SOMETHING STRANGE was happening inside LeeAnne Walters’s Flint, Michigan, home. During the summer of 2014, twins Gavin and Garrett, then three, each broke out in a skin rash that wouldn’t go away. By November, 14-year-old J.D. had stomach pains so severe, he couldn’t climb the stairs. He was out of school for a month, but three ultrasounds, a colonoscopy, and a CT scan found nothing wrong.
Daughter Kaylie, then 18, lost clumps of her long brown hair in the shower. LeeAnne and her husband, Dennis, both 37, lost hair and suffered rashes, dizziness, and headaches. LeeAnne even lost her eyelashes. “We had all these puzzle pieces but still couldn’t figure out what was going on,” says LeeAnne, a former medical assistant.
By winter, the family’s health problems were getting worse,…
