Concerned? Report to the FDA or the AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION with your proof. If indeed you have any.

I think it's all about genetics and lifestyle.

I think it was the cause of Anna Nicole Smith's death

I think it was poor choices.

My eyes and my lifestyle are fine.

Sounds like an urban legend to me.

I did too

My friend, who is 38 years old, had to sell her salon last year and retire from the beauty business. Her doctor is just now starting to suspect the chemicals in hair dyes and other solutions for her ailments. For years, it's been a mystery. I'm not sure which chemical they're fussing over, but it might be this one OP is talking about.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

No, not too much mascara ... but too much of 2-butoxyethanol. Since Anna Nicole was close to someone taking flu meds ... and since she was looking for a boat to buy in FL just before the fever and fatigue to the point of collapsing ... I think it was her immune system prematurely destroying her red blood cells. IF they kept any blood samples, see if there were 'bites' out of them. IF she had gone to the doctor, they would have found blood in her urine.

This chemical exposure in the extreme 'looks like' the flu.

YES ... second hand solvent exposure in this example.

Beauty salones? Suspect anything that is sprayed & that allows the vapors to get in ones eyes. Compare to the CFS, FM, & CFIDS symptoms which includes horrible headaches AND short term memory loss, suicidal tendencies, severe depression and difficulty sleeping. Not to mention the 'fly off the handle all the time over nothing' (Personality change)

Look at the pattern in these 2 people: Donny, a gulf war vet; and Robin an Exxon Valdez Oil spill cleanup worker

What job did your brother in law do on the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup? It depends on what job he did. But I know of secretaries in the office who have had side effects from the 'second hand' solvent exposure. Workers coming into the office to pick up their checks who were exposed to the complex alcohol, 2-butoxyethanol, would breath it out in their breath. Someone sitting there gets those vapors in their eyes over and over again. One woman will never have children (infertility); one woman died of lung cancer; one nurse who saw many died last year of ALS

I think many who have the issues you share about can LOOK healthy, but they just push through the fatigue and the depression and the memory loss & keep on going until one day they collapse

I think Anna Nicole got too much second hand exposure to this chemical and that her immune system killed her. They never came up with anything that would be a cause of death.

I've been giving a lot of thought to Pres FDR who has the entire pattern of this chemical's harm. I think it is the cause of bird flu of 1918. Those male tanks had canon on them; it was an experiment; people were so black and blue from lack of oxygen that you couldn't tell what race they were. (I think it was a stronger version of this chemical that instead of prematurely destroying your red blood cells; killed them off all at once.)

Pres FDR as Assist Sect of the Navy in 1917 got as close to the front lines of WWII action as he could. On the return voyage he came down with a strange influenza. I would like to know more about this 'flu' (Exposure to 2-butoxyethanol looks like the flu) Lesser exposure looks like sniffles with farting to diarrhea

Pres Eisenhower was teaching soldiers in those days.

I suspect the autoimmune issues (Crohn's for Eisenhower) and autoimmune issue of nervous system for FDR that started up in about 1922 were from this type of exposure. Pres FDR did not have polio, they now believe. He had an autoimmune issue of the nervous system that caused paralysis.

The common denominator for this chemical exposure is what we today call CFIDS. Look for it among soldiers of every era: ESPECIALLY the Vietnam Vet era