Reply #61: Autoimmune? How can you tell?

[Dear Maggie]

OK

When I started learning about 2-butoxyethanol harm in earnest - June, 2002, I found from the information on the chemical that it causes hemolytic anemia. And yet, people with known harm to it, have not been diagnosed with it. Doctors seem to find the secondary effects and the multiple other add on ailments it causes, but not the 'fatigue' that no rest helps. (It should start immediately and last)

But it does appear to be autoimmune hemolytic anemia ... acquired ... for the group I first started studying, the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup workers.

Then, I suspect it to be the 'gulf war syndrome' vets primary exposure of harm. In talking to a lot of people in both of these groups, it seems that it is autoimmune. The child of a gulf war vet died last year at the age of 10 ... from autoimmune hepatitis, her body turned on her liver and destroyed it. She died one month after diagnosis Maybe SIDS is not age related

Comparing what CFS & CFIDS symptoms are and you would start seeing these as the 'civilian gulf war syndrome' groups

All of the things I've heard about from all of these groups, sounds like the harm of 2-butoxyethanol. It does it all. The fatigue the doctors aren't finding, I believe, is AIHA. It is a provable harm if more is checked in the red blood cells and if other tests are re-looked at when the red blood cells are found to be mostly immature and there is trace blood in urine for many years.

So, back to this autoimmune feature. If it is primary to harm of the red blood cells and the liver and the colon & other functions, how is it tested for? How can doctors not only recognize that it is there, but that possibly it is the primary cause of harm?