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- From: nadel@attatash.aero.org (Miriam Nadel)
- Subject: Re: Offensive BO
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:30:03 GMT
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- Coincidentally, I read Wendy's posting just after reading Siegfried Kra's
- _The Three-Legged Stallion_. Which is a collection of rather interesting
- medical stories. One of them involves a fastidious woman who suddenly
- developed the smell of dead fish. It turned out that she had a metabolic
- disorder which resulted in trimethylamine being excreted in her urine,
- producing the odor. She was treated with metronidazole hydrochloride to
- break down the TMA and put on a low choline diet (no soybeans, peas, eggs,
- fish, liver, kidney) which got rid of the odor.
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- Miriam Nadel
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