Subject: RE: Tendonitis

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 96 21:03:20 CST

On Sun, 17 Mar 1996 07:48:54 -0700 (MST)  Peter Goering wrote:

>Now comes last week, I'm visiting with my veterinarian friend, and he 
>tells me that WD40 contains DMSO which has been getting a lot of 
>attention in the medical literature. Seems there might be something to 
it.

That is really strange!!!  We use DMSO in the bonemarrow transplant lab 
where I work (son, don't EVER quit your day job).  It's use is very. 
VERY, closely monitored.  I am suprised it has found its way into such a 
widely used commercial product.
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From: Peter Goering <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 08:51:36 -0700 (MST)

> widely used commercial product.
Franklyn, et.al.,

As a quick aside to this, I have a friend here (Frank Etscorn) who 
developed the nicotine patch (his first royalty check was for several  
million!!! and couldn't have happened to a nicer guy). In the course of 
his research, he was experimenting with DMSO as a carrier agent for the 
nicotine. Well, he accidentally spilled some on himself and since he 
doesn't smoke, and therefore had no tolerance to the effects, this 6'6" 
250 lb man was instantly on the floor vomitting and breathing fast. It 
was 3 hours before he could get up and push his bicycle home.It 
certainly nearly killed him and gave him a healthy respect for DMSO's 
carrier ability.

Pete Goering
Out in the Wilds of the Middle Rio Grande Valley

"When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather,
Not screaming like the passengers in his car."

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From: Robert Silverman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 12:45:55 -0500 (EST)

I could not find the back issue of Discovery pertaining to DMSO, but there 
was a case a year or so ago of a woman being admitted to a hospital who 
died just before an operation - but the strange thing was, as they were 
prepping her for emergency medical attention, two or three of the 
attending medical staff passed out and suffered various odd side-effects 
for a period of time afterwards.  And I do recall that this woman had a 
strong garlic odour coming from her skin that also had a sheen to it. 
Self-medicating for tendonitis or arthritis?  Perhaps this case has a 
connection to the allergic reactions mentioned in other e-mail responses.  

Sorry that I can't find the issue, but I believe it was around April 1st 
of last year or the year before.

Might be worth finding before self-medicating. 

Tara