What physical signs does it mean when your feet suddenly become smelly?

Many people have the problem of smelly feet, but the degree of foot odor is different for everyone. Most people's foot odor is very small, and they can be cured by washing their feet frequently. However, many people's feet odor is very strong, which will not only affect themselves but also make people around them unbearable. There is a situation where the feet did not smell originally, but suddenly they become smelly for some unknown reason. Now let's talk about the body signals that feet suddenly become smelly.

Foot odor is a natural phenomenon for the human body to eliminate toxins. Foot odor has almost become a patent of modern teenagers, because modern children have been eating a lot of meat and fish since childhood, which has caused a large amount of acid toxins to accumulate in the human body since childhood. By the time they reach adolescence, the acid toxins have accumulated to a certain level and the human body's antibodies have become stronger and are able to eliminate these acid toxins. The body will then begin to detoxify. Since the ankles are the lowest part of the human body, acid toxins are most likely to accumulate there. When the human body begins to eliminate these acid toxins accumulated in the ankles, foot odor or athlete's foot will appear, especially for some children who do not eat vegetables at all. Their feet odor is almost like a corpse's odor and is extremely smelly. This kind of foot odor will naturally disappear as long as they do not eat chicken, duck, fish, meat, beans or other acidic foods for a period of time, so that the human body can eliminate the acid toxins accumulated in the body or ankles.

Causes of foot odor:

1. Humid environment:

The soles of your feet are a sweaty environment. There are more than 600 sweat glands per square centimeter on the soles of the feet, which is 2 to 4 times more than other parts of the body. There are a total of more than 250,000 sweat glands that can secrete nearly 500 ml of sweat a day. In addition to water and salt, sweat also contains lactic acid and urea. When the moisture content is high, it is very conducive to the growth and reproduction of bacteria and mold.

2. Hot and confined space:

When shoes are worn tightly and have poor ventilation, in addition to increasing moisture, the pH value on the skin surface will change from the original pH 4.4 to around pH 7, and carbon dioxide gas will be released. This environment is most suitable for the growth of certain bacteria on the soles of the feet.

3. Bacterial reproduction:

Because of the combined effect of one or two factors, bacteria grow on the skin of the feet. These bacteria can decompose the keratin of the skin and the urea and lactic acid components in foot sweat to form various metabolites with bad odor.