do you know if it was used in spraying of infra-red paints on the warhead and missile body?
that is very helpful if triethylene glycol is the same thing
Listed on here as "harmful" :
http://tcieurope.eu/en/catalog/B0496.html
Well OSHA doesn't seem to be very helpful.. at least when it comes to Triethylene Glycol.
http://www.osha.gov/dts/chemicalsampling/data/CH_273615.html
One other though occurred to me. my stepfather worked at y-12, the plant that makes virtually all of the nuclear warheads in the US and was exposed to tricoethylene (sp?) and possibly beryllium and likely would have exposed the whole family to it. I can't find any information on this chemical or exposure effects, all I know is that my stepfather has nueropathy in his legs and had esophageal cancer and my sister was born with a cleft palate which are supposed to be side effects to exposure. but I can't find any resources about it other than forums talking about using it as a degreaser. I'll ask my doctor about it later and see if he has any test to check for it, if anyone finds anything that may point to the symptoms of exposure to it, let me know.
No signs of inflamation. I had a doctor who was sure that I had that, but they couldn't find any signs of it other than the pain and psoriasis.
He also decided that it was all caused by inflammatory bowel disease and that it was an imbalance with the bacteria and funguses that live in my intestines. his treatment made things worse. which seems to always be the case, I get put on some new medicine and it seems to work for about a month, then things get worse and stay that way.
My first thought ran to psoriatic arthritis. It can kick like a mule if you have it and it can cause pain in the sternum and ribs. I would assume they have done an ESR or C-reactive protein test to check for inflammation?
Good Luck to you.