Gulf War Syndrome Researchers Blame Sarin Gas And Toxic Exposures

[allan]

To: Veteran Issues by Colonel Dan <VeteranIssues@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [VeteranIssues] Gulf War Syndrome Researchers Blame Sarin Gas and Toxic ExposuresDate: Aug 31, 2009 1:47 PM

Note: Now? Why don’t the VA Claims people know this, and approve more claims? ColonelDan

Gulf War Syndrome Researchers Blame Sarin Gas and Toxic Exposures

Lourdes Salvador August 26, 2009

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/116167

Toomey and colleagues, researchers at the Boston Veterans Administration Healthcare System, confirmed that Gulf War deployment is associated with subtle declines of motor speed and sustained attention as influenced by exposure to toxicants during deployment.

Toomey found that exposure to sarin gas released during the Khamisiyah destruction is correlated with long-term reduced motor speed in veterans that has not resolved after 10 years. Self-reported exposure to these toxicants is also significantly associated with attention deficits.

Ten years after the war, deployed veterans are still in poor health and perform significantly worse on cognitive tests than non-deployed veterans. Gulf War veterans complaints include:

Poor cognition.

Slowed motor function.

Memory Loss

Chronic Fatigue

Skin Rash

Hair Loss

Headache

Muscle pain

Gastrointestinal Disorders

Cardiovascular Changes

Chemical Sensitivity

These health alterations point to potential long-term, permanent impairment from toxicant exposure.

The symptoms of Gulf War veterans are analogous to a group of multi-system illnesses increasingly seen in the general population, notably: multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and fibromyalgia (FM). These illnesses all share a common pattern of initiation and, thus, they may share a common etiology (cause) in long-term, permanent impairment from toxic exposure.

Reference

Toomey R, Alpern R, Vasterling JJ, Baker DG, Reda DJ, Lyons MJ, Henderson WG, Kang HK, Eisen SA, Murphy FM. Neuropsychological functioning of U.S. Gulf War veterans 10 years after the war. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2009 Jul 29:1-13. [Epub ahead of print

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[timetowinarace]

"deployed veterans are still in poor health and perform significantly worse on cognitive tests"

This AND a TBI. No wonder I'm so messed up.

I'm glad I have the TBI diagnoses. It will be a few years yet before GWI is recognized as a compensatable illness with the VA.

[Testvet]

time, I would not count on the VA to ever recognize this new "study" it is the same thing that the 1975 SIPRI report shows from chemical weapons exposures in German veterans of the Riechs WW2 chemical weapons program and the 1994 NIH Report on chemical weapon shows many of the exact same symptoms DOD and the VA both are aware of these previous reports, but due to the cardiac aspects of it they have chosen to ignore them due to financial liabilities how many of the Gulf War vets are going to develop heart problems that can and would be linked to this? there are 500,000 veterans and already 25% are SC, if they have to SC cardiac problems the numbers are likely to rise to 400,000 in the enxt 20 years costing them billions never going to happen