What's wrong with foot odor? Many people have foot odor for various reasons, especially in summer. Foot odor is a big defect, but do you know what causes foot odor? Can foot odor be eliminated? Let's have a look
What are the causes of foot odor
1. Your feet sweat too much
Everyone's constitution is different, so it's normal to have sweaty feet. However, sweating feet is not only this reason, but may be due to autonomic nerve dysfunction, such as excessive sympathetic excitement caused by emotional tension, or exercise, which will lead to excessive sweating feet, which will cause foot odor.
2. Reasons for shoe cabinet
It may be contaminated with bacterial dandruff and contaminated by adjacent dirty shoes to infect fungi. If you wear such shoes, you may suffer from beriberi. You should scrub them with disinfectant or add desiccant regularly to remove the moisture.
3. Reasons for shoes
In fact, foot odor is also related to the tightness of shoes. When the shoes are tightly worn and the ventilation is poor, in addition to the increase of moisture, the pH value of the skin surface increases and carbon dioxide gas will be released. This environment is most suitable for the growth of some bacteria on the soles of the feet.
4. Disease
You know what? Many foot diseases can cause foot odor, such as tinea pedis between toes and other skin diseases.
5. Socks
In fact, the air permeability of socks will also affect foot odor. Often wearing some socks with poor air permeability is easy to induce foot odor.
6. Foot hygiene
Or some people do not pay attention to foot cleaning, foot skin temperature, humidity formed by sweat, dandruff and composition microorganisms reproduce on the surface of foot skin. If you do not pay attention to foot cleaning, more will contribute to its smell.
7. Reasons for diet
Diet also has a great relationship. Due to bad eating habits, your body is acidic, and acidic constitution is easy to sweat.
How to dispel foot odor
1. Promoting water metabolism according to acupoints
Acupoints: you can press more yinlingquan acupoints on the upper edge of the inner side of the calf and near the junction of the thigh, Fenglong acupoint at the middle point of the connecting line between the outer side of the knee and the ankle, and Fuliu acupoint at the width of about 3 horizontal fingers 2 inches upward on the rear edge of the inner side of the ankle.
Efficacy: yinlingquan point is helpful to nourish the spleen and stomach, diuresis, improve lower limb edema and foot sweat, Fenglong point can dispel the evil Qi of cold and dampness in the feet, Fuliu point can replenish kidney yin and treat hot flashes and night sweat.
Method: press the finger abdomen until slightly sour. Press the above acupoints for 5 minutes each time, 1 ~ 3 times a day, every day.
2. Soak feet with salt and tea
Soaking feet with salt in tea helps to prevent mild foot odor. Experts said that tea itself has the effect of convergence and adsorption, and can indeed absorb odor. Patients with foot odor can soak their feet with boiled tea water (there is no limit to which kind of tea). Through the cleaning process of soaking their feet and the convergence effect of tea itself, they can inhibit foot odor. Another saying is that when tea water is boiled with salt, it can also remove foot odor when used to soak feet. He explained that tea itself has the effect of convergence and adsorption. Adding salt only helps adsorption. What really has the effect of odor absorption is tea. Coffee grounds have the same astringent effect as tea. Putting them into shoes can also help absorb sweat and odor, and improve foot odor.
Add 25g tea and a small amount of salt into the foot washing water. The amount of water should be just below the feet. Soak and rub the feet together for 5 ~ 10 minutes. When the weather is cold, you can keep heating water in the basin and prolong the soaking time appropriately.
3. Wormwood and pepper in water
Wormwood leaf is mainly used for dehumidification and antipruritic, warming meridians, hemostasis, pain relief, etc. Beriberi is mainly caused by fungal infection, so soaking feet with wormwood leaves has a certain auxiliary effect on the treatment of beriberi. Pepper can relieve itching and kill insects. Soaking feet with pepper water also has the effect of treating beriberi.
So wormwood and 20 pepper can treat foot odor.
4. Soak feet in ginger water
Ginger is sweet, pungent and warm. It has the effects of dispersing cold and sweating, warming stomach and stopping vomiting, sterilization, analgesia and anti-inflammatory. It can also relax capillaries, enhance blood circulation, excite intestines and stomach and help digestion. Fresh ginger can be used for 'wind cold evil heat, typhoid headache, stuffy nose, cough, anti Qi, anti vomiting, expectorant Qi'. Dried ginger is suitable for 'cold abdominal pain, moderate evil cholera, fullness, wind evil disinfection, skin gas accumulation, and stopping spitting blood'.
5. Wash feet with salt and ginger water
Washing feet with salt and ginger water can cure beriberi to a certain extent. The methods are as follows: put an appropriate amount of salt and several pieces of ginger in hot water, heat them for several minutes, wash your feet when they are not hot, and scrub them for several minutes. It can not only cure foot odor, but also feel relaxed and relieve fatigue. Before going to bed, use a basin of hot water to add an appropriate amount of salt and a piece of ginger, soak your feet and scrub for 5 to 10 minutes, and continue to wash for several times. The foot odor and foot sweat can be relieved, and it can also prevent and treat the chapped skin on the sole of your feet.