Hi all,
Just thought i'd relay this on to you.
It's from our local Parkinson's group in the little newsletter they mail out to the members.
Anyway, it says there was an entry in a recent issue of the journal NEUROLOGY that links allergic rhinitis statistically with Parkinson's Disease.
I just thought this interesting given the fact that so many of us experience a significant drop-off or even curtainment of upper respiratory symptoms once gluten free along with other food allergen removal.
It's been thought for a long time now that diseases such as PD are caused by inflammation, so this would seem to fit into that theory.
Don't forget that the overall immune response has an effect as well.
Remember that persons with 5 food allergens seem always have chemical allergies as well, so I would suspect that airborne allergens would also be a problem for them.
Hopefully, we'll be hearing more about this very soon.
Yours, Luce
Finding of allergies related to Parkinson's
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That's interesting.....My Sister has Parkinsons and Ms....Are you saying that people that have alot of allergies are predisposed for this or people with Parkinsons have this or may get it.....My Sister has alot of allergies. I'd like to read that Article. Love Oma
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Hi Oma,
I just got clarification in the online Parkinson's Society news thingie about this. Apparently, the regular news services haven't made it clear what the study actually did, making it sound as though one's chances of getting PD were much higher if one has a history of lots of allergies to pets, molds, etc.
Turns out that the actual 20 yr study of about 196 people compared two groups, one of whom had Parkinson's, and the other of the general population but without PD.
There results simply were that, in the PD group, these persons were much more likely to have had lots and lots of allergic rhinitis.
So, it's just saying that when a person develops PD, they have more environmental allergy symptoms. They are NOT saying that people in the general population with lots of environmental allergies are alot more likely to later develop PD, but somehow, that's the impression various news outlets had apparently left their readers to believe.
Soo..this doesn't really tell us anything about a cause or causes of PD, but the thinking is pretty well established that it's a combination of genetics and environment. Where have we heard THAT before?!!
Oma, I hope that this clarifies it for you.
Yours, Luce
I just got clarification in the online Parkinson's Society news thingie about this. Apparently, the regular news services haven't made it clear what the study actually did, making it sound as though one's chances of getting PD were much higher if one has a history of lots of allergies to pets, molds, etc.
Turns out that the actual 20 yr study of about 196 people compared two groups, one of whom had Parkinson's, and the other of the general population but without PD.
There results simply were that, in the PD group, these persons were much more likely to have had lots and lots of allergic rhinitis.
So, it's just saying that when a person develops PD, they have more environmental allergy symptoms. They are NOT saying that people in the general population with lots of environmental allergies are alot more likely to later develop PD, but somehow, that's the impression various news outlets had apparently left their readers to believe.
Soo..this doesn't really tell us anything about a cause or causes of PD, but the thinking is pretty well established that it's a combination of genetics and environment. Where have we heard THAT before?!!
Oma, I hope that this clarifies it for you.
Yours, Luce
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