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January, 2004 BLOOD DISORDERS CAUSES- ONE TYPICAL CASE I INVESTIGATED From 1986, after being diagnosed as having severe aplastic anaemia, I have investigated many cases of blood disorders resulting from bone marrow destruction including aplastic anaemia, thrombocytopenia and many other related conditions which are documented in medical textbooks and papers to be caused by drugs, chemicals and radiation. One of many such references is Bowman and Rand “Textbook on Pharmacology” “Most cases of aplastic anaemia are caused by drugs and chemicals” “Ionising radiation has the same effect”. One case, typical of many I investigated, was that of a woman in her 40’s called M.G. She was diagnosed with a chronic moderate anaemia which did not require transfusions and her doctors were totally puzzled by her condition. Only red cells were noticeably reduced and the condition remained unchanged for about 9 years when her condition suddenly deteriorated and she was told she now had myelodysplastic anaemia. She now needed regular transfusions of whole blood, white cell and platelets counts being little reduced. It was at this point she contacted me through an article I wrote in the media.. I gave her medical papers and information from textbooks showing that the causes of conditions like hers were documented and asked her to write down what she remembered of events in the weeks and months before her original anaemia problems and around the time her condition deteriorated about 9 years later. It transpired that a few weeks before her original anaemia was diagnosed she had spent 2 days cleaning a large amount of oil based paint spilled on an expensive carpet with very large amounts of an industrial benzene solvent given to her by a friend in a 10 gallons container. The exposure was not investigated by her doctors and she had not mentioned it as she had no idea it could have caused her condition. Note: In medical papers solvent abuse and similar large exposures to benzene and related chemicals is known to cause serious and fatal blood disorders and I have come across several cases following large exposure or long term repeated exposures to these chemicals e.g. benzene, xylene and toluene. Her quite rapid deterioration to myelodysplastic anaemia had followed shortly after large exposures to wood preservatives used treating a fence and a garden hut inside and out. Although she had not saved the chemical container it would have, at that date, certainly been lindane (benzene hexachloride) possibly with pentochlorophenol. Both these chemicals and lindane in particular are shown to cause blood disorders, leukaemia and other cancers documented in 100’s of medical papers, textbooks etc. Compensation has been paid where laboratory tests proved a cause and effect. A report in the Haematology Journal in 1990 showed one hospital had found 3 of their patients with aplastic anaemia had very high levels of lindane in their body fats compared to healthy control patients. This chemical is now banned. Note also that lindane is stored in body fat and there was a huge drop in levels of breast cancer in Israel after lindane was banned. I gave the woman a copy of a survival and recovery guide on two A4 pages I had printed. This warns how medical textbooks and papers note those suffering the blood disorders resulting from drug, chemical and radiation exposure can be highly sensitised and very susceptible to even small exposure of known causative agents in the future. M.G. gave a copy of this guide to her haematology consultant who agreed with my conclusions of the cause and effects of her exposures, he told her he would take very great care with his own family in the future. M.G. spoke to us (my wife is an SRN) about holiday a trip to Africa she planned to go on with her husband. I warned he strongly against this as she was to take anti-malarial drugs, which I pointed out are very well documented to cause the blood disorders. Also at that time it was common to spray aircraft flights returning from Africa and other destinations where there are disease carrying insects with insecticides like lindane. She planned to make the trip between two of her regular blood transfusions. He husband insisted she went saying her doctors would have warned her of any danger. Shortly after her return her condition, which had been stable for a few years, again deteriorated suddenly, exactly as I expected and she was now had greatly reduced levels of all blood cells which required many transfusions. We visited her a few weeks before she died of pneumonia when sadly she said she realised she should have heeded our warnings and she knew her condition was now so severe she had little chance of survival. Several, including myself, have survived and recovered after following the common sense advice on survival and recovery in medical papers. This information is not given patients by the medical profession The above case is not unusual I have come across many similar and I have yet to come across a single case where the medical profession have investigated the possible cause of blood disorders resulting from exposure to drugs chemical and radiation. One or two patients remembered being asked a few vague questions about alcohol intake and were puzzled why. One answer, by Government experts, to questions I had asked in the U.K. Parliament on 11th Jan., 1989 (see Hansard) said that all cases of aplastic anaemia and related conditions were fully investigated to try to find a cause. Other answers said that over 1000’s cases of aplastic anaemia had been associated with being caused by nearly 200 prescribed drugs. I did not receive an answer to my question as to exactly how many over 1000 cases actually was, 1001 or 50,000 – both these number being over 1000. A large survey reported on in The Pharmaceutical Journal dated 2.11.96 noted that of patients admitted to hospital because of adverse drug reaction only 6.3% of these reactions had been reported by doctors on the yellow cards provided. There have been reports over many years, too numerous to list here and copies of which I have in my files, of the bribes to the medical profession from the drug industry to doctors to prescribe more and not report side-effects. Mrs Thatcher, George.W Bush and the present U.K Government have all said they intended to reduce or stop these bribes but no actual action has been forthcoming. Not surprisingly the medical profession, with no investigations at all, says it cannot easily find causes of conditions where they are fully aware that drugs, chemicals and radiation are the causes. Those who pay the piper call the tune. Recently the head of Glaxo Smith Kleine admitted what many of us have known for years, that most drugs are useless on most patients. Certainly I have found little difficulty in finding patients with blood disorders all of who had had substantial exposure to known causative agents and only one or two, who did not survive, had any idea there were known causes of their conditions. Since writing this in Jan. 2004 there have been countless reports of fraud and bribes etc from the drug industry to doctors but perhaps the report in the UK House of Commons enquiry into drug prescribing practices sums up the position very well. The report in the Guardian 3.4.2005 says drugs firms are “creating ills for every pill” and the power of the drug industry has turned to UK into and over-medicalised society with the drug industry pouring £billions into promoting new drugs at the expense of cheaper and better therapies. The M.P’s accused the drug industry of disease mongering and the secret process of licensing drugs which have often turned out to have serious and fatal side-effects.
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