Just wondering?

I worked for a company for 10 years that manufactured tools from steel and there was a lot smoke and grinding that was in the air . I was wondering if there others who worked in steel and gotten PD. Also just wondering what others who got PD what you used to do for work.

[Victor]

Full time Firefighter for 24 years, PD at age 52. I think there's a link to smoke exposure!

[Odette]

This article may interest you, It's about welding fumes and manganese.

medscape.com/viewarticle/74...

Odette

[Odette]

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medscape.com/viewarticle/74...

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[Odette]

You may find it from google with this title under if the link doesn't open it. It seems to ask for registration. I found it just by googling.

Welding Fumes May Cause Early Parkinson-Like Brain Damage

Megan Brooks

[alanrob]

I also used to do a lot of grinding and cutting in my job,mainly stone and mortar,and at times i would remove my protective mask because it was so uncomfortable.

[parkey]

i also worked in a manufacturing plant were i spot welded and didlots of grinding work there 10 years wa never wore a mask

[jazzfan53]

Where I grew up it was all farmland in the 1950s-60s. I know for a fact that I was exposed to the pesticide chlordane (which was later pulled off the market) when I was 7 -10 years old. I was diagnosed with PD at age 49. Who knows what other pesticides were floating around back then.

[Paul_Dineen]

My experience is mostly bland compared to the above comments, yet I have PD. I've basically lived in suburbs all my life and worked as a cubicle dweller (computer programmer) since finishing college.

I was never in the kinds of environments described above, except for a couple of summers around the end of high school and start of college (mid-70's) when I worked at Hewlett-Packard back when they still did manufacturing in the US. One summer was picking parts in the stock room (fairly benign in itself, but still on a large manufacturing site). The other summer was in manufacturing itself, mainly assembling and testing transducers (whatever they are). But, that was at a small satellite site, not the large, main one where I picked parts.