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Odor In The Court: Bromohydrosis (AKA Foot Odor)Apr 05 '04 (Updated Apr 23 '04) Write an essay on this topic.
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Though no one has a reliable estimate of the number of people who have foot odor, as a result, millions avoid the care they need. The embarrassment can furthermore hurt your career or social life, unless you know how to handle it. Embarrassment leads to secrecy. Foot odor is one of America’s finest concealed secrets. When foot odor intensifies, the utilization of deodorants and powders help, but like many types of air fresheners, most of the time, it conceals the odor for only a short period. Approximately 250,000 sweat glands inhabit each pair of feet. A pair of feet can release nearly a cup of moisture every day. Bromohydrosis is the politically correct name of foot odor. Perspiration, dead skin cells, and bacteria are the main culprits that cause foot odor. Many people live in constant fear of being recognized as an inflicted sufferer of bromohydrosis. In most cases odor problems are preventable, and when they are not preventable, they are almost always treatable. The only way to absolve foot odor is to remove the bacteria. An even healthier strategy is to prevent the bacteria from growing in the first place. Embarrassment is a massive, powerful emotion that stops everything. It tells people to pay attention, that they are doing something wrong. As much as embarrassment seems to obscure our lives, civilization would not work without it. Embarrassment is the sudden acknowledgment that others have noticed what you are doing, or have done, and that notice is negative. Like a flashing red light, it warns us that we have broken one of the rules of keeping society orderly. Thorough preparation will safeguard most against embarrassing moments. Improving wit and having catchy comebacks to the annoying question, “What is that smell?” may dispel a person from a sticky (or stinky) situation. Humor may not work for everyone though. People should use snappy comebacks to overcome embarrassment only if they are clever. Sometimes a direct appeal to onlookers' compassion works best. Research conducted by David Zimmerman suggests that this kind of sympathy is typical. In one study Zimmerman conducted, students set up an unstable pyramid of toilet paper. Then, two sets of shoppers were interviewed. There were shoppers who accidentally knocked the pyramid down and shoppers who witnessed the accident. They found that the onlookers were much less likely to despise the victims than the victims expected. The study reveals that one of the keys to escaping embarrassment is realizing that others do not always see people in a negative light when people make a mistake in public. The humiliation is mostly in our own mind. For the most part, no one can tell if a person has dreaded bromohydrosis. The person who suffers with this infliction is most likely bound with secrecy until that day arrives where someone will want to dine at a chintzy Indian restaurant where people remove their shoes. The only option in this situation would be to blame it on the masala or soured ghee. Most people will never notice. People need to stop acting as their own jailer, judge, and jury where foot odor is considered. Keeping themselves from living life is not the answer. People must rely on the fact that not everyone has a great sense of smell, and that many others are inflicted with this problem. By being free from secrets, there is less stress in people’s lives. All anyone needs to remember is the comeback that states, “Whoever smelt it dealt it.” Although it sounds quite childish, the saying will work on anyone who would point out the fact that a malodorous gas surrounds the area. Those bits of information are always best kept unsaid because, after all, while not everyone has to tend with bromohydrosis, we all will have to deal with at least one bout of flatulence in our lifetime.  |
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