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Perelandra Health Watch Bulletin
GULF OIL SPILL RESPONSE
by Machaelle Wright
Perelandra, Center for Nature Research
Since the onset of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a number of you have asked me for suggestions regarding what you can do. I've suggested a couple of things: (1) go to the Gulf and help with the cleanup and/or (2) review your current lifestyle and eliminate even more of your dependence on oil for fuel, energy and products. Here's a new suggestion that is very timely and important. Those living near the Gulf and working on the shoreline or in boats to contain or clean up the spill are starting to experience serious health reactions from exposure to the oil. Primarily, they are having respiratory problems and mysterious skin rashes.
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Oil Spill Health Effects
From Esquire magazine
(June 21, 2010):
Merle Savage was an "outdoors person" who found joy in the big things Mother Nature had to offer.
She climbed Alaska's mountains
and hiked the Grand Canyon. But
then the big spill hit, and there would be no more climbing, no more hiking, and very little joy.
As a cleanup worker in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez disaster, Savage says she breathed crude- and dispersant-laced mist for weeks. She was healthy for age fifty - she looked healthy - but soon experienced crippling health problems that have lasted for two decades: coughing spells, violent diarrhea, pneumonia, obstructed blood vessels. Her liver cirrhosis onset baffled doctors.
"We were all coughing and vomiting for months," says Savage, who had no prior history of drinking or smoking and did not wear a respirator during the cleanup. "We thought it was the flu. Exxon told us crude oil was non-toxic and we believed them."
She has limited legal recourse - a court sealed Exxon's medical records until 2023, she says - but now, twenty-one years later, her primary concern is not herself. Savage's "quest," and that of several environmental activists and locals taking a hard look at the aftershocks of the 2010 disaster, has become protecting the health of her modern counterparts in the Gulf of Mexico, who have been exposed to a variation of the same dispersant - and even more toxic oil. Because she doesn't want any of them to live her waking nightmare, and no one wants the BP spill to become for local volunteers and fisherman what 9/11 became for workers at the World Trade Center.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gulf-oil-spill-health-effects-062110
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Perelandra Crisis Response
Here's how you can help: Send / gift anyone you know who
is living near the oil spill areas, or working out in the Gulf to
contain the oil, the following Microbial Balancing Solutions:
Immune, Lymphatic, Respiratory and Integumentary. They
need all four MBPs right away. We will ship directly to the
person(s) and we will include a note letting them know that
you have gifted these MBPs to help them with the health
issues they are currently facing from oil exposure. This
suggestion falls under our Crisis Response Policy and we
will extend you a 25% discount on the MBPs for this situation.
(If you're actually someone living in the affected Gulf area or
working in the oil cleanup efforts, you get the 25% discount
also.) When you place your order, be sure to let us know these
MBPs are going to someone you know on the Gulf coast so
that you can get the crisis discount and we'll know to enclose
a gift card when shipped.
Families and children not working directly in the cleanup but
living in the area are also experiencing respiratory problems
and strange rashes. So if you know a family living in the area,
consider gifting them the Gulf Oil Response Kit, as well. And
to be even more supportive, call or email your "giftees" to let
them know what the MBPs are and how they can help. Impress
on them that their health will be compromised for years and
they will need to take these MBPs twice daily for all those years
in order to strengthen their body against their exposure to
the oil.
The Ultimate Gift
These people are getting clobbered financially, thanks to
the oil catastrophe. For the sake of their health now and in
the future, please consider gifting the Gulf Oil Response
Kit to any of your giftees whenever they run out of the MBPs
until they can get back on their feet financially. Physicians
who are experts in this kind of toxic exposure are in the Gulf
area now to answer questions and look out for long term
problems. In several reports I've seen, these physicians are
saying that they are concerned about future potential serious
lung damage and cancer besides dealing with the serious
respiratory and skin problems they are seeing now. So your
gift and your commitment to as many individuals and families
as possible could make a huge difference in the quality of the
rest of their lives.
To health and reaching out to others in their time of need.
Disclaimer
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this paper
is complete and accurate. However, neither the publisher nor the author are engaged
in rendering professional advice or services to the individual reader. The ideas,
procedures and suggestions contained in this paper are not intended as a substitute
for consulting with your physician. All matters regarding your health require medical
supervision. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for
any loss, injury or damage allegedly arising from any information or suggestion in this
paper. The opinions expressed in this paper represent the personal views of the author.
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