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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Offensive BO
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.034155.28715@spdcc.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 03:41:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov18.034155.28715
- References: <2510007@hpsad.sad.hp.com> <dank.721766686@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov> <1992Nov17.153003.702@speedy.aero.org>
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- In article <1992Nov17.153003.702@speedy.aero.org> nadel@attatash.aero.org (Miriam Nadel) writes:
- >Coincidentally, I read Wendy's posting just after reading Siegfried Kra's
- >_The Three-Legged Stallion_. Which is a collection of rather interesting
- >medical stories. One of them involves a fastidious woman who suddenly
- >developed the smell of dead fish. It turned out that she had a metabolic
- >disorder which resulted in trimethylamine being excreted in her urine,
- >producing the odor. She was treated with metronidazole hydrochloride to
- >break down the TMA
-
- I can't imagine how metronidazole would "break down" TMA. Metronidazole
- is a drug with activity against certain protozoa and anaerobic bacteria.
- It would stop any odors secondary to infections cause by susceptible
- microorganisms, but I'm hard pressed to think of a metabolic disorder
- it would work against.
-
- >and put on a low choline diet (no soybeans, peas, eggs,
- >fish, liver, kidney) which got rid of the odor.
-
- People taking choline in large quantities as a "smart drug" often report
- this as a side effect (maybe they should call them smelly drugs...)
-
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