WHO HERE HAS HEARD OF TMAU?

[BetterDaysAhead]

TMAU (TRIMETHYLAMINURIA) IS A DISORDER WHICH MAKES THE BODY UNABLE TO BREAK DOWN TRIMETHYLAMINE, A CHEMICAL COMPOUND THAT HAS AN AWFUL ODOR THAT SEEPS THROUGH YOUR PORES. ITS BEEN DESCRIBED AS SMELLING LIKE ROTTEN FISH, ROTTEN EGGS, GARBAGE OR URINE NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU SHOWER YOU WILL STILL SMELL AWFUL DUE TO THIS CONDITION WORST PART ABOUT IT IS THAT THERES NO KNOWN CURE, ONLY WAYS TO SLIGHTLY MINIMIZE IT WITH DIET

I FEEL VERY SAD FOR ANYONE WITH TMAU NOBODY DESERVES THIS

 

[Medulla]

Do you have it?

 

[BetterDaysAhead]

Do you have it?

NO BUT THIS ONE GUY I KNEW BACK IN COLLEGE DID

 

[Veteran]

How about they just spray themselves with perfume?

 

[BetterDaysAhead]

How about they just spray themselves with perfume?

PERFUME WILL ONLY STRENGTHEN THE BAD ODOR IT WONT HELP

 

[Apollo]

@HanadR6

''As trimethylaminuria is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner, heterozygotes or carriers of only one FMO3 mutation are asymptomatic. The incidence of carriers varies between ethnicities, ranging from 0.5–1% in white British populations to around 11% in New Guinea.69''

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052392/

WTF, Papua New Guinea.

I wonder if Somalis have this? Never heard of this before.

 

[bluebird]

I used to go to school with a girl that smelled awful. I thought she had terrible hygiene but then I thought maybe she has this disease miskiinta, but she smelled like run of the mill BO and I heard they had a fishy odor. It was justvthe strongest BO I've ever smelled in someone (you could smell it from 20 feet away, and it would linger after she left)