The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 13

C0UK1LK-J0URJNAL TIMES, LOUISVILLE, KY. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 14, 1968 A 13 Saving Scientists Probe Restaurant 'Malady' Won Ton Connoisseurs Not So Fortunate Cookies 1 mmm mi ikiiih. i iiminiiiiwnmwmwM, I i 1 iiilttSfiMr Hint SV5 'i face muscles, weeping, numbness and even fainting. And the pity of it he still craved Chinese food. He determined to seek the cause.

He began eating Chinese food for breakfast, lunch and dinner, eating and weeping, eating and fainting, one by one eliminating ingredients. Soy sauce, Chinese tea, salt, cooking wine all were suspected. Pluckily, Schaumburg ate until the search was narrowed to won ton soup and hot and sour soup, both of which made him light-headed and all. He now moved to the laboratory. With Dr.

Robert Buck and "a lot more of us, working at night in our spare time," a new test solution was prepared: A filtrate of won ton soup. It made him sick, too. "On sampling the i- individual ingredients." he said, "the dagger of suspicion pointed at MSG." Next, doctors alternately fed MSG and an innocuous white powder that looked the same to three vounteers who sometimes had the same problem. "The days of Walter Reed are not past," Schaumburg points out. Walter Reed (1851-1902) was the Army doctor who gave volunteers yellow fever to prove that mosquitos transmitted the disease.

Two of Reed's volunteers died. And every one of Walter Reed Schaum-burg's three volunteers came down with Chinese restaurant syndrome 15 to 25 minutes after swallowing MSG. "It only takes about half a teaspoon," he said. A light sprinkling, the amount used by most housewives, would have no effect. The effect only strikes susceptibles, although, he believes, they are "far more common than realized I've found 10 on our faculty of 800." Schaumburg and Buck still want to make sure it's the MSG itself and not some contaminant in it.

"I'm pretty sure now it's not," he said. "Despite cuts in the budget of the national institutes of health, basement research will give us the answers." His solution, meanwhile, to his Chinese food passion? He eats it. "I'm going to eat it tonight. I just avoid won ton or soups like it, or I eat them with lots of crackers so the MSG is absorbed more slowly. "Besides, I'm used to the syndrome.

I kind of enjoy it. When I first had it, I thought I was having a heart attack. But now it's almost like turning on. It's not really unpleasurable, once you know you're not going to die." Must there be a new federal label? "Caution: Chinese food may be hazardous to your health." Another doctor suggests that to The New England Journal. That might be discriminatory.

Japanese food has been accused too, when heavily MSG'd. Also, Schaumburg added, "some Jewish cooks put MSG in stuffed cabbage." By VICTOR COHN Las Angeles Times-Washington Post Service WASHINGTON Science marched on yesterday, leaving a trail of discarded won tons. It discovered the cause of the Chinese restaurant syndrome, the strange malady that sometimes grips the partaker of a Chinese meal. The cause is the flavor enhancer MSG monosodium glutamate, also sold as Accent or Ajinomoto according to two researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. Chinese cooks around the world use MSG by the sackful.

Still Craved Chinese Food The syndrome (medicalese for a set of symptoms) first surfaced in May when Dr. Robert Ho Man Kwok reported it to The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Kwok is a senior investigator at the National Biomedical Research Foundation at White Oak, a Washington suburb. Soon 10 more letter-writers told the medical journal that they had the same burning sensations, eye pressure, chest pain and other symptoms.

One was Dr. Herbert H. Schaumburg, assistant neurology professor at Albert Einstein, who underwent tightening of United Prist Inttrnition.l LETTING OUT a war whoop as she is named 1968 Miss Universe is Martha Vasconcellos of Brazil. First runner-up was Miss Curacao, Anne Marie Praafheid. U.S.

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