Exposure
to products with 2-butoxyethanol
There were approximately 1000
'bioremediation workers' in the
Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup.
If they had had a Material
Safety Data Sheet on the
experimental chemicals used
then, many of them would have
'walked off' With the strong
use of this chemical in Inipol
EAP 22 &
others
of 1989 and the
excessive
exposure, and the
inadequate
personal
protective gear, not
a one of these workers would
have a chance of escaping the
health damage: those that
worked say, 6 weeks in 1989
(Aug-Sept) ... that alone was
enough to cause the
overexposure... but some would
have worked the summer of 1990,
too. It might not take that
much time exposure to affect
your health... we might be
talking a lot longer than one
month after exposures.
Sometimes, as they say, the
damage lasts. First thing that
happens with 2-butoxyethanol
over exposure is blood damage
Check for
hemolytic anemia.
Blood damage: in the
case of
2-butoxyehanol it is
hemolytic anemia (Crude
oil's
benzene blood damage
is aplastic anemia) What
are they looking for in the
blood work the doctors do with
Isotretinoin - Accutane?
One comment was maybe there
could be a low white blood
cell count. Goodness that
might make it hard for your body
to fight disease. What else
might it mean? Benzene is known
to cause leukemia. What have
those who took Accutane been
coming down with? Maybe the
drug companies don't really want
to know... If you come forward
and share... (with an
independent entity) you can
help take this drug off the
market & spare others health
damage. If you've already
reported it to the manufacturer
or to the FDA report it again to
someone else.
Skin Damage... sounds the
same; 2-butoxyethanol defats
the skin. One man mentioned his
ears couldn't be in the sun, the
skin would crack; massive nose
bleeding that won't stop, from
thin membranes; rash in the
lining of the stomach (Stomach
cancer a few years later
occurred in a man who only
transported the chemicals.. he
said some spilled in his boat.
He is now at death's door with
recurring stomach cancer and
melanoma)
Central Nervous System
Damage: difficulty
concentrating, extreme
irritability, clinic depression
constantly, suicidal tendencies.
(Once you have damaged the
Central Nervous System, it is
said to be permanent. Can you
imagine living your whole life
being clinically depressed
*
every day, no matter what? Can
you imagine how hard it would be
to have good interpersonal
relationships & maintain a good
marriage... be a good parent to
your children? Get an
education? Keep a job?)
Dark urine: that is
blood in the urine
representative of kidney
damage... checking kidney and
liver function levels for the
rest of your life will now be
necessary. This is one of the
admonitions the workers with
Inipol EAP 22 are faced
with (Those who spray paint
cars or work with
2-butoxyethanol exposures from
other sources, too) Problem is,
most of them don't know it &
will be close to kidney failure
before they know it.
Reproductive damage in
men as well as women. Some will
not be able to have children.
If they do, they could be born
deformed. The next generation
could be affected, too.
A few years out, check for
things like stomach cancer,
melanoma, chronic lymphocytic
leukemia, bone cancer, liver
cancer, lymph related cancers...
(They don't tell you this,
because they say it hasn't been
tested for in humans.)
Most doctors are unfamiliar with
chemical causes of such health
damage as here described. Even
the workers don't understand
they need to avoid chemicals...
don't drink... don't take any
chemicals; taking an
anti-depressant for Central
Nervous System damage will not
help... likely it will hurt.
These need to learn a life-style
of avoiding all chemicals.