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You know Janice, I have a similar story where in l976 I worked in a Media Centre at a local college with printing presses. Every night we had to clean the machines with Methanol (right spelling?) to remove the ink. When I got home when and if I had a nap I would wake up and found that I could barely breathe. Because I smoked, I blamed it on the smoke but perhaps it was the fumes from the solution. Any comments? Fleurette 58/2 At 01:07 PM 3/18/97 -0500, you wrote: >------------------------ > >I would appreciate anyone's comments regarding any correlation between >persons having PD and also having an extremely sensitive reaction of their >nervous system when exposed to certain chemicals, pesticides, and herbi- >sides. > >Last weekend I was in our Barnes & Noble bookstore browsing through their >Bargain Books (all hardcover books, if that matters). Within minutes I >was aware of a very strong "chemical" smell in the air and apparently >eminating from the thousands of books. My lungs and throat felt very >strange and I thought I might pass out so I left the building and went >home. For the next several hours I felt weak and had difficulty breath- >ing and I trembled all over. The chemical smell of the bookstore stayed >with me for two days. My husband, who was with me, had no reaction; >indeed, he was not even aware of the chemical. > >I have had several similar reactions in the past when I was in a closed-up >house and a Mosquito Control truck went by, spraying insecticide at our >lawns and which immediately seeped into the house. No one else in the >house could detect it but to me it was over-powering. I reacted the same >as described above. The same thing occurred when a "duster" airplane >kept swooping over our apartment complex which was next to farmland, >spraying the crops with, I later found out, a herbicide. > >I have always had the theory that my young-age-onset PD (33) was caused by >my concentrated exposure to DDT as a baby living in a bug-infested >southern state. (Our small house we rented had been dowsed with the >insecticide by the owner - this was in 1944.) > >What I am wondering is could my extreme sensitivity to the chemicals, >herbicides, and pesticides as described above be an indication that my >body cannot absorb the toxicity of these chemicals the way most other >people can? If this is so, wouldn't it help substantiate my theory of the >cause of my YAOPD, and shouldn't the medical researchers be concentrating >on TOXINS as being the cause of this horrific affliction? >___________________________ > >Janice Long (54/20 yrs.) >