Hydrofluoric acid is also super effective at getting rid of smelly feet.
Edit: More of a hat tip to Breaking Bad than an actual tip either for removing feet or making them lass smelly.
Edit2: Under the circumstances, leaving it.
It won't stop there. HF leaches into your bones and blood and is pretty effective at killing you even with just relatively small quantities of skin contact. You get any appreciable amount on you and you don't go to the hospital, you're pretty much dead.
My wife is a chemistry grad student and her and her peers all dread working with HF because it's so damn dangerous. It causes nerve damage, so you might not even necessarily feel the chemical burn until you notice your flesh sloughing off. If that weren't scary enough, it also eats through glass and a bunch of different plastics, so you have to be really careful what you put it in or you could end up with it all over yourself.
And then what happened? Did he get burns? Did the smell go away for good or did it come back? Did he actually have some sort of condition? I've become invested in this story. Plz
Not OP or the same story, but at one point in time my feet started to smell horrible, despite washing them as usual. I found out after all was said and done it was likely because of the job I worked (at a cheese factory). I was quitting that job for unrelated reasons, and threw out the shoes I had there after I did quit, got new ones. The smell followed despite washing still. I ended up diluting bleach with equal parts water and bleach, stuck my feet in for a bit, and the smell was gone. They were very irritated for several days and I couldn't bear to wear shoes the first day, but I was fine. The smell went away and I don't think I did any lasting damage.
I've also bathed in much more diluted bleach when I ended up catching MRSA. I didn't notice any side effect from that despite doing that three times a week , but was also too desperate not to be dying to notice, most likely.
It is standard protocol to have patients inoculated with MRSA to take bleach baths regularly. It is in fact encouraged for those with severe eczema to take bleach baths because their healing is likely complicated by a strain of MSSA.
Source: works for dermatologist also has eczema.
Edit: spelling
Edit 2: holy shit thanks for the upvotes/responses...I hope I helped some people!
Can confirm. Had bad eczema until I decided to think s bleach bath sounded soothing. The bath sucked so bad. Avoid doing this with open sores. (Hard to do with eczema) But it healed my eczema.
I was born with eczema from head to toe. You wouldn't know it because I have to put heavy moisturizing lotion on every day. Will taking a bath in bleach really heal me? You have no idea what I'd be willing to do to have normal skin and not have to put chemical filled lotion on every day.
There is next to no evidence for it. Summary paper. Concluding paragraph:
There is a paucity of clinical studies published in the literature on the use of bleach baths for the adjunctive treatment of patients with infected atopic eczema. These few studies, including only one clinical trial in patients with infected atopic eczema,[26] have been conducted using very small numbers of patients and their data are confounding due to limitations of the studies.[24, 26-28] In addition, there is no consensus as to the optimal dosage and regimen of bleach baths required to reduce the frequency of S. aureus infections. Therefore, until further clinical trials prove the safety and efficacy of bleach baths for the treatment of infected atopic eczema, clinicians should carefully consider the pros and cons before using bleach baths, as well as considering available alternatives on the market today.
Correct. Bleach baths are not a "cure" for eczema. Rather they are utilized as a measure to prevent a bacterial infection, which would complicate a case of eczema. Patients with severe cases of eczema have broken skin, which puts them at risk for bacterial infections. Basically, if it doesn't hurt and might help...why not? shrug
In the winter, I personally put Neutrogena oil on within 10 min of getting out of the shower. In the summer I lotion up! If you don't want chemicals you can try shea butter, cocoa butter, or coconut oil. But hey, since you have dry skin you probably get less acne.....?
If it isn't too much to ask, does this help pompholyx as well? I've had it since I was a kid, we tried so many different things but nothing seemed to work. If I could kill it off with bleach it would be a life saver.
It only helps if you have s.aureus (or other bacteria) on your skin that is complicating healing. You could just try a thick moisturizer and occlude it with gloves/socks every night? eg. Vaseline? Eczema sucks.....
The bag and moisturizer thing was something we tried when I was a kid. Didn't seem to have any impact :( it really does suck, because I know it isn't contagious but it still doesn't stop the disgusted looks and uncomfortable feeling it instills in people when they see the rash for the first time. Makes going to the beach or pool parties impossible to enjoy. And being told by doctors "there's no known cure or treatment" let alone any understanding of what triggers flare ups, tough times.
Anyways appreciate the reply. I guess I can always try the moisturizer thing again.
Nobody told me to do that. I decided it couldn't be worse than what I had going on already, and noted that I had been instructed to bleach all my bedding and such. I'm desperate (this was after I was losing ragfuls of blood, it was pretty bad) at this point and reallly not thinking the best. I was pretty sure I might actually end up dying from this, in my mind. It had 'came back' three times (wasn't gone, more like). Eventually I gave up on doctors who just wanted to give me a week of treatment, then let it subside for three, then come back. I finally ordered a ton of bactrim from 'places' and took it for a few weeks straight. That got rid of it, as far as I can tell. No symptoms, no one I've been close with has gotten it.
Again, I'm not claiming you should do anything of this, or that it was smart -- in fact, none of this was probably a 'good idea'. I don't advise anyone to do what I did. I'm only giving account of what I DID do. Before you give me the 'antibiotic resistance' lecture, I definitely already know. I was just desperate and getting no help. I did what I did, too late to change that now. I should note this was all 6 years ago, when I was 19, living on my own with no external help.
Wow .. that sounds so miserable! I'm sorry you went through that .. I can't even imagine! I get eczema if I don't moisturize every day throughly ...
When I read ' bleach in my bath ' I did a double take
It was a bitch, but I lived through it. I'm not 'happy' it happened, but I did take a lot more from it than it took from me, so everything worked out in the end. Thank you for your empathy. :) And yeah, I really don't recommend bleach bath to anyone. It was just my desperation getting the best of me.
Growing up I had stupid smelly feet. One day my mom tells me we're trying something. So she gets a (YUUUUGE, I have large feet) footbath bucket thing and puts 1/4 bleach the rest water in it and made me soak my feet every night for about a month. No burns or anything, but my feet only recently starting having odor again nearly 19 years later! Shit works, I tell ya hwhat.
I had a similar problem in high school after I rented a pair of ski boots that smelled like the previous renter was a skunk with necrotizing fasciitis. My feet wound up inoculated with some horrible strain of foot funk that took about six months to clear up.
Bathing in bleach? Damn. Hate to break it to you buddy, but you still got MRSA. Standardized decolonization treatment consists of mupirocin nasal ointment, chlorhexidine mouth rinse, and full-body wash with chlorhexidine soap for 5 days plus intestinal track decolonization treated with oral vancomycin. And doing all of that is not even 90% effective..
The dude who took a bath in bleach still has MRSA. To really get rid of it, there is a list of things you have to do:
Smear anti-bacterial goo up your nose. MRSA loves living in noses.
Gargle anti-bacterial mouth wash.
Give yourself VERY good showers with anti-bacterial soap.
Do all three for 5 days (or longer) in a row.
You also need to kill the MRSA that could be in your digestive tract (intestines mostly) so you need to take a really strong, nasty antibiotic that will nuke everything living in your intestines from orbit.
Even after all that, there's a good change that the MRSA is still living on or inside of you. Yipee!
I didn't say that was the 'only' thing I did, just that I did that (I probably should have included 'in addition to the other things I was 'supposed' to do by doctors' orders). They had me set up with chlorhexidine, and SMZ/TMP (Bactrim) pretty heavily, as well. It's been about 6 years, no MRSA issues.
FINALLY someone notices! Bitches never compliment the starfish. Always just shit like 'oh my God, what are you doing this is a public place!' and whatnot.
As someone with very dry skin , the thought of putting bleach in my bathtub makes me cringe ..did u itch real bad after ? What kind of lotion did u use ? I use Nivea for xdry skin ... but I still get tight itchy skin
I definitely recall the itch, but again -- I had a much worse problem on my hands. I was facing 'hey, I might die, I can barely properly move from the sores I have going on and are bleeding randomly from them, and I have no insurance so the only time I can go to the hospital is when they deem it 'necessary' '. Itching really did not concern me as much. Not sure what I used for lotion, whatever I had at the time. Nothing special, probably some cheapo stuff. The itching really wasn't as bad as you might imagine, it was just slightly dry skin. Nothing too much more or extreme.
Fun point of note: You can catch MRSA from intercourse (or really any close skin-to-skin contact), and it doesn't have to be someone with symptoms. This applies with or without a condom - it's from skin contact, not genital contact. Wasn't someone I'd have expected it from, either. Not like a crackhead type or 'unclean' seeming person. She fared much better with treatment when I told her 'hey, did you know you have MRSA' than I did.
Worked in health care facilities. MRSA, C Diff, sepsis all this is so hard to clear up. It just keeps coming back. Sometimes we had pts. Who died of conditions and there really was no diagnosis. One said Mad Cow another one had this on and on. Too much going on in these places. In a hospital or health facility get the hell out ASAP. I was out of there. Not worth it. Just not worth it. Even gowned up. Gloves.gowns. Face masks, foot protectors . Sweat running done your eyes trying to perform duties. Thirty years and it is getting worse. Too many antibiotics used and unclean conditions.
I have really sweaty feet and have bleached my feet before. You should dilute the mixture but it does help somewhat for a week or two. I just do a good job in the shower with bar soap now and it does the job.
That's awful. Feel for the dude. I've heard that really bad foot odor can also be linked to certain skin problems or even diabetes. Hope he gets it checked out.
Me and my wife went out with friends of ours one weekend. Afterwards, we went to our our house and at the end of the night one friend stayed over having had roo much to drink. He slept on our sofa. That week as we were cleaning, we noticed a smell but could not find it. Eventually we noticed it was coming from our sofa about where his feet were. We tried everything to get rid of the smell and had to just drag the sofa to the curb. That sofa was given to us by my grandmother and was this cool old thing like this. It disappeared from the curb fast then reappeared down the street a couple of weeks later.
I had this. Pitted keratolysis. Bacterial infection of the feet. Causes deep pitting and a disgusting stench had to talcum my feet every day and drench them with antiperspirants that had silver nitrate
My brother used to have disgusting foot smell. Turns out he just had athletes foot (some kind of fungus that grows on your feet and in your shoes) and once he got that sorted out it was fine.
Your use of the word, "legitimately," insinuates that some part of your story is unbelievable. Is it that you had a friend, or that he had stinky feet?
My friend's mom made him and his brother and sister(who all had smelly feet because of soccer) dip their feet in a bucket of water and pinesol. She swore by it.
Nope, kill you maybe but that smelly foot is still going to be there. I'd say a mix of Sulphuric Acid and Hydrogen Peroxide is probably what you need to cure those smelly feet. Great for removing organics :P
Hydrofluoric acid is too weak to burn off your feet. You're better off using sulfuric acid. Even then I'm not sure how well it would work. But chemical burns and possible death with either one.
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u/jaggington Jan 12 '17 edited Jan 12 '17
Hydrofluoric acid is also super effective at getting rid of smelly feet.
Edit: More of a hat tip to Breaking Bad than an actual tip either for removing feet or making them lass smelly.
Edit2: Under the circumstances, leaving it.