Handol Treatment Experience in Humans:

Haldol (haloperidol) is Not indicated For HD

Haldol accelerates the death and impairment of brain cells by down regulating the necessary expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor BDNF. Interestingly researchers are studying ways to up regulate BDNF as a treatment for HD.

As a reader of this HDL site you may have more current information than your health care workers. Be gentle but persistant with them. Help make this the last generation to suffer from Haldol.

By: Jerry Lampson HDL 04Jul-2001

• BDNF Rescues Brain Cells
  
• Haldol decreases BDNF: Risperidone,
• Haldol Causes Cell Death : Induction of reactive oxygen species in neurons by haloperidol
• Haldol Causes Memory Impairment
  
  

http://www.mentalhealth.com/drug/ click on "Haldol" Find Contraindications: ... lesions of the basal ganglia .... (HD is lesions of the basal ganglia.)

Haldol has the devastating side effect of mimicking HD. Unknowing doctors may react by increasing the Haldol dose. The side effects can be irreversible.
Also see the Physicians Desk reference:

For the devastating effects of Haldol in nursing homes see Nursing Home Report. Use your browser search search function to find the many references to 'haldol' in this long document.

Should a neuroleptic be required see: TZB Comments on this article:

===From: Sean -- Subject: Haldol -- Fri Jul 6 04:06:46 2001 GMT===

What really erks me with drug so dangerous and the evidence to the contrary of its effectiveness to the disease why doesn't our HDSA at least put amendments to the manual or publish possible precautions to the drug on their website.

Dr. Wheelock did have Haldol on the top of her list of drugs for chorea.Dr. Wheelock is Director of the new Center of Excellence at UC Davis. When I questioned her about Haldol and HD, she said that believes it should be used with discretion but that it is more effective than the others (like Xyprexa) for chorea. I know that our local neurologist (Director of the new Center of Excellence in San Diego) is still prescribing Haldol -- Steve and I had given her a bunch of the information on Haldol from Jerry's Lighthouse...Maybe it has to be an official pronouncement from the AMA...

===From: Gayle -- Subject: Haldol -- Thu Jul 5 18:29:11 2001 GMT===

Dr. Vicki Wheelock at the Convention in the session on "Overview of Medications" for HD said that any Dr. who looks in a medical textbook at "Huntington's Disease" will see: "prescribe Haldol". So we may be fighting this 'til the textbooks are updated... (or send an update sheet on HD w/current info on meds to drs -- don't know how much that would cost.)