Hello all.
Doctor said to give my 15 years old brother Madopar (he has parkinson-like syndroms)
I read that it mustn't be given to people under the age 25. I'm interested, in detail - what exactly will happen if it is taken by a person under 25?
Hello all.
Doctor said to give my 15 years old brother Madopar (he has parkinson-like syndroms)
I read that it mustn't be given to people under the age 25. I'm interested, in detail - what exactly will happen if it is taken by a person under 25?
I'm not medically qualified, but I understand it is because it might interfere with bone development in a young person. Could your brother get a second opinion?
Better check that....sometimes drugs are not recommended simply because they have not been tested on that particular group. Ex: our grandchild, aged three, had every kind of seizure but the Medtronic implant device had only been tested on people between 12-55 so it wasn't recommended. We discussed it with his seizure doc, however, and after the team discussed it, they implanted it (that would be off label) and it was the first done on a cold that young. Really successful. Just to let you know there are a variety of reasons for not using a med. why are you using that drug? Rare for symptoms in one so young. I would suggest you get a second opinion and a panel of all his cellular nutrients. What kind of doctor said that?
Did his doctor check for Wilson's disease? Wilson's disease is a genetic copper hoarding disease and causes a early onset Parkinson's syndrome.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilso...
Or they need to do a genetic test for Parkin gene mutations. Though in the following article it names Hispanics to be most at risk for Parkin induced parkinsonism.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/205...
Either way, for Wilson's disease or idiopathic Parkinson's the best herb in town is curcumin:
"Reduced expression of ATP7B affected by Wilson disease-causing mutations is rescued by pharmacological folding chaperones 4-phenylbutyrate and curcumin."
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/199...
Curcumin and Parkinson's (it is a whole page about curcumin and PD studies):
google.com/webhp?sourceid=c...
Best wishes for your brother.