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Dawn,
Are you still on this well water? Perhaps a scientist or mathematician on this list can respond to your conversion questions. I am concerned though even if the chemicals were found in low levels that the combination of them are more toxic than being found alone, especially benzene + radiation. This is called synergistics. The combination at low levels can be potentially harmful to the offspring of pregnant women so if you were expecting your daughter while being exposed to this H20, then that exposure could had set off a reaction which led to her AML. I believe this is somewhat what happened in my son's ALL case. He had chronic anemia for several months before he was diagnosed with a high SED rate.
Ethylene dibromide (EDB) was a lead scavenger and its presence could be an indicator of a leaking underground storage tank. EDB is being found all over the place and is a serious threat to groundwater and human health.
Here are the health effects of EDB from EPA website:
What are the Health Effects?
Short-term: EPA has found EDB to potentially cause the following health effects when people are exposed to it at levels above the MCL for relatively short periods of time: damage to the liver, stomach, and adrenal glands, along with significant reproductive system toxicity, particularly the testes.
Long-term: EDB has the potential to cause the following effects from a lifetime exposure at levels above the MCL: damage to the respiratory system, nervous system, liver, heart, and kidneys; cancer.
Hope this helps, and will be praying for your 3 1/2 year old daughter's recovery.
jill
In a message dated 12/15/2007 4:59:41 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, ChildhoodCancerTheCause@yahoogroups.com writes:
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Posted by: "Dawn Cepero" dawncepero@...
Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:31 pm (PST)
I wanted to ask a question... I was looking back through our well testing after 2 1.2 years since my daughter's sudden onset and passing of AML *5 days total symptoms, then diagnosis, then passing the next night with a 283000 wbc - she was 4 yrs old; I think I found something interesting, but not exactly sure...
I had already received confirmation 10 days after her death by a private lab I hired that there indeed was Tetrachlorethylene, Radiation and Benzene found in our well, but the county's labs never confirmed any number higher than the EPA norm, which by the way is based on a 35 year old healthy male. Regardless, the CDC told me that yes, while those contaminants were indeed found in our well and 2 of 3 were directly related and known to cause her type of Adult Form Leukemia, that they did not feel they were at a high enough level. The Tetrachloretyhelene had come from a spill a few years earlier which was only 2/3 of a mile away and had effected 90 private wells and was 60x greater than the safe drinking water level. Regardless, I was going through the labs from the county again and saw something strange.
They never gave me ranges for the tests. They simply said every thing had been tested at ug/l and against MDL standards.
The odd thing is that out of all of the volitile organic compouns on the test, 1/2 of them are scored at PPB - Parts per Billion. the other half at PPM - Parts per MIllion.
To convert ug/l to mg/l you would divide by 1000 and multiply for the opposite result.
Now, 1 mg/l = 1 ppm and 1 ug/l = 1 ppb
If that is the case, how can they properly give me data not converted to match the EPA's scale for each toxin. Instead they put a U or an E, pretty much saying it is there, but at a lower level or between the level.
When I pulled the data myself, those that scored for example, Ethylene Dibromide which scored a .25 ug/l. The EPA says anything over a .05 ppb is too high.
If 1 ug/l = 1 ppb, isn't that 5x the safe amount? or am I missing something. If it is, this is the same fuel based product associated with some cases in Fresno recently and knowing that Benzene can also be a fuel product, really does not surprise me. I am terribly concerned as my youngest child, now 3 1/2 was just found to have consistent chronic, non iron deficient anemia.
She is actually having a Colonoscopy and an Endoscopy on the 26th, but frankly they have thrown about 7 possible things at me and she is having other symptoms now.
I am in need of some definite help.
Thank you.
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