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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"
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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?" |
Mother-Margaret