Another synonym for 2-butoxyethanol is ethylene glycol monobutyl ether.
 

A solvent & Pesticide the Gulf War Troops 1990-1991 were exposed to   

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A pet peeve of mine is that so many affected by this chemical, give credit to the multiple side effects - & not the primary cause of harm.

5-24-04 Just this week, someone I know is at near end of life with liver failure: very swollen (she looks pregnant) and legs swollen up so much that her knees don't bend. The more she shared on her symptoms, the more I started wondering about 2-butoxyethanol poisoning. Her thyroid is too low in its counts; she has now started having kidney stones (which could be from this metabolic imbalance). I've seen her have headaches that were horrible and she turned white as a sheet. She said she had headaches from the age of 5 so badly that she was taken to the doctor for them. She shared that her mother died 25 years ago ... of, you know, the long list including kidney cancer/failure ....  

Has she had a retic ratio? Not likely.
Are the doctors going to be able to help her? Not likely

(Sue did die:  9-29-04)

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There's a woman in our town ... who had a brain tumor behind her eye & they peeled half of her head skin back to take it out. (I thought to myself that if one of her parents were harmed by this 2-butoxyethanol that she would be more at risk for brain tumors and leukemia). 5-24-04 as I walked in the National Cancer 'walk-a-thon' sponsored by our college, I noticed that her dad died this year with pancreatic cancer.