When summer comes, it may not be the hot weather that bothers many people.
“Whose smelly feet? When was the last time you washed your feet? It really stinks!”
It’s really embarrassing no matter such situation happens at home, on the train or in the office.
After all, it stinks not ourselves, but others.
The smelly feet feel wronged. Why do they still stink even if washed and socks changed everyday?
How can we get rid of the foot smell? Today, let’s talk about it.
Why do the feet still stink even if socks changed everyday?
Skin is the largest organ of human body, and countless pores are metabolizing with the outside world.
There are a large number of eccrine glands on the sole of the foot, and the foot has less chance of direct contact with the outside world than the hand, which is relatively clean. Under general clean and sanitary conditions and disease-free conditions, foot will not stink.
The smell of foot odor is bad, but the causes of foot odor are different.
How is it caused foot odor?
The ultimate direct cause of foot odor is the secretion of a large amount of sweat and failure to maintain cleanliness in time.
Foot odor caused by metabolism
In the hot and humid environment, the keratin and lipids on the skin surface of the feet are impregnated, and the skin parasitic bacteria such as bacteria or fungi and other microorganisms multiply, breed corruption, and are easy to decompose the dirt on the skin surface to produce hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, A variety of metabolites such as amines and compound components mix together to produce an unpleasant odor.
Foot odor caused by lifestyle
Living in humid, sultry and closed environment, and wearing rubber shoes and nylon socks with poor permeability while not washing feet or changing shoes and socks frequently, result in poor foot hygiene.
In addition, sports and other factors make the feet sweaty, and sweat evaporation is not smooth, and can not be cleaned in time. In the muggy days, it is easy to breed microorganisms.
Garlic, onion and other spicy heavy taste diet habits, some components can be sweat glands with sweat discharge, while stimulating effect to promote the body sweat.
There are also irregular ways of life such as drinking, staying up late, which can make nervous and endocrine dysfunction.
Foot odor caused by disease
Wearing relatively close shoes, together with mental tension, autonomic nervous dysfunction, increased sweating response to normal stimulation, nerve, endocrine and other factors can lead to hyperhidrosis.
Hyperthyroidism, diabetes, obesity and other systemic diseases cause rapid metabolism, which causes sweat glands to sweat too much.
There are also some tinea pedis, genetic factors, drug factors and so on, may lead to foot odor.
Many people also have some worries: will the foot odor cause beriberi? Let’s check out the answers.
Regular foot odor, can you induce beriberi?
In fact, this question appears right, but in fact wrong.
You need to know that, syndrome is not evidence. Foot odor is only a symptom and appearance, not a disease and cause.
In other words, foot odor is not equal to beriberi.
About that regular foot odor can cause beriberi, to a certain extent, is not related.
Foot odor is caused by many factors, including lifestyle problems and diseases. And beriberi is tinea pedis, fungal infection.
Therefore, don’t worry too much, but the best way is to solve the problem of foot odor in time.
How to prevent and deal with foot odor?
To solve the problem of foot odor, it can be summed up in nine key words: face it, cleaning, keeping dry, frequently change, medical treat, convergence, antiperspiration, disinfection, and sterilization.
Face it: people with feet odor may have a sense of inferiority due to their social influence.
It is necessary to have a correct understanding of foot odor. Some foot odor is caused by diseases, and some foot odor is caused by poor sanitation. Avoid mental stress, treat the sick, no need to worry too much.
Cleaning: keep feet clean and sanitary. Do not share bath towel and foot repairing knife with others, and do not wear others’ shoes, socks and slippers.
Keeping dry: keep feet ventilated and dry, wipe them after cleaning, and clamp dry gauze or soft dough between toes.
Put the desiccant discarded in the food packaging into the changed shoes and socks to make full use of the waste.
Frequently change: frequently change shoes and socks, depending on the specific situation, once a day or more.
Treatment: treat the primary disease, eliminate the cause of disease, control the concurrent focus.
Convergence: reduce the symptoms of sweating, remove the inducement, light diet, reasonable diet.
Antiperspiration: in case of continuous sweating, stop sweating in time and take over-the-counter drugs or drugs according to the doctor’s advice.
Disinfection: when the foot skin health conditions are not good, skin gets moist whitening, redness, signs of infection and other inappropriate circumstances, do disinfection treatment.
Sterilization: if there is beriberi, take sterilization treatment for fungal infection.
It should be noted that due to individual differences and different situations, it is not easy to generalize and follow the doctor’s advice. Please use drugs under the guidance of the doctor.
To sum up, those who want to relieve foot odor,should keep feet dry and sanitary in time, and frequently change shoes and socks. Those whose feet conditions are serious, please follow the doctor’s advice.
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