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Hi my name is Salicylate. Glad to meet you.

I am very popular in your products. I love to block the action of your Guaifenesin. You see I am the only enemy that Guai has. Guaifenesin likes to take up all the *parking spaces* in the receptors of the proximal renal tubule of your kidney to make you purge those phosphates, but I can sneak in and park there too and stop the phosphates from leaving your body. How about that! I am a sneaky peat. I don't want you to get well using Guai.

Want to know my secret? I hide in your toothpaste, your dental floss, your facial tissues. Sometimes I am an Aloe. Other times I am a Mint. Other times I hide in your lipstick as Castor Oil. Bet you did not know I hide in your vitamins too as rose hips, bioflavinoids and quercetin. I can also hide in your massage oil.... how about that! You say you smoke?.... well I hide in your cigarettes at Menthol. I get real sneaky too, when I hide in your lip balm as camphor.

I'll really get you with you mouthwashes, deodorants, chewing gums, nasal sprays, your breath mints, razors and your shaving cream. I'll hide in your shaving cream too. I can hide in all of these products as camphor, castor oil, mint, spearmint, peppermint or wintergreen oils. You say you have a cough and use cough drops. Well then I hide there too as eucalyptus oil. Oil is a neat way for me to hide. Sometimes I hide as an extract. Wow! Bet you didn't know that.

You say you like to walk barefoot on your grass. I'll get you there too. My favorite hiding place is in the leaves of the grass...especially when they are wet because I am even more potent. How about when you do your dishes by hand every day. Do you have cuts on your hands and fingers? If so, I'll get you! I hide in your dish soap as Aloe Vera, Lavender, ylang-ylang, Patchouli, green tea extract and other neat plant names.

How about your sunscreen? I am hiding there too as oxyl-salicylate, homosalate and aloe. One of my favorite names is witch hazel. I hide there in your toner. Sneaky? Yes! One of my favorite tricks is to hide in your facial tissues and toilet paper as Aloe.

My biggest fear is that folks continuing to go to the Fibromyalgia Website and reading all the Salicylate Links will expose me. They may even find out about my hiding places by checking dictionaries or using a Google Search Engine to identify me. They may buy the Book "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Fibromyalgia" by R. Paul St. Amand, M.D. and Claudia Craig Marek. Oops! Then I will really be exposed! Folks will read it and learn just how I work to hinder the Guaifenesin Protocol.