why do feet smell?

Answer 1

Okay, here's the answer to the smelly foot conundrum :

Your feet are endowed with over a quarter of a million (250,000) sweat glands that squirt nearly half a litre (500 mls) of sweat into each of your shoes, every day. (Recent experiments also found that men are officially sweatier than women !)

At the same time your body is shedding dead skin cells at the rate of up to 50,000 a minute. If you piled them all up, after a year you'd have half a kilogram (500 g) of dead skin.

This means that your feet are essentially providing a free supply of food and drink that can sustain a thriving population of bacteria and fungi.

Trainers are magnificent for making feet ming because shoes made from synthetic fabrics tend to be less absorbent, and less-permeable to gas and liquids (in other words less breathable) than leather, so they essentially stew your feet, creating a bacterial banquet beyond measure.

Leather on the other hand, being breathable and absorbent, draws away the sweat, keeping the feet drier and hence making it more difficult for bugs to grow.

As everyone knows, bacteria and fungi often produce volatile waste substances as byproducts of their metabolism (the night after a curry is a good example of this) and foetid feet are merely manifestations of the same thing.

Intriguingly, scientists trying to discover the ideal mosquito attractant found (by wearing the same pair of socks for over a week) that smelly feet are a potent biting-bug-bait, and so too is Limburger cheese. It turns out that both Limburger cheese and feet harbour very similar bacteria which produce very similar odours, explaining why smelly feet are often referred to as 'cheesy' !


The answer, therefore, is to switch to leather, or more breathable, footwear, buy some odour-eating in-soles, or switch to more absorbent socks that not made from nylon.

Answer 2

because, sweat is excreeted from the bottoms, and becomes trapped between the feet, and the surface they are on. Without the ability to "air out" they stink. In addition to that, stink can be casue by funguses too : P.

Answer 3

if you wash your feet some time it will help

Answer 4

if you was and talc them they don't ...... try it morning and night for a week and it works. By the way when you shower just because they get wet dosent mean they are clean.....bend down and wash them !!!!!!!

Answer 5

Its probably caused by sweat just like your underarms.

Answer 6

try washing them!

Answer 7

air it often

Answer 8

because you don't wash them or change your socks !!

Answer 9

because you dont clean them.... dirty!