Possibility of research of intractable diseases at a stroke with a confession of women who can distinguish Parkinson's disease from smell

ByDennis Wong

Parkinson's diseaseA new woman on this intractable disease has started, as a woman who lost her husband noticed "there is a smell unique to Parkinson's disease".

UK woman, Joy Milne, can sniff out Parkinson's disease - CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-woman-who-sniffed-out-parkinsons/

A British woman, Joy Milne, died of her husband Les in Parkinson's disease, but he noticed a change in her husband six years before Les was diagnosed as Parkinson's disease. Mr. Joy was originally very sensitive to the smell and he noticed that a subtle change had occurred in Less' smell. According to Joy, "Although it is difficult to explain with words,MuskI smelled like that. "

The situation of the interview received by Joy about this can be confirmed in the movie in the site below.

The woman who can smell Parkinson's disease - BBC News
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-34583642


Mr. Joy noticed that this subtle smell that occurred in her husband came from other Parkinson's disease patients in the hospital and thought that it was related to Parkinson's disease and odor, As reported, researchers seem to have high interest.

Dr. Tilo Kunas of Edinburgh University gathered six Parkinson patients and six healthy people who were not Parkinson's diseases and gathered the T-shirts they were wearing. I asked Joy to separate that T - shirt and judged whether it was a Parkinson 's disease patient or not, and as a result, 11 people out of 12 people got a result to hit out.


However, one judged Joy as "Parkinson's disease" did not suffer from Parkinson's disease and was thought to be the only misjudgment, but eight months after the experiment he suffered from Parkinson's disease It turned out to be. In other words, Mr. Joy was actually all right answer, it was able to smell the potential parkinson 's patients who had not yet developed.

Parkinson's disease is characterized by being undetectable by clinical examination such as blood test, X-ray examination, CT examination, MRI examination, etc. It is known that preventive treatment and early treatment are difficult. However, if it becomes possible to judge Parkinson's disease from an early stage with body odor, there is a possibility that the course of treatment start may be expanded earlier than at present.

Parkinson 's UK, a charitable organization supporting patients with Parkinson' s disease, will start a project to develop a method to determine Parkinson 's disease by examining the exhaled breath and sebum components of Parkinson' s disease patients. Not only the smell experts of food related companies but also Joy will participate in this project.