Proposal for a Workshop on Body Odor Producing Metabolic Disorders (including TMAU, aminoaciduria, and others) and Infectious Conditions.

                                                  i.      Because currently medical doctors consider body odor treatment to be cosmetic medicine, and because physicians tend to misdiagnose intermittent body odor as a mental health condition.  It is necessary that the international medical community be further educated in these matters, so they may recognize the toxic state of TMA in the digestive tract, blood, urine, and other bodily secretions, since TMA has a pH of 9.8.  Why would a toxic condition not be considered a medical condition?

                                                  i.      In addition to TMAU, other metabolic disorders, including but not limited to aminoacidurias, indicated by an abnormal amino acid profile, may result in body odor.

                                                  i.      Strong body odor and intermittent body odor alone should be considered a potential medical condition, and private and national medical programs should cover the diagnostic and treatment expenses for these conditions.

                                                  i.      The international community presently treats body odor related conditions the same way mental illness was treated in the past. 

1.      The mentally ill patient was “hidden away” from society forced to live in isolation to not disturb mainstream society.  Mentally ill patients are no longer locked up in attics, cellars, and insane asylums, but are instead provided with mental health treatment covered by insurance policies and national health programs.  However, patients with metabolic diseases producing strong body odor are currently directly or indirectly “hidden away” from society forced to live in isolation to not disturb mainstream society.

2.      Medical treatment for patient suffering from a medical condition resulting in body odor is not covered by private insurance policies or national health programs, thus forcing the patient to live in the same isolation as the mentally ill were forced into in the past. 

3.      Since mental illness is now no longer seen as a social taboo and body odor is currently treated as a social taboo, the patient with intermittent body odor is “safely” diagnosed with the more socially acceptable but inaccurate diagnosis of mental illness.

4.      This incorrect diagnosis actually produces further mental distress possibly leading the patient to suicidal tendencies.

Therefore, a Workshop on Metabolic Disorders and/or Infectious Diseases would serve to enlighten the international medical community of the basic human rights of suffers of these metabolic and/or infectious diseases as stated in Article 5, Article 7, Article 22, and Article 25 of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly of the United Nations resolution 217A (III) of 10 December 1948.  http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html.  The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) also protects individuals who have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities…or a person who is perceived by others as having such impairment.  http://www.ada.gov/cguide.htm#anchor62335