Those with CFIDS & others will notice an all the time fatigue; you will notice a very grouchy personality change

Is the fatigue from exposure to 2-butoxyethanol ?

Is there BLOOD in your urine?  From a lot in the beginning to just a TRACE now?  You should feel the fatigue hit  4 months after exposure.  (Red blood cell life is supposed to be 120 days?)  A key to identifying 2-butoxyethanol poisoning is also to know if your red blood cells are immature?   

Do you have too many immature red blood cells??? 

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 or CIDP?

Grande Mal Seizures

Any swollen, ulcerated organs:

Gall bladder ___

Spleen ___

Pancreas ___

Testes ___

Heart ___ 

These ___ Other ____  Do you have several symptoms?

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

Any of these symptoms of hemolytic anemia  * acute exposure
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 

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 and more