Not sure if I am able to mention a product by name but this is a warning for anyone with PD - my husband had a chronic cough and I bought him Bronco Stop lozenges - he suddenly had a loss of movement completely unable to get out of bed without help and unable to walk - I did not put the two and two together until he took another one for his cough (which I have now corrected with Vitamin B12 1000 ug see another post I have just put on forum) once again unable to walk unaided and legs completely frozen - eventually I got him back to normal but suddenly realised this has something to do with those lozenges they have nasty ingredients and I will be writing to the manufacturers to alert them to the problems they caused but would like to warn any PD sufferers to be very careful and avoid this product.
Thank you for sharing this redhead01 - if it’s okay with you we may forward this onto our research team as a heads up. Do let us know if you are comfortable with this.
Hi there sorry for the delay I did not see that you had replied to my post. Yes please do warn others - I took the product to my GP yesterday and warned him too. On further research I see that the main ingredient is Thyme and Thyme can deplete thyroid hormone - as thyroid hormone can be depleted in PD - I assume that on this occasion his neurological function was disturbed by lack of thyroid hormone - I research thyroid problems so this could be what happened.
I am not sure if I have already posted this as I find this forum website a bit complicated to work around - but my husband who has PD had a dreadful cough for years - it became really serious over Christmas almost threw him out of bed it was so violent - I did some research and gave him 1000 ug of B12 - and cough gone - was told it was reflux - GERD - postnastal drip - no it was a high need for B12 - he was tested and his levels were 680 - top level 800 - I am nutrionally aware so I thought that was a high enough level - obviously the PD is demanding more via the cellular level and the blood tests aren’t really showing the true values - in my opinion - no coughing any longer.