Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Blood Tests Show Elevated Level of Toxic Hydrocarbons in Gulf Residents...
Well, I know from personal research and experience that Toluene (C6H5CH3) is present naturally in Crude Oil. It is also profoundly unstable. It'll dance with nearly anything that has what it needs at the moment... and then move on. Always leaving a little something behind for good or ill... Sometimes reforming.
This here is a nasty, unstable little hydrocarbon that knows how to party hard and never really leave.Four months of 9+ hours of daily exposure to Toluene in a Navy Lithographic darkroom, making and sealing Metalphoto plates, was enough to render me epileptic with lesions to my Occipital and Temporal Lobes like cigarette burns, and Medically Retired of the Navy as a Disabled Veteran at age 28. My case stopped the Navy's Metalphoto production.
The Official Metalphoto Promo Movie of My Time-- sexy!:Toluene is amongst the least of the unstable hydrocarbons in Crude Oil.Like magic! Turns out, back then, the "Seal The Plates" step involved lots of Toluene, an open 55gal. vat, and no EPA, OSHA, or NAVOSH ventilation protocol.
Short story told long is a big health problem is surfacing. Project Gulf Impact informs us how to get tested:
The blood test performed on these individuals is called the Volatile Solvents Profile (Metametrix.com). The test can be obtained and administered by any physician with the ability to perform a simple blood draw. The test will be shipped to a laboratory for analysis and returned to your doctor for interpretation and treatment.
OK. On to the story... via Washington's Blog
A number of different chemists are finding elevated levels of toxic hydrocarbons in the bloodstream of Gulf coast residents.
What is most disturbing about these results is that people who simply live near the water are showing higher than normal levels of toxic chemicals. These are not fishermen, shrimpers, oil workers or others who work on the water.
Jerry Cope recently wrote about his test results in a must-read essay at Huffington Post.
Several Gulf coast residents described their test results in the following video:
And the Intel Hub has uploaded some of the other test reports.
The local ABC news affiliate in Pensacola, Florida - ABC3 Wear - covered the story:
Several residents of Orange Beach say the oil spill has been making them sick...and they have the test results to prove it.
Gerry Cope, Margaret Carrouth and Robin Young were all feeling the same symptoms of headaches, watery eyes, and breathing problems...
All three had blood samples taken at the beginning of August...
Tests revealed each had elevated levels of the Hydrocarbons Ethyl Benzene and Xylene.
Bob Naman, a chemist out of Mobile, analyzed the results.
"He shows three times the amount you typically find in someone's blood."
"These people are from different backgrounds, and from different walks of life, all showing same similar organic compounds in blood, says to me its very likely in the air."
Background levels of these chemicals were taken from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control's Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals.
Lots of links, and much more at the Washington's Blog link, above.
Read it.
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