hello, thank you for writing me back. correct link was:  http://www.valdezlink.com/gwv/symptoms.htm#daughter  I was really interested in all you wrote. first of all thank you for getting back to me, you are a Godsend, my brother has started the meds. he takes them twice a week, no side effects yet, i have never heard of what you were talking about but as looking through what you sent and visiting the web sites have made my eyes come open, but couldn't that cook have been exposed to tb?  I know you have to have a tb tine test to work in places like that but still couldn't you come in contact?  still my brother has shared the information with the doctor they say he has the germ and has to take those meds. for nine mos.  He is not too happy about that but you know how that goes, he is not contagious he is around all the people. yes my brother has painted in his life several years matter of fact and my brother's personality can change on you in a second, especially if he has drunk some beer, but i noticed through the years if he don't have a beer, he is real depressed and quiet, but if he gets a beer or two he changes on you just like that.  For the last 3 years he has been doing a lot of outdoor work cutting grass and all.  Are you saying my brother may not have tb germ even though he had a positive reaction to it?  is that your phone number too where i can contact you and talk with you? if it is, thank you so much. i would love to talk with you more on this matter. i am really interested.  all i know it measured a 13, and it means he has the tb germ, he was exposed to someone recently.  my brother is always fighting and getting in trouble that way and going to jail, all he does is fight.  every time he has been confined they have done a tb tine test and it has always come back negative even the one they did on him when he was locked up last year, this was the first.  thank you so much for your advice I learned a lot today from you and it has helped. hope to hear back from you.
I don't know anything about TB

However, I do know a lot about the harmful component of most latex paints & many cleanup products ... and I do suspect your brother has been poisoned by 2-butoxyethanol or one of its 'versions'  This chemical has been harming our country & other nations most likely too, since it was invented.  Being quiet ... being depressed, with the 'turn on you in a second personality changes ... that would be part of the pattern.  I believe he would do well not to drink, because this type of 'self medicating' adds to one's harm:  ethanol is one of the components of 2-butoxyethanol ... and it is in beer, in Joy, in Dawn.  Compared to other things it's not so bad, but added to the chemical load one has already, it is a very bad idea.

I do think your brother has help in he were to take glyconutrients.  It seems to help one's immune system work as it should & stop attacking the central nervous system, the joints, the red blood cells.  They are finding amazing results in the trials I've heard about:  diabetes, lupus, cerebral palsy & one starting up in scleroderma.  Study Contact  for SCLERODERMA PILOT STUDY

I suspect that some people's chronic overweight is not their fault.  I suspect that your brother's fighting with others may not be his fault, as much as the court thinks.  Ask them to see if he has blood in urine, and if his red blood cells are small sized and predominately immature. (The 'retic rate may or may not say something; but just the blood counts? ... not enough)  I don't know what meds they give someone for TB, but if someone is chemically poisoned, the best advice they can have is to diminish all other chemical exposures.  He might worsen his condition when he drinks, with some medications ... I don't know.  Surely the benefits have to outweigh the risks; and with TB, he would need to follow the doctors' orders.

Now, I don't have any medical background.  I am just saying that I recognize 'the pattern of harm of 2-butoxyethanol.'  The research on this chemical is done.  This is the best I've found - a doctor can go to the original site and get more specific input.  Any doctor that becomes interested in this chemical and learns a little about it ... will make the world a better place.  One doctor recently said he was fascinated by what I was sharing & asked for suggestions on what products to be careful with.  This is my reply and some other thoughts:

to approach it from what someone thinks an exposure would be... would be very difficult, as there are many more exposures than we could easily identify, and then someone could just be around someone else who is breathing out the vapors ... and get exposed.  One lady said, all I did was go to the dentist's office ... and then she listed the 'gulf war syndrome' symptoms. (Or you could go to the barber shop, the chiropractor's office, or the tax office in 1989-1990 in Valdez, Alaska - Lots of 2nd hand solvent exposure here in those days.)  

I believe CFS, FM or actually CFIDS to be what this 2-butoxyethanol causes. valdezlink.com/cfid_share.htm

 
This lady describes what a reaction to exposure looks like: Daughter: 

"Yes, I remember all to well when my eyes started burning like there was hot pokers in them. It coincided with a VERY nasty stomach bug...vomiting, the runs...it was miserable. The day I got sick I had been rolling around in a very nasty store cleaning up the mess. (box account in Sugar Land, TX) That night I was so sick...took me 2 days to get the energy up to drag myself to the doctor's office & threw up all over it for him to tell me I had the flu."
Her mother shared with me last year that the military hospital had no idea what was wrong with her and that her kidneys were failing.  At 33 years, she was expected to die.

 

Maybe ask people to describe whether or not they had a lasting fatigue after any of these:  circle ones that apply: valdezlink.com/pages/howcomplain.htm
 
Maybe some questionaire along these lines:
Do you have several of these health ailments:
  • A Give you doctor the Big Picture
  • B Any of these health concerns?
  • C Similar list, just restated
  • D  Suspected  'pattern of harm'
  • E
For singular health issues you might have to see if a parent had these symptoms ... and then you would not have the fatigue per se ... but a singular item, more like a late to show up birth defect.
 
I'll think on this.
 
You can check for blood in urine
Size, shape of red blood cells & age
Over active immune system ...
 

Let your patient explain his/her own symptoms to you.

 

Ask about headaches

Ask about the 'loosing temper quickly'

Ask about the fatigue  - how he used to be able to work, vs now

Remember a time when urine turned dark or even black _____; Then flu-like symptoms ___ and HORRIBLE FATIGUE? ____

Ask about vision (can become 'legally blind') Holes in eye tissue?

(DO NOT MIST) The worst exposure to this chemical –

Remember a time when your eyes burned like hot pokers were in them

Ask about Rapid heart rate, and the size of heart chambers - any enlarged glands

Ask about rapid weight loss (check liver?)

Ask about blood in urine in recent years –

 

 'Have you had times when you feel like you need to urinate, but nothing happens?' (check kidney/adrenals?) Do you have back pain in area of kidneys?

Ask about skin damage ___  Any 'defatted' skin?

Any sinus or lung problems?

Difficulty sleeping at night?

Depression, difficulty concentrating, short-term memory loss?

Any suicidal tendencies?

...Had temperature that is high or low for no reason?

Seizures ____ ,  Collapsing _____

Joint pain

 

Ask if there have been any irregularities with any of the endocrine glands:

Thyroid___, Pituitary ___, Hypothalamus ___, Growth Irregularities ____,   Pancreas: Insulin ___, Blood sugar ___, Digestive Juices _____,

Blood Pressure:  High ___,  Low ___ . Adrenal Glands: ____, Hormones off ____

Immune system out of whack, 'Catch everything that is going around & you stay ill longer? ____ Gall Bladder Affected _____, Any reproductive harm? ____ damage to testes – burning semen ____

Bouts with paralysis

Grande Mal Seizures

Any swollen, ulcerated organs:

Gall bladder ___

Spleen ___

Pancreas ___

Testes ___

Heart ___ 

These ___ Other ____

Do your bones hurt? ____   valdezlink.com/paralysis .htm

 

 

Any of these symptoms of hemolytic anemia  *
 Chills 
Fatigue 
Pale color 
Shortness of breath 
Rapid heart rate 
Yellow skin color (jaundice) 
Dark urine (indicative of blood in urine - never dismiss this! Stop exposure immediately!)
Enlarged spleen

If too many immature red blood cells , other tests may be off

 

This chemical also causes: 

Narcosis 
Damage to the kidney 
Damage to the liver 
Present an abnormal blood picture showing: Erythropenia 
Present an abnormal blood picture showing: Reticulocytosis 
Present an abnormal blood picture showing: Granulocytosis 
Present an abnormal blood picture showing: Leukocytosis 
Likely to Cause Fragility of Erythrocytes 
Likely to Cause Hematuria 

 

  • from Hemat = blood and 
  • uria = of urine 

·          Hematuria simply means blood in the urine

Causes Central Nervous System (CNS) DEPRESSION   *

Difficulty concentrating

Short term memory loss

Very irritable 'fly off the handle all the time over nothing'

Difficulty sleeping

Suicidal Tendencies

Central Nervous System DEPRESSION

 


Loss of taste 
Headaches and Stupor. 

Causes skin irritation. 
Causes severe eye irritation - damage to tissue possible 
Irritating to mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract

 

 

2-butoxyethanol  and

CHRONIC EFFECTS - TARGET ORGANS

  • Sense Organs & Special Senses (OTHER OLFACTION EFFECTS)
  • Sense Organs & Special Senses  (OTHER EYE EFFECTS)
  • Behavioral   (GENERAL ANESTHETIC)
  • Behavioral   (ALTERED SLEEP TIME)
  • Behavioral   (SOMNOLENCE)
  • Behavioral   (EXCITEMENT)
  • Behavioral   (ATAXIA)
  • Behavioral   (COMA)
  • Behavioral   (ANALGESIA) LUNGS, THORAX OR RESPIRATION (DYSPNAE)
  • LUNGS, THORAX OR RESPIRATION (OTHER CHANGES)
  • Gastrointestinal  (NAUSEA OR VOMITING)
  • Gastrointestinal  (OTHER CHANGES)
  • LIVER (TUMORS)
  • KIDNEY, URETER, BLADDER (HEMATURIA)
  • KIDNEY, URETER, BLADDER (OTHER CHANGES)
  • Endocrine (Tumors)
  • Skin and Appendages (Hair) 
  • Maternal Effects  (UTERUS, CERVIX, VAGINA)
  • Maternal Effects  (OTHER EFFECTS ON FEMALE)
  • Effects on Fertility (PRE-IMPLANTATION MORTALITY)
  • Effects on Fertility (POST-IMPLANTATION MORTALITY)
  • Effects on Fertility (LITTER SIZE)
  • Specific Developmental Abnormalities (MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM)
  • Specific Developmental Abnormalities  (CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM)
  • Nutritional and Gross Metabolic (WEIGHT LOSS OR DECREASED WEIGHT GAIN)
  • Nutritional and Gross Metabolic (CHANGES IN: METABOLIC ACIDOSIS)
  • Tumorigenic  (CARCINOGENIC BY RTECS CRITERIA)
  • Tumorigenic (EQUIVOCAL TUMORIGENIC AGENT BY RTECS CRITERIA) 
  • SOURCE of this info - back up copy

Some research - check here

I saw the list of harm to Vietnam Vets

Chronic Overweight? *  Maybe more than Diet & Exercise?

Maybe an Autoimmune Metabolic Problem ...

 from a chemical exposure

 C6H14O2/CH3(CH2)2CH2OCH2CH2OH 

           Poison!

2-butoxyethanol MSDS info

What does it do?  Causes eye irritation. Affects Central Nervous System, Blood and Blood-forming Organs;  Kidneys, Liver & Lymphoid System  Defats the skin

EFFECTS OF SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE: 
The substance irritates the eyes, the skin, and the respiratory tract

Exposure could cause central nervous system depression and liver and kidney damage.

 

EFFECTS OF LONG-TERM OR REPEATED EXPOSURE:
The liquid defats the skin.  

The substance may have effects on the haematopoietic system , resulting in blood disorders.

 

Medical Surveillance:

Consider the points of attack (liver, kidneys, lymphoid system, skin, blood, eyes, respiratory system) in placement and periodic physical examinations.
[Sittig, M. Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and Carcinogens, 1985. 2nd ed. Park Ridge, NJ: Noyes Data Corporation, 1985. 155]**PEER REVIEWED**

2-Butoxyethanol causes acute hemolytic anemia in rats

In F344 male rats, 2-butoxyethanol causes severe acute hemolytic anemia resulting in significant increase in the concentration of free plasma hemoglobin. Secondary to the hemolytic effects, 2-butoxyethanol also caused hemoglobinuria as well as histopathologic changes in the liver and kidney.

*Notes to Physician: Administration of Sodium bicarbonate may be of value to treat acidosis. 

Monitor kidney and liver function and arterial blood gases closely.

 

2-Butoxyethanol is Butyl Cellosolve 

(trademark of Union Carbide/Dow Chemical)


diethylene glycol monobutyl ether is Butyl Carbitol (Trademark of ")

Will Martha Stewart Stay Healthy in the Pen?
www.simplegreen.com/pdfs/04_gsa_msds_simple_green_&_pad.pdf

The reason I ask is that if she has to clean ... she will have to use Simple Green, most likely. Note that unless Simple Green is diluted 30 times ... like a 2 oz capful in a half gallon of water, she could be at health risk for 2-butoxyethanol over exposure. Which, from what I'm learning is like getting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, CFIDS, or the 'gulf war syndrome' for civilians

Doesn't it say that US Prisoners are required by their Prison to use Simple Green as the cleaner of choice? ... so who knows?

I've gotten feedback from a couple of people who seem to have had a bad experience 

So is full strength use as also non-toxic and safe for health? 
For sure they should warn against misting it! 

Paint companies have had some disclosure problems? I looked into it (when a year ago I was surprised by bold warnings that paint contained ethylene glycol and it caused kidney problems.) I asked the company I whose paint I was checking (as my husband had a bad reaction June, 2003 & then there were no ingredients disclosed) ... I asked them which ethylene glycol? Their, reply, "We are not telling you!"

This man had a bad experience www.valdezlink.com/sg_audrey.htm  

Said a hospital chaplain, "I've used Simple Green for years; but I've noticed in the last couple of years that I have eyes watering and respiratory concerns" 

Dee and Randy... could they have been harmed by Simple Green? 

Let's check the prison population who do a lot of cleaning with Simple Green! Only check them for the RIGHT things www.valdezlink.com/psa.htm

Besides NO ENERGY and continual ANGER outbursts ... what else does ethylene glycol monobutyl ether do?

I'm concerned for our military and National Leaders, too

#2

So, what are some synonymns? *

C6H14O2/CH3(CH2)2CH2OCH2CH2OH 

CAS number 00111-76-2 

2-butoxyethanol 


Synonyms:  

2-butoxy-1-ethanol; 

2-Butoxy ethanol; 

2-BUTOXY ETHANOL 

(ETHYLENE GLYCOL MONOBUTYL ETHER); 

o-butyl ethylene glycol; 

2-n-Butoxy-1-ethanol; 

2-n-Butoxyethanol; 

3-oxa-1-heptanol; 

Beta-butoxyethanol; 

BUCS; butoxyethanol; 

Butyl cellosolve  - Dow Chemical's Trade Name

butyl glycol; 

Butyl oxitol; 

Dowanol EB; 

Ektasolve EB; 

Ektasolve EB solvent; 

Ethylene glycol butyl ether; 

Ethylene glycol mono butyl ether; 

Ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EGBE) (2-Butoxyet ; 

Ethylene Glycol Mono-n-butyl Ether; 

Ethylene glycol n-butyl ether; 

gafcol eb; 

glycol butyl ether; 

glycol ether eb; 

glycol ether eb acetate; 

Jeffersol EB; 

monobutyl ether of ethylene glycol; 

monobutyl glycol ether; 

n-butoxyethanol; 

n-Butyl Cellosolve; 

poly-solv eb

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Protect Yourself From Future Harm - Learn what Products YOU use that contain it

Check for what products contain 2-butoxyethanol
(CAS Registry Number: 000111-76-2)
in the Household Products Data Base
http://hpd.nlm.nih.gov/ingredients.htm

5% concentration is not safe for home use, per one expert in product development.

Also check for the complex version Diethylene glycol monobutyl ether or 2-2-butoxyethanol

(CAS Registry Number: 000112-34-5)

More MSDS info

Is there help?  Consider Glyconutrients

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