Joy Millen can smell herself Parkinson’s disease

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Pets can smell the disease.

and Scottish Joy Milne.

She could smell Parkinson’s disease – years ago.

It’s not just our pets that can smell themselves sick.

Joy Milne from Perth Scotland She discovered that her husband smelled no different when he was 33 years old. Twelve years later, he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

Joy Milne describes the scent as a musky-like scent, which was different from his natural body odor.

Its discovery prompted researchers to investigate what scents it can smell and whether it could be used to identify people with neurological diseases.

Among other things, she was allowed to smell the shirts worn by Parkinson’s disease and healthy people. She was able to identify all the patients, but she also said that one of the healthy ones smelled like a disease. Eight months later, this person developed Parkinson’s disease, the British newspaper The Independent wrote.

The smell is thought to be due to a chemical change in sebum caused by the disease.

Now researchers at the University of Manchester have developed a test that can identify Parkinson’s disease by simply dragging a head along the neck. Their discovery was published in Journal of the American Chemical Society.

Joy Milne believes it is unacceptable that the disease has developed so far before patients receive diagnosis and treatment.

It needs to be caught early, it provides more effective treatment and a quality of life, she tells the paper.

Les Millen passed away in 2015 at the age of 65.