Experience with Simple Green

Audrey wrote:

I found a website with your address regarding Simple Green and
Butoxyethanol. My husband had a chemical exposure in 2000.

He was using Simple Green off and on for about 45 minutes.

He started feeling real sick.

This was also not a ventilated area. The owner of the company did not provide the "correct" bottle per the manufacturers of Simple Green. He was using a misting bottle (?)

Anyways, he developed Reactive Airway Dysfunction Syndrome.

That would have been easy enough to deal with except that he later developed Multiple Chemical Sensitivities then paralysis. We do not know where the paralysis come from. They are not a symptom of these other two disorders. After doing more research on this chemical, I found your information and the study showing paralysis in primates and rats. Do you have more information that might be helpful? My husband's doctors are not sure what is wrong with him. He goes into paralyzing attacks that can last 4-5 hours and effect his entire body or just last minutes with it being a single body part. It can happen any day, any time, no matter what he is doing. He can be sleeping, driving, bathing, etc. This has consumed our lives.

I am just looking for anyone who might have information.

Thanks.
Audrey K - letter restated

Reply - Subject: Simple Green

Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003

I remember one of those in charge of chemicals to be used in the Exxon
Valdez Oil Spill cleanup gave me an ingredient of Simple Green that was not
easily findable, but I'll have to ask him for it again.

This is other information that was shared with me, though.
http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/solvents.htm

2-butoxyethanol is bad enough all by itself & does have a wide range of
symptoms that stump the doctors.

Ask your doctor to order the specialty testing for chemicals from

ACCU-Chem labs & to consult with Dr. Rea or Dr. Crinnion

There may be a way of flushing out this poison & helping your husband regain
his health.

Share more information with your doctor about this chemical

Please keep me posted. or
e-mail

What other kinds of work has your husband done in the past? any car
painting, dry cleaning, plastics business? Maybe this was 'the final straw'
from other buildups of 2-butoxyethanol.

Margaret Diann PO Box 233, Valdez, Alaska 99686 1-888-853-5333

PS

Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2003 7:54 AM

Subject: misting bottle was worse thing to use

I must share, Audrey, that it is my personal opinion that misting of the
product would be the worst exposure possible.

Note this MSDS on 2-butoxyethanol

warns against misting of

2-buotxyethanol *

What you will notice

I believe that besides the skin and inhalation being the primary entry of
2-butoxyethanol chemical into one's system, it is the eyes and the
cuticles... such as was shared by a seasoned auto painter.

So, the fumes or vapors were going into your husbands system much more
quickly if he was around these vapors

I would also have his eyes checked with the dilating drops and a specialist
in eye care. One lady reported 80% loss of vision & said that she had holes
in her retina... She recently had her spleen and pancreas removed and is
awaiting a transplant. She first noticed her chemical overexposure by mouth
ulcers... after taking care of an aborted baby seal that came into the
Seward animal care unit in August, 1989 www.valdezlink.com/eyes.htm

What was shared with me recently is that some chemicals actually cause
something called endocrine disruption. It is not just one thing going
wrong, like diabetes or something, but the immune system and the glandular
systems are not functioning properly.

Although the doctors are not yet finding it, hemolytic anemia is about the
first thing that happens with 2-butoxyethanol, and it lasts:

www.valdezlink.com/just.htm

So, maybe checking the blood will be a help to you, too
www.valdezlink.com/men.htm You don't want just a couple of items checked &
to be written off as OK because you fall into the 'borderline' normal range
.... when in fact, it is the identifying mark of 2-butoxyethanol over exposure;

It may not even take much exposure to cause this health damage, either.

www.valdezlink.com/opinion.htm

Sincerely,

What do you think about this long list?
http://www.valdezlink.com/2_butoxyethanol_in_these.htm

I've made a study web page out of the info someone sent to me - "Thanks to another Helper!"

I'm asking permission to post.

I wonder why some don't tell the percentage of 2-butoxyethanol? Like
Jobmaster... ?

http://www.valdezlink.com/experience_with_simple_green.htm

Audrey,

May I have permission to share your experience in an anonymous fashion?

I believe that unless those harmed by 2-butoxyethanol share their story,

it will keep happening to others

I don't understand what you mean by not using the right bottle

per instructions? Using a misting bottle instead of _________ ?

It occurs to me that the paralysis is some type of central nervous system dysfunction...

It also occurs to me that it is possible your husband has had more exposures to such chemical, or other chemicals, in general.

When one's body has had all the chemical exposures it can handle,

the chemical effects are more severe.

Even prescribed medications can add to one's toxic overload, per report of one woman so affected - when reevaluated at Mayo Clinic. I would most certainly study what is being suggested and make your own decision on whether you will take medications.

Skip the unnecessary or trial ones.

There is also concern for liver and kidney function with 2-butoxyethanol in particular.

So... that is another reason to limit even prescription drugs.

Some of these are making less and less blood over time,

and when they get dizzy, & start collapsing (from lack of blood?)

the doctors prescribe blood thinner.

Doesn't make any sense to me,

but then I'm not a doctor.

http://www.valdezlink.com/inipol/pages/chemicals_avoid.htm

Eating right may help more than anything else. Other helps

Margaret Diann