Guardian article about potential surge in Parkinson’s cases due to household chemical.

[Ratzkywatzky]

theguardian.com/commentisfr...

[pvw2]

This is rather puzzling since TCE is considered a carcinogen and dry cleaning switched from TCE to TCA by the early '80's.

[Ratzkywatzky in reply to pvw2]

That’s good, sounds like it can have a delayed reaction though and still used in America though not so much in Europe? Sounds like it has a lot of other applications.

[park_bear]

TCE is one. Permethrin is another:

Permethrin has been thought to be non-toxic to humans and has therefore ended up in common household insecticides such as "flea bombs" . It is also available impregnated into clothing, and as a spray for that purpose. Workers who handled permethrin without gloves had quadruple the risk of acquiring Parkinson's versus workers who did use gloves:

sciencedirect.com/science/a...

Protective glove use and hygiene habits modify the associations of specific pesticides with Parkinson's disease

“Pesticides have been associated with Parkinson's disease (Parkinson’s disease), and protective gloves and workplace hygiene can reduce pesticide exposure. We assessed whether use of gloves and workplace hygiene modified associations between pesticides and Parkinson’s disease. … Protective glove use modified the associations of paraquat and permethrin with Parkinson’s disease: neither pesticide was associated with Parkinson’s disease among protective glove users, while both pesticides were associated with Parkinson’s disease among non-users … permethrin OR 4.3.”

Also paraquat:

healthunlocked.com/cure-par...

[SonarsMom]

This raises two red flags for me. When I was a teenager in the 60's, I spent a summer working in a dry cleaning factory where I actually handled the chemicals...no gloves or face masks back in those days, so maybe that's the beginning of my much later dx of PD. Conversely, the year before I was dx, I went on safari to Africa. Prior to leaving, I sprayed all of our clothing with permethrin; so I both touched/inhaled the chemical plus wore it on my clothing for two weeks. Maybe the first caused the PD to reside dormant in my system and the second launched it. Who knows?

[FawnLily]

I have several pieces of Bugs Away clothing from Ex Officio. Don’t wear them often. Guess it’s time to get rid of them.