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Source: Project Gulf Impact
Thousands in Gulf Suffer from Misdiagnosed Skin Lesions
Symptoms experienced by Gulf residents may be the result of exposure to chemical dispersants
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana area residents have begun showing up at clinics and hospitals with mysterious scabs and pustules covering their extremities, as reported from residents to non-profit relief organizations in the Gulf. (See Plaquemines Parish highlighted in red on map, above left)
Told 'scabies' and 'staph' causes unknown
One thirty-three year-old woman, who wished to remain anonymous, has disclosed to Project Gulf Impact that, upon seeking medical advice at a clinic, she was told she had scabies. Hours later, she was told by an area hospital that she had a staph infection.
The woman was treated with a shot of penicillin and Elimite cream, a topical agent for the treatment of scabies mite infestations, and an oral antibiotic.
In addition to the lesions, the woman reported aching bones, weight loss, stomach pains, inflammation in her leg and sties developing in her eyes.
Other residents have shown up at local doctors and area hospitals reporting similar symptom
According to area residents suffering from the mysterious rash, patients feel like they are not being given proper medical treatment.
Doctors have told area patients they are suffering from scabies with no clear diagnosis and from Staphylococcus infections with no underlying cause.
Exposure to chemicals, such as those being used to break down oil in the region, like the dispersant, Corexit, may be the cause of such infections.
Corexit is an agent that has been proven to break down lipid membranes that cover and protect human skin.
Human skin is composed of a thin layer of lipids and Corexit, by nature, breaks down these organized barriers into smaller individual molecules allowing the barrier to become permeable to pathogens. The skin irritation could be caused by prolonged exposure to these chemicals and could break down the ability of the body to fight off infection.
Read more of the above article at Project Gulf Impact: http://www.projectgulfimpact.
Also see: Censored Gulf news: Calls from sick flood radio station. Tx pipeline explodes
10 ways to aid Gulf victims in need right now and how to survive being poisoned
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Urgent: Gulf Emergency Aid Need Now
“The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.” - Thomas Merton (American and Trappist Monk, Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968)
Contact:
Human Helping Human of Louisiana and the Earth for information about your community holding a fund-raiser to help people in S. Louisiana: Phone or email Laila Bicksler - 504.957.1533, laila.bicksler@gmail.com.
Gulf Coast Barefoot Doctors for information about urgently needed technical support and supplies for Toxic Survival Kits they are distributing. Email gcbarefootdocs@gmail.com
E. Harris if you are pregnant, or if you know someone pregnant and wanting to relocate from the Gulf Coast in need of financial help to leave, please phone Emily Harris on her cell phone, 501.733.2409 or email touche.mobile@gmail.com. Please contact Harris today if you or your church has extra space for a pregnant woman to stay. This is urgently needed for women wanting to leave.
Remote Aerial Medical to volunteer for medical duty for the thousands of S. Louisiana people asking for help - see www.ramusa.org or email laurak@ramusa.org.
Thank you. - Deborah
Deborah Dupré, with post-graduate science and education degrees from U.S. and Australian universities, has been a human and environmental rights advocate for over 25 years in U.S., Vanuatu and Australia. Support her work by subscribing to her articles and sharing the title and first three paragraphs linked to this article at its original Examiner site. For a more just and peaceful world, see Dupré's Vaccine Liberty or Death book and Compassion Film Project.
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Photos: Project Gulf Impact, Wikepedia, Intel Hub Radio
Comments
Thousands??? Come on now...You lose credibility really fast when you start throwing out wild numbers such as that. Stay real. One case is all I have seen with the scabies or whatever it is..Show us pictures of the Thousands....There are none. People please keep it real..enough of our folks along the coast have panicked from the Doomsday theories and crap...Please..Quit scaring our residents... Be responsible..
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