The woman smelled Parkinson's disease

Meet Joy Milne, a woman with a special sense of smell. Scottish scientists recently discovered that Joy Milne could actually smell the smell of Parkinson's patients.

People can diagnose the disease through scent

Milne 65, who lives in Perth, says she has long been able to smell many smells that others don't feel. Song until recently she connected the connection between a "like musk" smell with Parkinson's disease.

The first time Milne noticed this was when she began to smell her husband, Mr. Les, a busy doctor, began to emit a characteristic odor. Milne just thought it was a smell of sweat. But 6 years later, Les was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease."His smell changed and it was difficult to describe. Not abrupt, but only ignorant of the smell."

Joy Milne.

Until Milne attended a meeting of British Parkinson's charity organizations, Milne realized that Parkinson's patients had the same musky odor, and she began to have a connection. Milne exchanged what he felt with some scientists, and they decided to find out .

The experiment was conducted by the University of Edinburgh. The researchers handed T-shirts to six Parkinson patients in a day, after which the shirts were delivered to Milne. She must smell the shirt and point out who is Parkinson's patient. And Milne's diagnoses were accurate to the chill - she determined exactly 11/12 shirts.

With the shirt Milne "diagnosed " wrongly - the shirt was worn by a healthy person, Milne insisted that there was a " warning" through the scent. And she was right - this person was diagnosed with Parkinson's 8 months after the study.

"This is really impressive," said Tilo Kumath, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh . "We need to study this phenomenon further."

Researchers believe that the smell Milne pointed out could lead to groundbreaking discoveries in dealing with Parkinson's disease, an extremely difficult diagnosis.

Scientists from the universities of Manchester, Edinburgh and London are currently conducting experiments to determine whether Parkinson's patients have emitted different smells on the skin. Based on this information, testing for Parkinson's patients may be completely changed, simply taking a test sample on the skin.