questionnaire - Do you have enough fatigue and nervous system symptoms to suspect 2-butoxyethanol poisoning?

Do you have enough signs to suspect exposure to EGBE? Thankfully not everyone gets everything it can do; but is there enough in the fatigue and CNS signs to suspect it?

Questionnaire

Have you had some exposure to a very commonly used

cleaning/degreaser chemical? *

Circle those that apply:

Remember flu-like symptoms? ___ then horrible fatigue? WHEN?

Diarrhea? ______

Diagnosed - blood in urine? _____ When?

Eyes burning and hurting?

Fatigue signs:

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!)
Red blood cells small sized (or with severe exposure early on - are they ragged & beat up?)
Retic rate at 2.5 days later - very elevated
Enlarged spleen *
"HEART ATTACK' or advanced fatigue?
Bones Hurt? extramedullary hematopoiesis?
Paralysis?
Seizures?
Overfunctioning, under effective immune system? *
Easily become ill - pneumonia, too?
Bacteria in urine? ____ in blood? ____

These are symptoms of hemolytic anemia - what this chemical is said to cause. (Suspect autoimmune hemolytic anemia)

Also - any blood in urine?
Red blood cells immature or small sized?
Size/shape of red blood cells?

Loose your temper easily?

Central Nervous System * damage

(partial list of clues for this)

Short term memory loss
Difficulty concentrating
Personality changes to 'grumpy' - Extreme Irritability
All the time Depression
Suicidal Tendencies
Difficulty Sleeping
Mimics true psychiatric disorder *
Autonomic nervous system disorders like NMH (neurally mediated hypotension),

Any hormones out of range?

Loss of interest in sex? Libido very low

Any abnormal sugar - high or low

Abnormal blood pressure? high or low
Growth abnormalities (or as birth defect) Fractured bones - growing again as an adult

Body Temp variations?

Thyroid problems?
Burning foot syndrome?
Premature menopause?

Headaches - worse than a migraine

Any swollen, enlarged glands? Organs? such as ovaries, testes, heart, pancreas, spleen, thyroid, uterus

Teeth fall out?

Bladder problems?

Loss of hair?

Loss of taste? Loss of Smell?

Mitochondrial diseases

Myasthenia gravis Such as Aristotle Onassis had

Look/Feel Older than your years?

Keep getting pneumonia?

SKIN: dry, leathery skin (defatted)?

Nosebleeds? _____

______

Internal scaring?

Any autoimmune diagnosis

... especially autoimmune metabolic issues?

Thick, dark blood?
Joints hurt?
Gout
MS - shares a gulf war vet
ALS
Scleroderma - Immune system attacks Nuclei and centromeres
Asthma - Beta-2 adrenergic
receptorsInsulin-resistant diabetes - Insulin receptor
Thyroiditis - Immune system attacks Thyroid
Immunoglobulin A, B, and M

Chronic overweight?

Sudden high cholesterol? such as in Syndrome X

Loss of Vision?

holes in retina _____
Sensitive to light ____

Bones do not heal?

Any reproductive harm?

Sperm count dropping? burning semen? ___

Premature births? ___ low birth weight? ___

Zero Sperm - Spontaneous infertility? * ____

Ovarian tumors? ____

Have you been able to have children? ____

Gestational Trophoblastic Disease ____

CFS, CFIDS, FM?

Select a questionnaire from this list A, B, C, D ... www.valdezlink.com/pages/thebasics.htm

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
- More things to look into
Very important - any serious flu-like symptoms with diarrhea / nausea?

Remember a time with flu-like symptoms , but it wasn't the flu? Eyes burning and hurting; urine turns dark ... and HORRIBLE FATIGUE that lasts and lasts and lasts? A a grouchiness you didn't have before. Example

If so, what were you doing then? or who was nearby?

Or some other signs of too much of some kind of chemical?

Any gall stones? ___ when____

Any kidney stones? ___ when____

What did your parents / grandparents do during