORTMENT of ailments

Pres FDR *

Be Careful what you clean with  *

Look up the chemical formula of any medications before you take them  *

I have no medical background - Ask your doctor & be involved in your healthcare decisions

 

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4-14-09