Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

May 24, 2000 by Linda Lazarides  
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Some causative factors

  • Transmission of infective agent through contaminated growth hormone preparations and possibly through food.
  • The possible potentiating role of pesticides and other foreign chemicals, and nutritional deficiencies remains to be investigated.
  • Medications containing bismuth may cause a similar syndrome.

A patient given a bismuth preparation for 15 months developed an encephalopathy resembling Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease but recovered when the bismuth was discontinued. Bismuth preparations are commonly used in the treatment of gastritis. Von Bose MJ et al: Encephalopathy resembling Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease following oral, prescribed doses of bismuth nitrate. Br J Psychiatry 158:278-80, 1991.

Information compiled by Linda Lazarides
Naturopathic Nutritionist, Author, Educator

Linda Lazarides is Course Director of the School of Modern Naturopathy and author of eight books on health, nutrition and naturopathy.

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