Here are a few more good links guys: http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/977865667.html http://www.centeru.com/library/householdCleaning.php http://www.ghchealth.com/forum/health-dangers-of-phenols-found-in-household-cleaners-discussion-195.php One of the keys in treating CFS and FM are DE-STRESSING your environment.... of emotional stresses and chemical stresses, MAKING yourself get exercise (even when you don't feel like it), and eating balanced diets with good nutritonal support. I WISH there were a cure (and yea, I KNOW MLMs who TOUT they can CURE anything ... :-( ), but for now we need to focus on PREVENTION! When someone suffers from FM, I've seen miraculous results with just de-toxing homes.... NO chemical cleaners at all can be brought in. Vinegar, Baking Soda, Saltand tea tree oil can be used as cleaners, and just that often substantially lessens symptoms... Hope this helps! Linda/FCLS, CMAS, BS, RN BizNurse@satx.rr.com

This is a good forum. The natural products are very good at helping many with illnesses. MonaVie is also a natural organic product that is help with Fibromyalgia. Check out some of the testimonials. http://www.mitsuccess.com/testimonials.asp Check out the PDF file and list of problems that MonaVie is helping. It sounds very painful and like there is not much hope for a cure. The natural products can help your body heal itself. Best wishes to all. Myra

Hi, I thought everyone might find this helpful. This is only a few of the products that people should not be using, especially if they have fibromyalgia. For more information, you can go to http://demler.healthyhometour.com Below is a list of common households products that contain known carcinogens and/or neurotoxins: Carcinogens: are chemicals that cause cancer. Neurotoxins: are chemicals that adversely affect the nervous system reducing emotional well being, mental alertness, coordination and other functions associated with intelligence. From: The Safe Shoppers Bible, David Stein & Samuel S. Epstein, MD, Macmillan, 1995 Lysol disinfectant (all scents) English Leather Deodorant Allenbs All-Purpose Cleaner Chaps Deodorant Formula 409 Ban Roll-on Tilex Soap Scum Remover Viadent Toothpaste Ajax Cleaner Ultra Brite Toothpaste & Gel Zud Heavy Duty Cleaner Crest Tartar Control Allenbs Dishwasher Liquid Colgate Danw Sureshot Arm & Hammer Toothpaste Danw dish Detergent Reenuzit Air Deodorizer Joy Bon Ami Foam Cleaner Palmolive Dishwasher Liquid Fantastik All-Purpose Cleaner Pine-Sol Broad Spectrum Murphy Oil Soap Liquid & Spray Pledge Household Cleaner Pine-Sol Multi-action Spray Simple Green Prevail Cleaner w/Ammonia Bathroom Duck Spic & Span Pine Cleaner Sunlight Dishwashing Liquid Scotts Liquid Gold Drano Pledge Lemon Bissel One-Step Floor care Glass Plus Dial 5 Min. Wax Kmart Aerosol & Liquid Cleaner Minwax (7 kinds) Radiator Glass Cleaner Behold Furniture wax S.O.S Ammonia Glass Cleaner Endust S.O.S. Vinegar Cleaner Formbybs Lemon & Almond Spray Windex Glass Cleaner Old English Lemon Furniture Polish Shout Aerosol & Stick Gillete Foamy Skin Conditioning Spray & Wash Stain Remover Speed Stick Deodorant Kleen King Aluminun & Copper Cleaner Secret Deodorant DiDi7 Right Guard R2 Spot Lifter Shoe Goo Old Space Depend-O Blue Toilet Cleaner Lady Speed Stick 3M Aerosol Spot Remover Irish Spring Deodorant Nearly all Home & Garden Pesticides Faberge Deodorant Many Cat Litter Tone Skin Bar 2 Cocoa Butter Jasons Soap Soft Soap Dove Soap Bars Shield Soap Caress Body Bar Ponds Dry Skin Bar Camey Palmolive Skin Bar Cepacol Mouthwash Lever 2000 Listerine Original & Cool Mint Lifebouy Olax Jergens Liquid Soap Scope FORMALDEHYDE Nine billion pounds made each year in the USA May cause: Cancer, birth defects and genetic damage Will cause: Skin reactions, heart palpitations, headaches, depression, joint pain, chronic fatigue, chest pains, ear infections, dizziness, loss of sleep, aggravated coughs, cold and trigger asthma. Found in over 300 products in the home. From: The Mayo Clinic, Department of Dermatology, Rochester, NM. February, 1998. For more information call: 507-284-2511 Products Containing Formaldehyde: Aerosol Saddle Soap Foam (Best Foods) Ahoy Green Liquid Detergent ( Great Atlantic Pacific) Air Maid Suds Liquid Dishwashing Detergent (Jewel Companies) Hard-Parker Germicide for Surgical & Dental Instruments Allano Hand-Body Lotion (Amway Corp.) Coifiture Italienne Shampoo (Max Factor & Co) Amway L.O.C. High Suds Liquid Detergent Concentrated Conditioning Shampoo (Walgreen Labs, Ink) Amway Metal Cleaner Abrasive Cleaner Bestol Mouthwash (Ethna Chemicals) Amway Micropolymer Floor Wax Blue Cross Mouthwash Amway Rug & Upholstery Shampoo Liquid Detergent Buckleybs Formocresol disinfectant in gangrenous pulp conditions (Crosby Lab Anchor Caldix Veterinary (Anchor Serum) Buckleybs Zink Oxide Resins Ansochrome Developing Outfits Fixer (GAF) Preventative Carterbs Mucilage (Carterbs Ink) Ar-Ex Hypo-allergenic Shampoo Avamist Carterbs Writing Inks Alberto-Culver Shampoos (all) Bromidrosis Powder (Scholl) Compound Powder Cardinal Mildew Stop Mildew Canol Foot Joy Foot Bath Cicoliquid Paste (Parkerbs Ink) Canol Foot Powder C-2 Whitt with Chlorophyll & X-ON Clairol Shampoos Toilet Bowl Cleaner (C-Z Chemicals) Dawn Detergent Colgate Palmolive Shampoos Deslat Flower Dial Shampoo (Armour-Dial, Inc) Detrex Eccosize Liquid Sizing Dr. Schollbs Foot Magic Foot Spray Detrex Deodorant Edwal Hypo Chek Photography DeWitt 3060 Cleaner, Disinfectant Elmers Waterproof Glue (Borden) Conditioning Shampoo (Walgreen Labs. Inc.) Daragen Protein Shampoo (Owen Labs, Inc) Dermacal for Dandruff (California Pharmacal) D-Odor Tabs Air Freshner & Deodorant (Circle Chemicals) Dr. Scholl Shoebs Doedorizer Spray Fungicide Fum-O-Motor Incubator Fumigant (Hilltop) Endew Spots Mildew (Clarke, John Co) Fun O-Lac Incubator Fumigant (Hilltop) Epoxystrip (Bech Eq.) Grand-O-Lac Incubator Fumigant Formaidegen for Fumigating Poultry (Vineland Poultry) Formide Fumigant for Brooder Houses, Poultry Houses (Glad-O-Lac) Formica Floor Shine Floor Wax (American Cyanmid Co.) Mycomist Fungicidal Deodorant, Spray for Shoes (Gordon Labs.) Formula 21-HD Wire Stripping Formula (AMP, Inc.) Gordonbs Formalin Solution Scented Deodorant Formocresco Disinfectant, Dental (Crosby Labs.) Hypo-check Photographic Supply (Edwal) Hance mouth wash Astringent Hilltop Finished Vapo-Mor Spray Helena Curtis Cream Rinse Jewel Lemon Detergent Liquid Veterinary Respiratory Decongestant (Hilltop Fun) More Incubator Fumigant Horton & Converse Zinc Chlorid Mouthwash Hilltop Poultry House Fumigant Dishwashing Detergent L.C.U. Plasticote auto Polish (Livinstone) L.C.U. Boat Bright Boat Polish (Livinstone) Imperial Royal Kleerblu Starch (Exbach) Inosaptol astringent, Deodorant (Clarilo) Jean Nate Shampoo (LCR Mfg. Division) Kleanwell Mouthwash (Am. Druggist) Kobo Deodorant (Detrax) Koloform Santining Fluid in Barber & Beauty Shops (Koken) Kot-O-Forms Rug & Upholstery Claener (My-Do Chemicals) Lam-O-Sheen Windshield Cleaner (St. Paul, MN) L.O.C. High Suds Liquid Detergent (Amway) Kodak Prehardener SH-1 Lennex Cough Syrup Manowar, McAlier Mildew Stop (Cardinal Prod. ) New Fix Cavety Dentin (cosby Labs) Park Lemon Detergent Liquid Potatox Liquid Disinfectant fungicide Paraiormol Paste for Hypersensitive Dentin (Crosby Lab) Parko Antistatic Plastic Polish (Park Chem.) M.P.-10 Mildew (Chemical Processors) Dishwashing Detergent (Park Corp.) Nuair Space Deodorant (Lester Labs) Parson Smut Oil Solution Fungicide Perma-Seal (ConsolidatedChemicals Inc.) Parson Formaldehyde Solution in treating, Grain, Seeds & Potatos Plasticote I.C.U. Auto Polish (Livinston) Parson Potalox Liquid Disinfectant Fungicide Thoroughbred Thrush Medicine-External, on horns-veterinary (Man-O-War) Smut-Off Solution Fungicide (Parsonbs Chemicals) Ped Skin Fungicide (G & W) Permatine Resin (M.A. Knight) Resin Compounds Rawleigh Floral Air Fresh Revlon Aquamarine Rawleigh Waterless Hand Cleaner Pom Liquid Laundry Starch (Hyco) Rawleigh Antiseptic Solution Richard Hudnut (Warner-Lamber Res. Inst) Shineze Floor Finish (Chemical Assoc. Inc) Simoniz Electric Polisher Floor Wax (Textize Chemicals) Smartec Nail Polish (Cameo, Inc.) Steridol # 3 Coolant, Germicide (Dolge) Roundybs Sanabakm Saddle Soap (Best Foods) Suave Shampoo with Egg (Helen Curtis) Sun Fresh Mildewcide (Chemical Processors) Subrose Cream Deodorant Sun Pac Mildewcide (Chemical Proc,) Dishwashing Detergent (Jewel Co) Sunoco Radiator Sealer (Sun Oil) Synaral Suds for Happy Dishes Liquid Thamodent Toothpaste (Leeming-Paquin) Veritas Vaginal Cream (Vertius Products) Uncle Sam Breezywick USP Catalyst Powder (US Plywood) Vapor-Mo Spray Respiratory Decongestant-Respiratory (Hilltop) Vasco Preseervative VI-Jon Wave Set Velvatough Balsam Hair Conditioner (Jewel Home Shoping Service) Worthmore egg Shampoo (Walgreen Labs.) Watkins Mouth Freshner Weldwood Plastic Resin Glue Glue Resorcinol (US Plywood) Weldwood Waterproof Resorcinal Whiff with Chlorophyl & X-ON Toilet Bowl Cleaner (C-Z chemical) Whilhold Plastic Resin (Wilhold Glues, Inc.) Wilhold Waterproof Glue Wizard Wick Zoma Foot Powder (Wisc. Pharm.)

Hi, guess I'm one of the newest members. Although I have not been diagnosed with fibro, I have many other diseases that the toxins in our homes love to jump on, so I have done my best to remove those toxins. I love the list posted by zbfree. I didn't realize how many of our household products had toxins, and I thought I was educated. Anyway, I have epstein-barr virus, neurological disorders, neuropathy, cancer (cancer free), history of stroke, etc. I will be going thru my house again and removing any of these products. Oh, I guess my nic might be useful for some people on this forum might know me. "alamomoney" Talk to u later.

Hi Patsy,

 

I'm sorry to hear that you have to struggle with so many illnesses.  My thoughts and prayers are with you.  Thankfully you have already taken steps to remove toxins from your home.  Do you feel it is helping?  People reading this forum may want to know?  If you ever want to chat, please feel free to PM me.  Also, here is my forum as well.

 

http://community.adlandpro.com/forums/14870/ShowForum.aspx

 

Take Care,

Alana