At 2:42 AM -0400 9/24/97, Walter & Susan Owens wrote:

>Also,  I learned in an immunology course last year that exposure to diesel
>fuel can exaggerate an immune response by as much as a thousand-fold.  We
>have a Honda, and it has the ability to recirculate the inside air in the
>car without the outside air coming in, and that's the car I drive.  A couple
>of years ago, my husband had been driving my car and he likes the outside
>air in, so had changed the vent setting.  My daughter and I were driving
>that day down a usual route, but we both started smelling the fumes from
>outside, and I turned the vent off after we had probably driven a couple of
>miles.  A few minutes later, though, my daughter turned white as a sheet and
>was nauseous and became unable/unwilling to move on her own initiative.  Her
>occupational therapist (where we were going) did cranial sacral therapy on
>her, and that got the color back into her lips, and she started moving again
>about thirty minutes later and was fine about an hour later.


Alternately, have you considered that this might have been carbon monoxide
poisoning?


- HH