I have
wondered about pedicures, manicures & eye make up as being a
possible source of exposure to the 2-butoxyethanol chemical.
... some
miscellaneous thoughts ...
I noticed that there was an outbreak of 'flu-like' symptoms from a CA
pedicure salon. I thought, 'hmm ... the foot bath softened up the
cuticle area, but what are the chemicals that are used after that?'
I believe the suggestion of a seasoned painter to his young
counterpart ... "When you paint your car in my garage, be
very careful. It is the eye membranes and the cuticle areas that are
the strongest points of exposure to the harmful component in paint"
I was thinking about wearing eye make up again not long ago. The eye
liner I could find that was liquid was made in Germany. Only wore it a
couple of times because it made my eyes burn. That's a bad sign, if
you think the way I do. So, I skipped it. Also, other countries can
put this 2-butoxyethylene or diethylene glycol monobutly ether more
strong in products than the USA might.
& Tammy Faye *
I would like to ask Tammy
Faye Bakker Messner *
... known for her
extensive use of mascara & having mascara-smudged image... whether
or not she had CFS? ... or Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction
Syndrome. *
She did come down with one of the cancers *
that
could go with the 2-butoxyethanol overexposure: colon cancer. (she was
diagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery to have a large section of
her colon removed) Jim
Cherry interview
She next
came down with lung cancer & died of that on 7/20/07
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(3-27-07
Larry King interview, they
commented that she was not doing well, now with a 2nd recurrence
of lung cancer in 8 years)
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Then I heard that Jan
Crouch has been cancer free for these past 2 years; however she also
uses, and has for many, many years ... a lot of mascara & other
eye make up. Colon cancer in her case, too in May,
2003 along with low red blood cell anemia (#6); by 9/25/04 she
had gall stones and acute pancreatitis and also 2
lymph nodes showed signs of cancer. ... losing blood from her system
& had been anemic.
A pregnant mom wanted to go to the beauty salon with 'the girls' but
was told she couldn't get in the hot tub because she was 6 months
pregnant ... but that a pedicure would be OK ... I tried to stop her,
but no such luck. Her baby was born 5 weeks early and soon had a
hemangioma (blood tumor birth
defect) show up. There may be no relationship at all. In this mom's
case she had used Accutane for acne as a teen (which has a butylated
inert ingredient) and her husband was a gulf war vet. So those are
most likely the source of some exposures to the n-butyl ethers; but
the pedicure? It didn't help & I'd sure suggest skipping it, if
anyone asked me.
Besides skin hemangiomas - that are visible and benign & should
disappear as the baby grows up, there are others that are invisible:
lymph nodes can have them or even hemangiosarcomas; the spleen and
liver and pancreas can have hemangiomas. There is also such a thing as
hemangiosarcoma on the skin, hemangiomas in nasal bones, on uterus and
on ovaries, lungs .... spine, brain.
On related points:
We also hear about the 'bird flu' that is harmful to humans ... such
as around the duck farms. Hog/swine farms, too? What do duck and hog
farms use to sanitize and stop odors? It wouldn't surprise me if it
was a version of the n-butyl ethers. How often do you see news
articles on the outbreak of 'flu-like' symptoms where those farms are?
Once my son had some spray paint cans that were written in Chinese or
something ... and I said, "If you can't read the warnings, don't
use the product!" Once I got a junk e-mail in which one of the
Asian countries was advertising the use of break fluid that had triple
and quadruple strength concentrations of 2-butoxyethanol (Whoa, that
would do anybody in) ... if they got the mist in their eyes.
Don't
mist or spray products with 2-butoxyethanol!
And be careful what you clean
with, too! *
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