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You are here: Home / Dog News / San Juan Island is Only Place in US Where Dogs Are Trained to Sniff Out Parkinson’s Disease

San Juan Island is Only Place in US Where Dogs Are Trained to Sniff Out Parkinson’s Disease

July 31, 2017 by Seattle DogSpot Leave a Comment

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A New Tool to Fight Parkinson’s Disease

KING 5 reported last week that a dog trainer on San Juan Island is teaching dogs to use their strong sense of smell to detect Parkinson’s Disease.

Dogs Detect Parkinson's Disease

Photo from Parkinson’s Canine Detection Project.

Lisa Holt introduced scent training to her dog training business about 5 years ago. A couple of years ago Nancy Jones, one of her scent training clients, approached her about training dogs to detect Parkinson’s after reading about a former nurse in Scotland who determined that Parkinson’s patients had a “distinctive, musty scent.”

Last year, they organized a program to train dogs to smell sebum, which is secreted through the skin around the head and neck of people with Parkinson’s.

So far, the results look promising.

About 8500 tests with 9 dogs over the past 16 months resulted in a success rate of 85 to 95%.

This could be a potentially game changing milestone in treating Parkinson’s. Currently, by the time a doctor diagnoses someone with the disease he/she cannot offer any effective treatment.

If physicians use dogs for early detection of Parkinson’s Disease it would “provide an opportunity for doctors to add years, maybe decades of quality time to patients’ lives.”

Jones, whose husband has Parkinson’s, said “If those dogs could detect the disease long before you had a symptom it could be a miracle.”

You can learn more about this groundbreaking work check out this article in the San Juan Island Update.

You can also follow the program’s progress on the Parkinson’s Canine Detection Prpject’s Facebook page.

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