(Industrial) Consumer Environmental Factors Triggering Asthma

[Guest guest]

15 July 2006

The first thing anyone with a child inheriting the consequences of

our multi-generational toxic irresponsibility (chronic disease,

diminished quality-of-life and SSDI disability with resultant

substantial preventable taxpayer burden) should ask is why our

medical community and malpractice and health insurance providers

allow for continued antiquated industrial trade secret protection on

products (including CAS benzene derivative Fragrances) which

obstructs their ability to perform accurate differential diagnosis

and treatment.

Then we should get our DOJ to start being more than toilet

patrollers (their words, not mine, referencing the amount of their

time spent measuring toilets for wheelchair accessibility) and start

providing equal protection for the civil and disability rights of

our breathing disabled citizens, particularly in non-optional

environments as HUD restricted-funding housing. These citizens need

lawful right-to-habitability protection from neighbor nuisance VOC

fumes (including from secondhand smoke and consumer products)

through improved construction standards and segregated covenant-

protected existing stock housing, minimally wings of multi-units.

How many more decades must we regurgitate the health effects of VOCs

as in secondhand smoke while neglecting continued preventable pain

and suffering of citizens who don't need to be educated on them but

need protection from their neighbors for whom this education is lost?

Do you have any idea what it is like to be suffering stroke symptoms

while MDs try to get MSDS from phenol dental composite material

manufacturer while the MDs claim they don't know who is trained to

respond anyway? (Including recent MD/DDM multiple ivy league

graduate.) And then suffer the added insult from this very large

chemical manufacturer that they haven't had any significant adverse

event reports when a 12-year old can find such on the internet?

I do personally. And, as I said earlier, the mechanism-of-action

from RX product which got me here is universally medically accepted.

The answer to your question regarding our regulatory " watchdogs " is

obvious.

How do we " push the right buttons harder " ? We look integrity up in

the dictionary and recognize that it means being Precautionary-

Principled starting right now, not after more ad nauseam studies

regurgitating the same conclusion stating need for more ad nauseam

studies. And we start showing respect for human life beyond claims

for interests in embryos and stem cells in an election campaign.

> Thanks C for your response. I agree that the word " Some " should

be added to the title and content of my original message. And I

agree that " we do not ignore the obvious. "

> But, are " we " doing enough? By " we " I mean not just

professionals in this broad field of IEQ, but the medical research

community and the regulatory watchdogs. IMHO, not even close to

enough. As big as the asthma issue is, and it is growing rapidly,

there is not nearly enough money and/or political interest in

looking for solutions and guarding against unnecessary exposures.

> Is there a way that we (IEQ profs) can be more effective in

getting appropriate attention focused on this major health issue?

How do we push the right buttons harder?

> Miles