Suzie
... I never heard of HELLP syndrome ... so I looked it up
Sounds like it is very
prevalent in 10% of those pregnant
HELLP syndrome
is a life-threatening complication of pre-eclampsia.
Both conditions occur during the latter stages of pregnancy,
or sometimes after childbirth.
HELLP is an abbreviation of the
main findings:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HELLP_syndrome
Is the Low Platelet
count from something autoimmune? .... like:
ITP is the
destruction of "thrombocytes" (clotting
cells) by the immune system in much the same manner as
RBCs are destroyed in AIHA
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Clinical signs of this
disease include bruising; excessive bleeding following
trauma, at surgery, or during estrus; or blood
in the urine or stool.
Before ITP can be
diagnosed, many more common diseases must be ruled
out. These include, but are not limited to, warfarin
poisoning, various clotting disorders (hemophilia, Von
Willebrand's disease), bladder or prostate infection
or cancer, and intestinal parasites. A CBC, platelet
count, and clotting profile are needed. A bone marrow
biopsy is helpful as well, and a Coomb's test may be
run if other autoimmune diseases are suspected.
Transfusion of fresh
whole blood or of platelet-rich plasma can be helpful
in ITP Source
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The primary thing that 2-butoxyethanol causes
is hemolytic
anemia: I suspect autoimmune hemoltyic
anemia.
If you looked at what the
possible exposures to this chemical might be (for you, for
your husband, for your sets of parent) ... you might very well
find exposure to this chemical.
There must be something
hormonal that triggers this ... certainly there are hormonal
abnormalities (high or low) with exposure to
2-butoxyethanol... and in pregnancy.
A person could have no
background of exposure to this chemical as it is very easy to
get exposed ... seriously exposed today. However, it is
also very probably that many of us have a parent or grand
parent that was poisoned by it during military service (though
not recognized) ... or in the industry that was going on then
& now.
I wish every mom would
take glyconutrients along
with the good nutrition they are encouraged. It seems to
help the immune system function properly ... and we are in
desperate need of that
Remove the exposure,
though, and you can go back to normal ... hemolytic anemia can
appear and then disappear. One gulf war vet shared such
... & if he had known what chemical to avoid, he might
very well have lived a normal life. This is his post that I
found & saved before it was to be deleted: Body
Destroying Red Blood Cells
Some people want to attribute radiation exposure to
birth defects, autoimmune issues ...
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What does radiation do all by
itself?
Without any exposure to other
weapons of war or industry ... such as
2-butoxyethanol?
You'd be hard pressed to find
such people ... certainly not at the end of WWII
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