http://www.healthsentinel.com/news.php?event=news_print_list_item&id=555

Karen Gardner, "School’s perchlorate levels among highest", Berkshire
Eagle, January 18, 2005,
Link:
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~7516~2659365,00.html

Mount Greylock Regional High School’s wells have the third-highest
perchlorate levels among the eight communities in the state where the
chemical was found last year, according to a report by the
Massachusetts Community Water Watch program.

With a finding of 10 parts per billion on Oct. 5, 2004, the high school
site is ranked third in contamination severity, behind Boxboro with
1,300 parts per billion, and Millbury, with 45.3 parts per billion of
perchlorate found. The state has set a guidance level of 1 part per
billion for public water supplies; no enforceable state or federal
standard has been set.

Perchlorate — a chemical used in rocket fuel and certain fireworks —
was discovered last year at the school. It also was found in Boxboro,
Hadley, Millbury, Southbridge, Tewksbury, Westford and Westport.

The report states that the current focus of the investigation in
Williamstown into the source of the contamination is a fireworks
display that was put on jointly by the high school and the town.

"The soil around the wells is soft clay which can trap salts like
perchlorate for long periods of time," according to the report. "Thus,
to [ensure] the elimination of the problem, the soil would have to be
removed, which could lead to the destruction of the wells. The likely
solution would be to connect the school to the town’s public water
supply."

The report stated that perchlorate also has been found in 19 other
states in the country. It first became a concern in this state after
being discovered in Bourne in 2001. Since that time, the chemical was
found in the public and private drinking water systems of the eight
other Massachusetts municipalities.

On Friday, members of the Water Watch program released the report at a
news conference in front of the high school.

Massachusetts has the second-worst water quality in the nation, with
two-thirds of its waterways too polluted for fishing or swimming, the
report claims.

Health consequences from ingesting perchlorate are said to include
thyroid problems, lowered IQ, and compromised mental and physical
development in fetuses and small children.

"Because perchlorate has not been linked to cancer, it is on a lesser
priority level of toxins to be researched and regulated," the report
states.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has not set a time line to
research or set regulation standards for perchlorate, leaving millions
of Americans with dangerous drinking water supplies, according to the
report.

Water Watch works with college students and local residents to help
address the water quality problems in water sheds across the state,
doing water cleanups, monitoring streams and conducting educational
presentations.

The release of the report marked the end of the organization’s sixth
annual education week, during which time 154 classes and nearly 4,000
students — including those at Gabriel Abbott Memorial School in the
town of Florida — learned about water pollution.

Water Watch is an AmeriCorps program, financed by the Massachusetts
Public Interest Research Group education fund and the Massachusetts
Service Alliance.

Apparently there is are a large number of problems with lead poisoning
about, especially in children. The worst part is that because lead can’t
really be noticed by the senses you may not even know that it is there. A
large portion of this is as a result of lead paint that is still in older
houses which people might not even be aware of. If you take a look at
http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/case/lead_poisoning there is a lot of
information on the sources, effects, treatments and more of lead poisoning.
There is also a free case evaluation that may be of interest. I hope this
might be of help to some.

kr0

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Thanks
Bill

Hello!

I have a question about seizures my nephew has been having, but before
I ask, I’ll let you know a little info about him.

In MArch of 2003, my sister, only 24 weeks pregnant, went into
premature labor.  After 4 days of trying to stop the labor , and
complications from the medication, my little nephew was born, weighing
only 1 lb 8 ounces and only 11 3/4 inches long.  He had many breathing
problems and was on a ventilator for quite sometime.  He finally came
home 4 months later, still on an oxygen tank.  A few months later he
was free from the tank.

He is now 22 months old.  A while ago, he had a seizure and they put
him on Phenobarbital.  After months of taking the medication and not
having another one, they finally started weening him off of it.  A few
weeks after he was med-free, he had another seizure.  My sister and her
husband rushed him to the hospital, but they said he was fine and
released him within a few hours.

The scariest episode happened just this past Friday night.  I was
babysitting my neice, my sisters other child, and her mother in law was
going to watch my nephew so my sister and her husband could enjoy a
weekend by themselves.  My sister called me at about 11 that night and
said they were rushing my nephew to the hospital because he had had 3
seizures in a row.  Their is a children’s hospital in a nearby town, so
they were taking him there instead of to the local hospital.  By the
time he got to the hospital he had already had nine seizures.  They
immediately gave him shots of seizure medicine to get him to come out
of them.  When he finally stopped having the seizures, he had had 14
total.

They did an EEG on him and it didn’t show any abnormal brain activity.
They also did an MRI and still nothing out of the ordinary was found.
He had had a fever, so they were trying to find out if he had an
infection or a virus.  They did blood tests and spinal fluid tests and
no infection or virus was found anywhere. Today, Wednesday, they still
have no idea what triggered his seizures.

Now on to my question.

My sister just called and said earlier today, my nephew started shaking
really bad.  The nurse gave him a donut, and the shaking stopped, a
sign of low blood sugar.  I started researching this, and diabetes can
be a cause for seizures.  My family has a history of diabetes, my mom
and dad both have it, my sister (my nephew’s mother) had gestational
diabetes, my grandmother and grandfather on my dad’s side had it, and
my great-grandmother on my mom’s side had it.  The doctor has not yet
tested him for it.  But my question is has anyone reading this had any
history or know of anyone who has had a history  of seizures from
diabetes.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.  She is going to ask the nurse
about it the next time she comes in, but I would like to find out as
much as I can.

Thanks in advance for any info.

Nicky

Dear Reader’s

WE MISSED RAIN MAN"S CURSE!

Autism , of long ago and far away before it was was buzzword and common
condition was a strange somewhat better delt with condition than it is
today. As my Anthropology of folks all did our blind backwards
experiements in Autism as did our parents teachers and tutors ,we
stumped all of the experts of our era. Only severe autism was
diagnosable in the 1960′s and before. In that Era the times were such
that between an education that stressed the basics and discpline that
was "strict" and the fact we were not "Autisitc" all played to our
Advantage. No one was there to tell us no! (Nno diets or pills to play
with either)

Today my friends and I have met online and discovered we all picture
think (autism) and our Thought process has never been in print before.
No matter what language we speak the autism and its development
milestones have been the same for all of us. If autism were to be
taught in a tradtional classroom we would need a picture chart as well
as a number line and alaphebit on the class room wall.

Modern autism has known of us for years and prefer we dry up, If they
admitted to us ther epedmic might dry up. When modern Aspies find us
online only about one third of them know what we are about and relate
to us. I was once hailed as the next Temple Grandin (wrote Thinking in
Pictures) until I was outed. BTW our anthropology of Aspies is in the
Gay Spectrum as well. That gave us an advantage of a social group to
relate autism to, We are ever so thnakful we turned out gay.

Most of us do traditional lives drive and think autisitcally and
normally. Most of us live and work and learned via our splinter skills.
Splinter skills are areas of instant genuis and obession for us and
also our learning hallway. Modern Autism discourages splinter skills in
its "wisdom" .

>From Rich Shull author Pre Rain Man Autism (I-universe) and inventor of

the Turing Motor.  (Humor/comment, Don’t expect to see this book or
others like on autism read lists. )

Old Autism Gave the world the computer via the efforts of Alan Turing
(1912- 1954)

I started a group awhile ago and decided it’s time to look for members-
a lot of people have come and gone so I know there’s at least some
interest in the subject.    maybe if there are more members it will
be more active.   see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EvidenceBased/

(plus, I think I need to hear from more people who like hard data!)

–
—
Kate, http://systems.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/advantages-of-formula.html
Mom to Ursula (10), Sage (7.5), Benno (4!!)    Nothing is more
conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.  ~
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Looking for a thinking moms list?  see
<http://listserv.uts.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/parent-l>

"Ilena Rose" <il…@san.rr.com> wrote in message

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> Yet another of Barrett’s lies circulated by the Quack Team.

I may be reading this wrong, but in both posts, which are the same, you
stated:

"We also have an Education fund, and Explantation fund as well as the one
Schaezler mentioned here …

the one to pay my legal expenses after the Appeals Court overturned the
Superior Court’s verdict that I had a probability of prevailing on my libel
suit against O’Leary."

Now, when you said "we", I presume that the term included you. And, it sure
does appear that you had a legal expenses fund. If the contributions to
Humantics did not fund that, where did the money come from, since it sure
looks like you are claiming that it did?

My 20 week old baby boy has been passing loose green stools for about 6
weeks. They have a foul smell, and he suffers with smelly wind too. The
advice has been ‘see how it goes’.

He will often suddenly cry out as if in pain, but in another minute
seems perfectly fine. Also, he doesn’t like lying on his back to sleep.

He was born by emergency C-Section at 36 weeks. Could he have a
bowel/abdominal problem?

Any advice would be appreciated as I am so concerned that as time goes
on, things could be getting worse.

Thanks.

 Even given up by Germany, not used in USA, yet still used in UK, hows that
for profits before health?

http://www.whale.to/m/bcg7.html
Dr. Buchwald also describes the largest vaccine trial ever carried out: from
1968-1971 the World Health Organisation carried out a large field trial to
test the BCG-vaccine. It was a test model to eradicate tuberculosis on this
planet (while reaping a few companies multi-billion dollar profits). In one
area comprising 309 villages about 364,000 people were vaccinated against TB
while another area of roughly the same size was left unvaccinated. The
results however caused great consternation among vaccination experts: in the
vaccinated area there were more cases of TB than in unvaccinated area. In
Germany it took the STIKO (Permanent Vaccination Commission) 27 years to
acknowledge the field trial and to remove the BCG-vaccine from the list of
"recommended" vaccines.–Dr Buchwald MD

 http://www.whale.to/a/yaz22.htnml.htm
"The fact is that sooner or later, Andrew Wakefield will be exonerated, his
theory will be accepted and a vaccine-autism connection will be proven. As
the New Year comes around, Wakefield’s research is being duplicated in
prestigious centers in the United States. In addition, viral culture results
are expected soon from the National Institutes of Health laboratories.
"–[letter BMJ 2005] F. Edward Yazbak,