Most people do not recognize
the harm of this chemical.
Such as my friend, who is a
baby boomer, too. She said
that her mother worked in a
furniture factory before her
birth, and that she and her
mother and her grandmother
and her son ... have these
horrible worse than a
migrain headaches.
Of course she thinks it is
something hereditary. I
suspect they have been
exposed to the EGBE. At the
age of 13 my friend only
weighed 79 pounds and looked
like a starving African -
but with the bulge on her
left side. She had one
ovary that was only a tumor
& it weighed 9 lbs.
Her dad became a painter and
has died of prostate
cancer. He taught her
brothers the painting
profession, also. One is
just barely hanging on -
horrible fatigue - a shell
of his former self. Her
daughter died of lupus.
Recently her son had an
acute 'diabetes' attack
where blood sugar went to
599 & he almost died. No one
suspects an exposure to
2-butoxyethanol, but I do.
She has burning feet &
bulging discs. She didn't
think the study I did on
this chemical had anything
to do with her or her
family. Same
as this woman who has CFS.
Oh, how I wish she would
caution everyone & that she
would teach each of her
grandchildren: "You came
into life with some
exposures to this chemical -
You will live in better
health if you take
precautions to avoid this
chemical"
Well, we also both have
a friend
who had breast cancer, then 5
recurrences of ovarian cancer,
then gastrointestinal problems
and finally,
she died last year.
I suspect it was this chemical's
harm. She started doing
cleaning in 1988 as a business
... besides the regular
cleaning. I wonder if they
might have found that she had
CFS type symptoms too, and that
there was
blood in urine & red blood cells
that were small-sized?
I suspect there are a lot of
cancers out there that could be
credited to the primary cause of
2-butoxyethanol exposure.
I believe that early on there
would be the fatigue - maybe not
the very first thing. I found
one woman who has lots of energy
but does not sleep at all. So,
maybe she will feel the fatigue
in four months? It started in
June, so it's about time to
check in with her again. In her
case her husband is working in
some facet of the oil business
and is away for 2 weeks and then
comes home. If he is exposed to
this chemical in his work, he
would be breathing it into his
house for his wife to be exposed
to ... upon his return. This is
what is called 2nd hand solvent
exposure.
Such a thing could have happened
to the gulf war vets who
pondered, "Why is it
that our children born before we
were deployed ... and our
spouses ... have come down with
'the gulf war syndrome, too?"
