TCE: Possible cause of Parkinsons

[docjleonard55]

Interesting article

yahoo.com/news/rates-parkin...

[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...

[Rhyothemis]

You might want to consider including the chemical name, trichloroethylene as well as key words like dry cleaning and carpet cleaners in your post so that people can find the post when searching. I don't think the search engine indexes terms in replies.

[condor39]

Over the years I have become wary of “possible causes” and “promissing cures”, they come at regular intervals. The most we can say is that we don’t know, and await more reearch.