Was Mycotoxins and Ammonia; Now Masking by Carl Grimes

[Guest guest]

On Behalf Of Carl E. Grimes

I agree with your assessment of 's statement. It started back in

the '50s with the advertising compaign of " Better Living Through

Chemistry " and has continued through to today.

Chemical exposures are particularly troublesome, especially with

frequent or daily use of cleaning products and personal care

products, due to " masking. " Masking could also be called " blocking, "

meaning the bodys normal negative reaction stops despite the

continued harm.>>>>>>

Thank you Carl for joining this discussion and giving us your professional

thoughts. I

totally agree with you and have been trying to teach others " masking "

syndrome. So often we think if we don't have an immediate reaction we are

safe; but as you pointed out that is not the case. That's one of the

reasons I've been teaching so many for a decade why they should use safer

products both in the homes, toiletries, in the garden, maintenance with

vehicles, etc. (thanks again for the GSE in my A/C system in the SUV). Good

example is someone who used a great deal of perfume on a daily basis; the

person can no longer smell the perfume on him/her but others might gag being

around that person. Or those with MCS, have often heard they will go into a

thrift store to purchase clothes, the clothes have no odor; once they've

left the store, driven home they quickly detect the dry cleaning odors,

fabric softeners, detergents, perfumes, etc on the clothes. By then they are

reacting but the odors were masked in the stores. Masking is something we

must all be aware of and Thank You so much for sharing with us.

It's like an iceberg; we can see the top but not the massive bottom. Same

applies to food intolerances and allergies. It's a cascade of internal

symptoms and harm to the body without the " normal " immediate symptoms such

as not assimilating foods, becoming deficient in nutrients due to loss of

assimilation, degenerate diseases due to the chronic nutrient deficiencies,

small intestine and large intestine permeability (leaky gut) causing

auto-intoxication, etc. And the chemicals can and have been shown to cause

neurological damage, brain damage often in the left brain function affecting

math skills, recall, etc.

>>>One reason Dr was able to attain statistical

significance for her Quick Environmental Exposure Sensitivity

Inventory (QEESI) when all others failed was because she accounted

for masking.>>>>

Now Carl you knew I'd ask you about the QEESI. And you know what my

question is; do you have her QEESI which you could share with us or point us

to a link? I think this is something we all will benefit from.

>>This is one time when our direct experience with exposure cannot be

solely relied on. For example, those of you who do not detect a

reaction to ammonia may be experiencing " masking. " Therefore, I would

suggest caution with ammonia, a known reactant. Perhaps an occasional

specific use is effective, as with solvents, but I would never

recommend frequent use for any of my clients.>>

Thank you Carl for your gentle warning. We all really need to think before

we use anything in our homes or bodies and weigh the pros and cons of

everything. Dr. Kaye H. Kilburn wrote a good book called Endangered Brains,

How chemicals threaten our future. It's quite a mind opener when we

consider what " normal " chemicals in almost all homes can do to our brains

and bodies.

Dr. Kilburn states about ammonia: At home ammonia water is used to degrease

and clean windows and ovens. It causes tearing of the eyes, and burning of

the skin and of the respiratory tract that have been noted since 1887. when

ammonia generated in the human body fails to be converted to urea in the

liver, it poisons the brain producing coma as was recognized 50 years ago.

Inhaled ammonia has the same effect---it poisons the brain. Symptoms report

by Dr. Kilburn are cough, shortness of breath, poor endurance, lost muscular

strength progressively, headaches, confusion, trouble with concentration,

loss of memory, difficulty recalling even events of the day, irritable with

muscle pain, difficulty sleeping, numb and pail fingers, mouth sores, rash

on cheeks, sun sensitivity on skin and hair loss like SLE (Lupus).

Respiratory distresses include burning and sloughing of the lining of

airways which can lead to loss of breathing, pneumonia, small airways can be

filled with puss and fibrosis deep in the lung's alveoli.

And he states there are localized distinctive effects of ammonia on the

anterior horn cells of the spinal cord, the same cells affected by polio, a

well-known motor neuron disease. Ammonia inhalation also can cause coma and

brain damage, encephalopathy just as surely as liver failure. Poisoning of

the brain by ammonia is familiar to physicians because of the key role in

the liver failure established over 50 years ago. During culminant liver

failure, large amounts of ammonia are dumped into the blood together with

phenols and tyramine that produce hepatic coma. Thus, ammonia and

associated toxicants shut down the human nervous system.

The threads of evidence braid into a coherent picture that puts the

astrocytes, the non-neuron brain cells, in the center of responses to

ammonia whether the source is inhalation or failure of urea in the formation

of the liver. Inhaled ammonia produces encephalopathy. Ammonia resembles

inhaled chlorine in producing lung damage (see Chapter 3).

Safer substitutes for ammonia's risky household uses are many. End of quote

from Dr. Kilburn.

Thank you again Carl for your input and please do share the QEESI when you

have time.

Warmly,

Rosie