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This is REALITY.... Kids are DYING ladies....

Good Morning. THIS post and the need to "Go Green" to avoid deaths is what my life has been about for 30 years as a Registered Nurse and for over 6 years as an Executive Director now with Melaleuca....

HOW sad for their family that Kelly learned (too late) the dangers of typical household cleaning and carpet cleaning chemicals.... I saw this time after time when working in the hospital ladies... THIS danger is REAL....

Linda,FCLS, CMAS, BS, RN aka BizNurse

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A Closer Look at What Ailed Jett Travolta

Fri., Jan. 2, 2009 4:55 PM PST by Natalie Finn

Kelly Preston has said that she believes toxic cleaning products in her family's home caused her son's health problems early in life.

Jett, her 16-year-old son with husband John Travolta, died suddenly Friday morning after suffering a seizure while on vacation with his familiy in the Bahamas. He was hospitalized when he was 15 months old with Kawasaki disease, a rare illness that mainly affects young children. It's treatable but can have unforeseen complications, including lasting damage to the heart.

The boy's body will remain at Rand Memorial Hospital in the Bahamas pending an autopsy.

The direct cause of Kawasaki disease remains unknown, but some studies have shown a possible link between the disease and exposure to carpet-cleaning chemicals or living in an area close to a stagnant body of water, according to research gathered by Children's Hospital Boston's Kawasaki Disease Program.

Studies also found that the disease is reported more frequently among children from higher socioeconomic groups, of which Jett Travolta was certainly a member. (Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys announced last month that his 6-year-old son, Baylee, has been diagnosed with Kawasaki disease.)

In 2002, Preston described to Montel Williams what the family went through when Jett got sick.

"Jett's whole immune system shut down, and he got really sick with high fevers, 104 and 105," she said. "I kept taking him into the doctor and they didn't know what was wrong with him. He developed a rash on his body, swollen lymph glands—it was horrible."

Doctors at Children's Hospital Los Angeles ultimately diagnosed Jett with Kawasaki disease.

"And lo and behold, they don't know how you acquire it, and lo and behold, there were tons of kids in the ICU with Kawasaki's," Preston said. "I'd never even heard of it. And they give you a questionnaire with about 50 questions on it. I went and talked to everybody— every single parent—and everyone had cleaned their carpets in the last couple of weeks. That was one of the questions. So I don't know what the correlation is...I'm just saying we need to know more."

Because of Jett's asthma and allergies, Preston told Williams, "We don't have any chemicals in the house. We're 90 percent organic, though there's some canned foods, a little bit of junk food here and there."