MEBO PATM : Prof Sekine

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PATM Research Paper

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Yoshika Sekine, PhD, Professor at Tokai University, Japan, President, Society of Indoor Environment, Japan, along with a team of scientists carried out research on PATM Syndrome . We are highly thankful to all of them for giving their precious time to researching and exploring PATM Syndrome.

On April 14, 2018, the Founder and Executive Director of MEBO Research, Maria de la Torre, asked Prof. Sekine to help present his work to raise awareness throughout the globe from the MEBO Annual Conference & Meetup held in Savannah, Georgia this year.Our most sincere thanks to Prof. Yoshika for creating a PowerPoint presentation and providing us with his research paper on the study . We have shared this in many forums through platform of MEBO . The research paper was in Japanese language so MEBO arranged to translate the PATM Syndrome research paper in English language with the help of Director of Community Outreach and Strategy , Mehmet Ali.

Again Sir, thanks you very much for working on this syndrome. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you believe there is anything I can do to support your work.

Research paper is property of Prof. Yoshika and their co-authors and is translated and presented in the MEBO sites with their expressed consent. We want to raise awareness throughout the globe about PATM syndrome using this effort of Prof and his team of scientists. I hope this information is helpful to other scientists and inspires future research into PATM...

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The MEBO Research community around the world is most grateful to researcher Professor Yoshika Sekine, for carrying out a much needed study into PATM and for publishing a paper on his findings (in Japanese). In addition, we are most grateful to Professor Sekine and his colleague, Dr. Yasuhiro Konishi, M.D., of the Konishi Clinic in Japan for presenting a classic case of PATM in the Japanese TV show "World Astonishing News", as noted in a post in this blog, "Japanese Study: Elevated petrochemicals in PATM". This research discusses the petrochemicals found in skin gas analysis of sufferers of this syndrome. You have provided our international community with information we can now use in our Raising Awareness Campaign, and for this, we are profoundly grateful!

‘An exploratory study on “people allergic to me” syndrome based on measurement of trace gases released from skin surface and microbial species in nasal cavity of a patient’

Abstract

There exist some people who claim his/her body odor provokes allergy-like reactions of people in their near vicinity, which include sneezing, runny nose, cough, itchy eyes, and red eyes. Such a diathesis, called “people allergic to me (PATM)”, has been gradually recognized in other countries. However, the term “PATM” has been hardly heard in Japan, and there have been no reports focusing on PATM in academic journals so far. After receiving a request for advice from a male subject, we conducted a medical interview, measurement of trace gases released from human skin surface, measurement of volatile chemicals from the subject’s underwear, and microbiological test of the nasal cavity of the patient. The results showed that greater amounts of chemicals, such as toluene and xylene, were detected in skin-gas samples from the subject than in those from a control subject. Moreover, some chemicals, such as hexane, propionaldehyde, and toluene, which showed relatively high levels of emission from the subject’s skin, were also detected in the underwear of the subject. The microbial species that was isolated from the nasal cavity of the subject with the highest abundance was Staphylococcus epidermidis (Bacilli; Bacillales), which is known as a resident skin flora. In addition, Arthrobacter phenanthrenivorans (Actinobacteria; Micrococcales), which releases a ditch-like smell, was cultured on isolation medium, and its presence might have a relationship with the PATM condition. Furthermore, Rhodotorula mucilaginosa (Basidiomycota; Sporidiales), which is a fungus that is known to cause red water scale in bathrooms/washrooms, was isolated from the nasal cavity of the subject. To the best of our knowledge, the isolation of this latter species from the human nasal cavity has not previously been reported. Taken together, there is a possibility that PATM is not a product of patients’ imagination but represents a genuine disease that has yet-to-be-investigated.

Citation:
KAWAKAMI, Yuji & SEKINE, Yoshika & KIMURA, Keita & TODAKA, Michihito & ODA, Hisayuki. (2018). An exploratory study on "people allergic to me" syndrome based on measurement of trace gases released from skin surface and microbial species in nasal cavity of a patient. Indoor Environment. 21. 19-30. 10.7879/siej.21.19.

Online link to the full publication: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324134401_An_exploratory_study_on_people_allergic_to_me_syndrome_based_on_measurement_of_trace_gases_released_from_skin_surface_and_microbial_species_in_nasal_cavity_of_a_patient