Trimethylaminuria: Fishy Odors in Children

Abstract

Humbert et al.¹ have described a six-year-old girl who periodically had a fishy odor associated with increased excretion of trimethylamine in her urine. The three cases reported below occurred in a boy with an offensive fishy odor and trimethylaminuria, both of which disappeared when fish and eggs were removed from the diet, a breast-fed male infant with a similar odor apparent when his mother ate fish or eggs, and a female sibling of this infant with similar symptoms while breast feeding.Case ReportsCase 1. A six-year-old boy was referred because of an offensive odor on his skin and in . . .