Re: Re: A Link between Allergies and Parkinson's?

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Mayo Clinic did studies on allergic fungal sinusitis. I don't think it was this

specific doctor, if those are the studies you are talking about.

If you are talking about those studies, I don't think the results were actually

that chronic sinusitis is from mold and I don't remember them saying anything

about asthma. If you have links to some different studies that say that, I

would be very interested.

But some studies including the Mayo Clinic study have found that they were able

to culture fungi from the sinuses of 90-96 percent of the washings of sinus

patients. However, the normal controls had almost as much fungal growth!! The

difference was that in the chronic sinusitis patients, they had high

eosinophils, while the controls did not. So it is not fully understood what the

cause of the problem is, although higher general exposure to mold could be part

of it it does not fully explain it. As you all know, some people have worse

reactions to mold than others in general, and certainly the same is true in

sinusitis.

There is an excellent discussion of this here:

http://www.sinuses.com/fungal.htm

This also discusses treatments for chronic sinusitis that is caused from fungus.

Lori