I believe I know what chemical exposure would cause ALS ...

and I recognize how easy it is to be exposed, and I can tell when I am being exposed, and that is frightening to me.  Besides direct exposure and exposure in the family line from someone, like my dad, who was in WWII.  I have the same diarrhea reaction that Pres Eisenhower had.  His doctors said it came on for no apparent reason.  I say that it is when you are getting exposed second hand:  the breath of someone poisoned can get in your eyes, and that is the worst exposure after the cuticle area.

I think nurses can get around people strongly exposed and get their breath in their eyes; they can be directly exposed by being around paint fumes and cleaning fumes; and like me, they can have a parent who was poisoned by EGBE prior to their conception and have some effects from it, even if it doesn't show up until one's 50's

AVOID 2-butoxyethanol

It is a chemical poisoning that we can suspect for the soldiers of all war eras, but especially WWII, Vietnam, Korean, GULF WAR (then and now).  ALS is the stand out harm for the gulf war syndrome vets, and since I suspect 2-butoxyetahnol exposure to cause what ails them ... and also the same chemical is FOR SURE the primary exposure for the workers of the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup, I wonder how these too groups LOOK ALIKE

This poor part time school janitor was exposed, what happened to him should NEVER happen to anyonne

For the baby boomers, like me, who have adult onset diabetes, consider it a late to show up birth defect from a parent poisoned by EGBE in WWII.  I think Australians are more at risk, until recently, because you fought in a lot of wars, too.  (You were in WWII longer than USA was, etc)

Margaret

Why I looked into this chemical in the first place

HI SARAH I'M CHARLIE FROM AUSTRALIA I'VE HAD ALS 26YEARS
STARTED IN MY VOICE, DOCTOR TOLD ME I HAD WORSE KIND
AND GAVE ME 2 TO 3 YEARS, GUESS HE WAS WRONG LOL
SORRY ABOUT YOUR MUM IT SURE IS A BUGGER OF A DESEASE
HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SARAH, OR ANYBODY WHO READS THIS

CCHARLIE FROM OZ
Sarah Dinah <sarahdinah@yahoo. com> wrote:
Hello everyone! I am not sure why I decided to join this group, but I am
doing so spontaneously, having just read an article about ALS and that
article's having triggered memories of my mother, Nancy, who died of ALS
in September of 2001, just before 9/11. I remember when she first told us
of her diagnosis (she was a nurse), we asked her what ALS was like, and
she said, "Honey, you don't want to know." She had the fast moving type
of ALS, and she lived just a little over three years after she was
diagnosed. I learned from her to appreciate the simplest things, like being
able to clear your throat or stretch a muscle when you're getting a cramp.
She could not do either of those things for months before she died.
Anyway, I don't know how long I'll be a member here, because this subject
is just so painful and frightening still, but for what it's worth, I'm here now.

Take care,

Sarah