An answer to a wife's concern,
"Why is my husband having bouts with paralysis?"
Anyone Having Bouts of Paralysis?
Why is this information being shared with you? Because I believe the biggest enemy our nation has faced in the last 70 years is this chemical of harm to Audrey's husband:
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Audrey K, "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. 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 came 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 and 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." |
June 12, 2003, My first response: "Thank you for sharing, Audrey, 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 2-butoxyethanol is bad enough all by itself & does have a wide range of symptoms that stump the doctors. I would ask your doctor to order the specialty testing for chemicals from ACCU-Chem labs & to consult with Dr. Rea or Dr Crinean. There may be a way of flushing out this poison & helping your husband regain his health. Please keep me posted. or use this e-mail, which is my personal 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 Hursh PO Box 233, Valdez, Alaska 99686 1-888-853-5333
July 19, 2003
Note this MSDS on 2-butoxyethanol - Do not mist!
March 12, 2004 Response:
valdezlink.com/paralysis.htm
valdezlink.com/why_fatigue.htm
IF the component of Simple Green, which I expect to be 2-butoxyethanol, has cause a fatigue from red blood cell damage, there can come a time that the bone marrow can't keep up with the replacement of the prematurely destroyed red blood cells ... and paralysis is possible. I heard of this happened to a painter being treated for prostate cancer. His bones were hurting Soooo bad & by the time the doctors found out & he got an accurate diagnosis, it was too late for a bone marrow transplant.
· valdezlink.com/anemia_check.htm#more
valdezlink.com/what_does_lab_recommend.htm
· Some helps in diagnosis?
· What is happening with the red blood cells?
· What size are they?
· What shape?
· What is the Retic ratio?
March 24
is the 'anniversary' of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound
valdezlink.com/learn_about_workers.htm 16 years - 2005 And more about workers
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What was primarily wrong with Inipol EAP 22?
- 2-butoxyethanol at 12% by weight was too strong a concentration.
- Workers had too much time exposed - 12-16 hour days 2 weeks straight (not 40 hour work days here) AND
- they didn't have adequate protective gear
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| Announcement |
Alaska Community Action on Toxics , the Eyak Preservation Council,
Alaska Forum for Environmental Responsibility and Alaska Wilderness
League are bringing a delegation of scientists, fishermen, community representatives and high school students to Washington DC the week of March 22-26.
We will be holding a press conference at the National Press Club on the 15th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on March 24.
We would like to meet with the EPA administrators of the offices of Science and Technology and Oceans and Coastal Protection to share our new findings of the long term impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and recommendations of desired regulatory reform.
We are available Monday afternoon, March 22 and Tuesday morning, March 23.
We would appreciate coordination of this meeting with Mike Leavitt,
Office of Administration, Debbie Dietrich Office of Emergency
Prevention, Preparedness & Response, Sharon Hayes, Water Policy staff,
Anthony Moore, Senior Policy Advisor and Carol Jorgensen and Jeff
Besougloff, American Indian Environmental Office.
Please contact Lydia Darby, (907) 222-7714. |
