Chronic Fatigue syndrome could be caused by household
chemicals
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Subject: Chronic Fatigue syndrome could be caused by household chemicals.....
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 09:18:20 -0500
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of
California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought
you might like to read a little unbiased research:
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HREF="http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_464291.html">
Chronic Fatigue syndrome could be caused by household
chemicals
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A scientist believes chronic fatigue syndrome could be
caused by common chemicals like head lice treatments and insect repellents.
Professor Mohamed Abou-Donia also says the illness has
similar characteristics to Gulf War syndrome. His tests show chemicals which are
relatively harmless used separately, can become highly toxic to the brain when
used together. Professor Abou-Donia
says governments should consider restricting the availability of some household
chemicals until more is known about their interaction in the brain and with
other substances such as over-the-counter medicines.
He made his claims at a chronic fatigue syndrome conference
in Sydney. The condition is believed to affect up to one in 250 adults.
Professor Abou-Donia is an expert in pharmacology, cancer biology and
neurobiology at Duke University Medical Centre, reports the Eurekalert
website http://www.eurekalert.org
He found rats exposed to an insect repellent and an
insecticide suffered brain cell death "consistent with muscle weakness,
joint pain and problems with the central nervous system".
He also discovered they were more susceptible to the damage
if under stress. Stress seemed to
cause minor breakdown of the blood-brain barrier allowing chemicals to permeate
the brain more easily. (One
of the most stressful situations a child can be in, is to find out they have
lice!)
"It seems to me that CFS and Gulf War syndrome have
many common characteristics," said Professor Abou-Donia.
Well Mr. Helliker,
when you can treat head lice with table salt and/or other safe and far
more effective materials rather than using any of your dangerous
"registered" POISONS, one has to ask why you personally will not allow
the use of safe and far more economical and effective
unregistered alternatives? http://www.thebestcontrol.com
Respectfully,
Stephen L. Tvedten
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