According to oncologist, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences Igor Nekhaev, many diseases have specific smells. They appear due to dysfunction of the digestive tract, liver, kidneys, endocrine system, or during inflammatory processes.
A patient with severe cancer may smell like stale meat. In addition, cancer patients sweat more. Dogs perfectly capture the specific smell of people with cancer even at an early stage, the expert says.
– Cancer patients sweat more, they may develop an unusual smell, for example, of stale meat. And this is also typical for advanced cancer,” said Igor Nekhaev in an interview with Lenta.ru.
The fact is that during the fight against cancer, the body produces tumor necrosis factor, which increases body temperature. To reduce body temperature, the body starts the thermoregulation system, and the person begins to sweat. With sweat comes the smell. In addition, one of the signs of cancer is a low temperature that lasts a long time, and this also contributes to increased sweating.
In diabetes, the smell of acetone is characteristic. It is caused by the accumulation of ketones in the blood and their release with sweat, urine, exhaled air.
Also, changes in the perception of habitual odors should alert a person, this is a reason to visit a doctor.
It can smell bad from a person suffering from the following diseases:
- Diabetes mellitus and related pathologies;
- Thyroid diseases;
- Disorders of the gastrointestinal tract;
- Diseases of the liver and kidneys;
- Infection by bacteria, microbes, parasites and fungi.
With kidney failure, the smell of urea and ammonia appears. This is due to the accumulation of protein breakdown products in the blood, which should normally be excreted in the urine.
The smell of milk whey is characteristic of gout, when the metabolism of uric acid is disturbed. Gout is a metabolic pathology characterized by damage to the joints and kidneys. She is treated by rheumatologists, arthrologists and nephrologists.
There is a large group of genetic diseases accompanied by the appearance of unusual odors. So, “fishy smell” may indicate a genetic defect.
Phenylketonuria leads to the appearance of a mouse smell, which is caused by excessive accumulation of phenylalanine metabolites and their excretion in sweat and urine. This is a hereditary disease associated with a violation of amino acid metabolism.
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