The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill - 1989 Chemicals 

Most especially 2-butoxyethanol - Affects Many!  *

Helps for Medical Doctors

E V O S  Photo Story - Summation

 

  

Some Research

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Requesting Help from Medical Doctors

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Medical Doctors can order the Same Tests

that Doctors who are Experts in Chemical Exposures Can

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Exposed say blood pressure goes up - Metabolism changes - Worker says Prozac does no good for CNS depression (over one year of taking it)

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What are symptoms of too much exposure to chemicals?

Chemical Overexposure = Chemical Poisoning

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What Can Happen to People Exposed to 2-butoxyethanol?

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Acquired hemolytic anemia should happen first, and underlie all subsequent ramifications?  Must check more than the usual to find it:  Reticulocyte Count?  Ask a lab tech to comment on the red blood cells

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Some Questions - & What we are learning

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Worker Groups at Risk?

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Questions  ... 

What Health Changes Seem to Occur with this Group?

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Emphasize Good  Nutrition -

That Patients must Eat Right

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Other Helps

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Contact with Those who are Experts in Chemical Poisoning

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Lab Resource - Very accurate - Do you know others?

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When all else fails, try whole food & a new lifestyle

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2-butoxyethanol MSDS -  4-93 pdf

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What kind of anemia? 

Aplastic from benzene?  &/or Acquired Autoimmune Hemolytic from 2-butoxyethanol?

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  • Chills  
  • Fatigue
  • Pale color
  • Shortness of breath
  • Rapid heart rate
  • Yellow skin color (jaundice)
  • Dark urine
  • Enlarged spleen

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Chart - Many can be harmed by 2-butoxyethanol

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When blood counts indicated a transfusion was needed, this worker shared that whole blood, instead of filtered blood, helped him the most! 

(for weeks instead of days)

One person shared that when given a transfusion of whole blood he was helped much more than when given filtered or partial blood transfusions

Note:   Reproductive & birth defects possible with parents exposed to 2-butoxyethanol

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 - There's too much 2-butoxyethanol 

in lots of products

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In the 1960's a woman was given a goat's stomach transplant for her stomach cancer.  

She lived to be 78 years - until 2002!  

Wonder why that worked so well for her?

... or with the numerous 'stomach reduction' surgeries, maybe the 'excess' could be utilized?  

One woman with stomach cancer was helped by having a goat's stomach transplant

How will you be able to tell if 2-butoxyethanol family of chemicals has hurt your patient?  Are the scientific studies skewed?

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Solvent Studies  

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2003 msds - what 2-BE does - check blood first

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How to help a Exxon Valdez oil spill worker, 

a Gulf War Syndrome Vet 

& today's military, too

& possibly 'that hard-to-figure-out case'

What someone looks like who has been exposed to too much 2-butoxyethanol type chemicals

Why autoimmune hemolytic anemia FATIGUE doesn't show up as doctors expect - except in EXTREME cases  

10-21-04

             Do you think this is all-in-their-heads ? *
    Autoimmune FATIGUE?    Medical Clues to 2-BE harm  
*   10-2-05 

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Workers Share

 

Start Teaching Medical Students 

about the Effects of Chemicals on the Human Body

and especially THIS chemical

 

 

 

The most damaging chemical used in quantity: 

 C6H14O2/CH3(CH2)2CH2OCH2CH2OH   Poison!   MSDS

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