The body ore ie body smell is only connected to sweat or cleanliness. But latest scientific research says that the smell coming out of the human body can also open a big secret of our health. Different studies have proved that diseases like Parkinson, malaria and even cancer can be installed from body oder. Let’s know how?
Parkinson’s ‘Smell Signature’
Parkinson is counted among the most difficult diseases so far as its early diagnosis is extremely difficult, but scientists from the University of Manchester have made a major discovery. He analyzed the sebum from the skin of Parkinson patients with the Mass Spectrometry.
In this, about 30 such Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCS) were found, which were only present in Parkinson patients. These include special compounds like Eicosane and Octadecanal. This discovery is so important that now Parkinson can be detected in 3 minutes from just one skin swab test.
BBC spoke on this research in its report, scientist Prof. Perdita Barran has been cited. According to Prof. Pardita, this is the first time that we are able to recognize a disease in a perfect manner with its smell.
Smell of malaria and children
In the year 2018, a study in Kenya also gave a surprising result. Foot-Odour Samples of 56 children were taken in it. It was found that malaria comes out of the body of infected children in large quantities called Heptanal, Octanal and Nonanal. This smell makes a kind of fruity-grassy smel that attracts mosquitoes especially. That is, this smell not only indicates the disease but is also an important link to spread the disease.
Scientific nose faster than dogs
Many international studies have also revealed that dogs can catch diseases like cancer with their ability to smell. In a research, dogs correctly recognized prostate cancer in 99% of cases. Now the team of MIT scientists andreas Marshin has started the Realnose.AI project on this basis. In this, an artificial nose is being prepared by mixing human olfactory receptors and machine learning, which can identify smell more accurately than humans. In a report, Mershin has said that our goal is that the nose of the machine is better than the dog and it can smell any disease.
How will these research be beneficial
This research by scientists shows that the smell of the body can be the initial alarm of the disease. Without blood test and without biopsy, a new path of diagnosis is opening. In the coming time, doctors can catch the disease only with your smell. Let us know what smells are in which disease, what scientific people found.
Which disease smells in which disease?
Diabetes- If a patient smells fruit-like fruit from the body or breath, then it may be a sign of increasing ketone bodies in the blood.
Liver disease- The body and breath causes rotten eggs or sulfur.
Kidney failure-fans like fish or ammonia smell.
TB (tuberculosis)- Smells like stale beer from breath and wet cardboard from the skin.
Malaria- Smells like sweet-gorge from children’s skin, which specially attracts mosquitoes.
Parkinson disease- the body’s muscles i.e. sharp, chronic wood-like smell.
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