I'd like to share my perspective on exposure to 2-butoxyethanol - from a practical observation.

Anyway last Wed evening my daughter visited her best friend, Diane and she took her two children for the evening after she got off work.

Since her husband is away right now, I am helping babysit as she has to leave for work at 4:30 am. As I visited with her before she went to bed at 9pm she said that this 'cold type congestion' came on her suddenly.  And that both the children had started having 'the sniffles'

When I came on Thursday to watch the children it was about 2 hours later that this diarrhea started and would not quit the whole entire night. (That's how I react to just a little 2-butoxyethanol vapors getting in my eyes)

I told her I would come at 3AM on Fri because I couldn't take any more exposure to this chemical.  Well, no problem that night ... I wonder whether the vapors went higher in the house, and that's why they didn't bother me.

She let the 2 year old stay with Diane on Sat PM and Diane complained that the child was sick and coughed the whole night long. I am here at my daughter's house now, Easter Day evening, and the child hasn't coughed once.

I think that the child was getting exposed to the 2-butoxyethanol vapors from something Diane uses to clean her house or some such thing. I think sniffles and coughing are signs of too much of some type of chemical

I think Pres Eisenhower, like me, was maxed out on this chemical, and that he reacted similarly when he came into contact with it

I think that the little girl wasn't sick before going to Diane's house, I think she was being exposed to a chemical that made her sick and started coughing and coughing. (Most probably 2-butoxyethanol which causes a loosening of the sinuses, farting, diarrhea, 'flu' type symptoms)

So, I shared with my daughter, because there is some of this chemical exposure in our family ... maybe on both sides for her children (as she is married to a gulf war & Somalia & Panama Vet) ... that we react to 2-butoxyethanol more quickly that others who are not maxed out.

Each of the children was born prematurely, baby brother didn't grow for 2 months; the little girl had a hemangioma appear soon after birth. (In my opinion these are 'clues' to this chemical being somewhere in the family line)

I suspect my dad who was in WWII in the Navy during 'action' was poisoned by it prior to my conception in 1945. I know I have had my own exposure in some of the cleaning products I have used AND I have gotten second hand exposure. (Being around someone who is expelling it in their breath ... it is a complex alcohol and maybe someday they will develop a breathalyzer test for it)

Research says that it causes acute hemolytic anemia in rats .... and in humans:  just a loosening of the sinuses.

Suspect farting and diarrhea and 'the sniffles' as the first clues

Overall, suspect autoimmune issues

I wonder whether or not Lorenzo would have come down with leukodystrophy at age 5 if he hadn't moved into the house in the USA (What cleaning products did the maid use?)

I wonder about whether the grandchild of founder of Autismspeaks.org would have developed Autism after normal development if there hadn't been exposure to this chemical somewhere (Note the epidemic of Autism in China after their industrialization frenzie)

I wonder whether the headaches those with brain tumors have ... actually are part of the CFIDS that 2-butoxyethanol causes - not the brain tumor per se.

Thelma's brain tumor

I think Pres Clinton is barking up the wrong tree to blame obesity epidemic on how kids eat. Yes there have been changes, but we have more exposure to the chemical that causes autoimmune metabolic issues. Maybe it's not their fault

And DIABETES and CANCERS ... more of what too much EGBE for all sources combined ... does cause

ALS & MS type issues

Do these have a subnormal body temp?