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Leslie Feldman | April 17, 2007
"There is an issue that is important to look into
to understand what might have caused such deranged
behavior. This will seem strange but when I heard
that Cho's parents were dry cleaners I remembered a
recent study I found during my research on advancing
paternal age and problems in offspring." |
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The Virginia Tech killer was the son of dry
cleaners.
quote:
Tetrachloroethylene exposure and risk of
schizophrenia: offspring of dry cleaners
in a population birth cohort,
preliminary findings.
Department of Epidemiology,
Mailman School of Public Health,
Columbia University,
New York, New York, 10032, USA. mcp20@columbia.edu
Tetrachloroethylene is a solvent used in
dry cleaning with reported neurotoxic
effects. Using proportional hazard
methods, we examined the relationship
between parental occupation as a dry
cleaner and risk for schizophrenia in a
prospective population-based cohort of
88,829 offspring born in Jerusalem from
1964 through 1976, followed from birth
to age 21-33 years. Of 144 offspring
whose parents were dry cleaners, 4
developed schizophrenia. We observed an
increased incidence of schizophrenia in
offspring of parents who were dry
cleaners (RR=3.4, 95% CI, 1.3-9.2,
p=0.01).
Tetrachloroethylene exposure warrants
further investigation as a risk factor
for schizophrenia.
PMID: 17113267 [PubMed - in process]
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Tetrachloroethylene, also known
under its systematic name
tetrachloroethene and as
perchloroethylene,
perchloroethene, perc, and
PCE, is a
chlorocarbon with the formula Cl2C=CCl2.
It is a colourless liquid widely used
for
dry cleaning of fabrics, hence it is
sometimes called "dry-cleaning fluid."
It has a sweet odor detectable by most
people at a concentration of 1 part per
million (1 ppm). Worldwide production
was about 1 megaton in 1985.[1] |
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I have also
noticed that 2-butoxyethanol is used in
dry cleaning and in making of plastics. |
I wonder whether they picked the wrong
chemical in the dry-cleaning?
2-butoxyethanol
is used in dry cleaning business and in the
making of plastics
Mimics true psychiatric
disorder &
more
Direct exposure
looks like flu,
farting, sniffles, diarrhea
I suspect you will find this just as much among
civilians & military with strong CFIDS, CFS, FM
symptoms ... going back to all war periods
especially: WWII, Vietnam, Korean, Gulf Wars,
others
Some MSDS info
The problem becomes ...
who can you compare to who is not at equal risk
for exposure?
NOT dioxin - but the EGBE
that was 'in the mix'
What are the
glycol ethers?
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US Rep Charlie Norwood was a
Vietnam Vet
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This is the list of harm put forward
by the Vietnam Vets. Except for the couple
of things Dioxin (Agent Orange does) ... the
rest of the list of what happened to the
Vietnam vet is the same for WWII vets and
others:
Actually I already excluded the item that
Dioxin would cause ...
and leave what
'the other
chemical does"
Soft tissue sarcomas ...
all of them
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Hodgkin's disease
Porphyria cutanea tarda
Respiratory cancers (lung, larynx, trachea)
Prostate cancer
Multiple myeloma
Hepatobiliary cancers
Nasal/nasopharyngeal cancer
Bone cancer
Female reproductive cancers (breast,
cervical, uterine, ovarian)
Renal cancer
Testicular cancer
Leukemia
Spontaneous abortion
Birth defects
Neonatal/infant death and stillbirths
Low birthweight
Childhood cancer in offspring
Abnormal sperm parameters and infertility
Zero Sperm
Cognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders
Memory Loss
Motor/coordination dysfunction
Peripheral nervous system disorders
Skeptical? @ ALS
Metabolic and digestive disorders (diabetes,
changes in liver enzymes, lipid
abnormalities, ulcers)
Immune system disorders (immune modulation
and autoimmunity)
Circulatory disorders
Respiratory disorders
Skin cancer
Gastrointestinal tumors (stomach cancer,
pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, rectal
cancer) pancreatic
Bladder cancer
Brain tumors
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