I'm curious how breastfeeding can impact later development of PD.

[rebtar]

I'm wondering how many of us were fed formula rather than breastfed? Breastfeeding is supposed to be protective against later chronic disease...

I was exclusively formula fed and my microbiome is at the low end of diversity (I also had a long course of antibiotics (2 months) several decades ago.

[WinnieThePoo]

Sorry. Regular birth and breast fed. PD at 57. A bit late to change anything now anyway

[wifeofparky]

would be an interesting survey

[Astra7]

Formula fed. Lots of antibiotics as a small child.

[Missy0202]

Breast fed and had antibiotics maybe a handful of times throughout my 55 years

[hmm777]

Breast fed, diagnosed at 49.

[jujulini]

I think besides formula- fed, and antibiotics, you can add mercury amalgam fillings, along with other sources of mercury - thermometers and mercurochrome. I was born in 1957, so I was formula-fed, and whenever I got sick, the doctor prescribed antibiotics, didnt matter if it was bacterial or viral. I had a mouthful of mercury fillings, had fun playing with the mercury from broken thermometers, and when I got a cut, my mom put mercurochrome on it. All that was common place. Its no wonder there are so many cases of PD in my generation. And I didnt even mention insecticides.....

[rebtar in reply to jujulini]

Mercurochrome and merthiolate!!! I had completely forgotten that, my mom used that for cuts and scrapes too!

[chartist in reply to jujulini]

I remember coating dimes with broken thermometer mercury to make them look shiny and new and then playing with them as a kid! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Art

[rebtar in reply to chartist]

I remember breaking a thermometer once and touching the mercury.

[jujulini in reply to chartist]

I worked as a nurses aide in the 70’s and occasionally someone would drop a whole dish of thermometers, maybe 20 or more and we would laugh while we tried to pick up the mercury. A friend of mine remembers balls of mercury being passed out to the students during science class. It’s crazy. Now if one thermometer was broken in a building, it would be evacuated and the hazmat team would be called. Mercury thermometers may be banned but the US still hasn’t banned mercury amalgam.

[chartist in reply to jujulini]

When I saw the movie, "Terminator 2" the liquid steel guy reminded me of the broken thermometer on the stove that spilled the mercury in the trough that surrounds the burner and I would push it with my fingers faster and faster around the trough like it was on a race track! That little ball of mercury reminded me of the liquid metal guy after he had been blown into little liquid metal blobs that looked like the mercury ball on the stove and they all rolled together to put the liquid steel guy back together.

Oh, and the reason I broke the thermometer on the stove was because I was trying to heat it up to make my mom think I had a fever so she wouldn't send me to school that day! I think I might have been in the second grade. Kids sure do have an imagination!

Art

[rebtar in reply to chartist]

😆

[jujulini in reply to chartist]

And its the vapors that are the problem, and you probably sent them all thru the neighborhood.

[Madame-Mango in reply to jujulini]

"All that was common place." Yep, as a mid-1950s baby, that describes my experience, as well.

[amykp]

I think that is the problem--for those of us in our late 50s/60's/70's ... wasn't formula all the rage back then? So most of us were probably bottle fed, as well as most of those without PD. So it would be tough to do a population study.

That being said, I was breastfed. My mom was a bit of a rebel.