Similar to SIDS?

[Margaret Diann]

.... only they saw it coming? ... or did they?

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome http://www.sids.org

I suppose any time you see the term ... "syndrome' it means that the doctors recognize what your are talking about exists, but they don't know what causes it.

If people only realized that the harm of 2-buotyxethanol affects THEM. It is so pervasive in our country; it has been so for so long; that almost every one knows someone and most likely would even have close family members affected by it.

In listening to the stories of the gulf war vets; their children born before they were deployed (& spouses) in some cases came down with the 'gulf war syndrome' too.

I've learned that second hand exposure is not that hard to come into; along with possibly being born with a little exposure from our parents ... and getting our own in life;

Now, a baby can't take as much as a grown person can.

This gulf war vet describes a wrenching story of the loss of his child:

Oct 11, 2000 by Jody Crockett, "I am JDC4058. I served in the storm bravely and honorably just like the majority of you out there. I have something tearing my heart out and I would like to know if there is anyone out there who has suffered the same thing as I have.

In November of 1992 my wife gave birth to by all appearances a healthy baby girl. 15 days later my baby girl was dead from an unknown illness. All of her organs began shutting down all of a sudden and there was just nothing that could be done to save her. Her liver was the first organ to fail.

After that all of her other organs just shut down one by one. After her funeral I hired a medical malpractice lawyer to find out just what she died of as the resident pathologist in the hospital in which she died could not give me a definitive cause for her death. Her death certificate states that she died of the Herpes Simplex Virus. That is a funny thing as neither my wife or my self suffer from any type of Herpes Simplex Virus.

I don't know what to do. I don't know where to go for help. My heart is broken forever and I would dearly love for one of my comrades in arms to tell me what has happened to my beautiful little girl. Please help!"


Another gulf war vet shares ... only his daughter lived longer:

"A gulf war vet shared that last year their little girl turned 10 years old and was diagnosed with hepatitis. It was an autoimmune hepatitis and her immune system was attacking her own liver. She died Dec, 2003

He knew I was studying such issues and asked me if I had heard of that. I said, "No, but that it would be the kind of thing that 2-butoxyethanol would do" Liver and kidneys and other bodily systems including blood are at risk.

The blood damage that is not found is autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Maybe you could ask the doctors whether or not she has that? They have to check the 'retic rate' and other things like whether or not the red blood cells are immature and whether or not there is blood in urine. www.valdezlink.com/psa.htm The hemoglogin and hematocrit that they first look at usually is OK except in the most extreme cases.

Parents harmed by this chemical can pass along some of it to their children because it is a teratogen. www.valdezlink.com/teratogens.htm and if the parents are doing menial work, like housekeeping, cleaning of buildings and such, they could very easily run into this chemical.

Other concers of gulf war vets' children have

Can babies be exposed to n-butyl ether chemicals? which can cause liver and other organs to shut down?

second hand solvent exposure is something that people don't give much thought to ... I suspect 2nd hand solvent exposure to this family & new baby:

A new mom and her husband, and 6 mo old baby are visiting his family this Christmas. Friday the week before Christmas baby was throwing up and had bad diarrhea ... but was in a happy mood and didn't seem to have a fever.

At first I looked at it like most people do, oh, everyone is coming down with the flu. Then it hit me. I suspect that this was most likely a response to a chemical exposure such as the common one I've been studying. So, has baby been in a freshly painted bedroom? Has someone who was holding her 15 minutes before ... been breathing these chemicals into her eyes?

I am concerned for them. I hope they will take this seriously ...

When things like this happen, there have been instances of the body organs shutting down. Maybe some SIDS is actually this? Even if nothing this serious happens, is it possible to get CFS & all those other effects? Test this for fatigue

Then I remember that this young mom said that everyone wasn't feeling well, but it started with baby ... So I want to know who arrived in that household on Friday?

So, if you are holding a new baby, and have been feeling more tired & grouchy than normal, remember that you can expel the chemicals like 2-butoxyethanol in your breath ... and the main route of exposure may be into the eyes of another. I suggest the researchers for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome look into this ... that maybe the body system just suddenly shuts down, more than that the child quits breathing, and let's put the baby on its back to sleep ...

Another?

This is so sad. I am a teacher at an elem school and we just found out today that one of our little girls is dying. She was perfectly healthy a week ago. Then on Thanksgiving Day, she got sick. It was her liver. It failed Friday, they did a transplant and it didn't take. She is now in a coma and the doctors say there is no hope.

My question to any medical experts - WTF? Can a kid go from being perfectly healthy to liver failure in just a few days? We are in shock and struggling for answers. Her mom doesn't speak English and so we are dealing with translators to get more info for us. But I was hoping someone here would know if this is a bizarre isolated incident or what in the world could have caused this to happen.

2-butoxyethanol MSDS
I think what I'm talking about is the harm from n-butyl ethers.
OSHA was checking into this chemical family Nov, 2002 for 46,000 auto workers.

Others around the world seem to know more about its harm than we do. Why is that?

Why I studied 2-butoxyethanol Why I studied this chemical (Had I not done so, I NEVER would have known or recognized its patterns or found the common denominator)