Diseases have different odors

It is easy to understand that a person sick with the flu, go to the room where it is, the smell of stale sweat, cough medicines and human suffering. But is it possible to detect various diseases only by the smell emanating from the man? Scientists say that it is possible, and the smells of many diseases have been described.

Thus, for example, their characteristic smell have schizophrenia is associated with changes in metabolism. It is possible to train rats to distinguish between schizophrenics smell: it emits is produced in patients and then released to the trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. This scent is described as "the smell of overripe fruit sweet».

In patients with cystic fibrosis do not smell the sweat and breath - sour smell. His "flavors" have kidney disease, liver and digestive system, as they are responsible (among others) for the cleaning of the blood, and with the defeat of these components appear in the blood, which should not be there. Some of them have a smell. For example, the smell of fish when the body can not absorb choline contained in the food, and stores a chemical called trimethylamine.

People who work in the hospital during the outbreak, and can describe the odor of some diseases. Diphtheria has a sweet odor, diseases of the abdominal cavity - the smell of freshly baked bread, a form of tuberculosis - the smell of beer. Young children with metabolic disorders can be so hard to smell maple syrup, which is a state in the United States received the title of "maple syrup urine disease».

Of course, people are not able to distinguish between the good smells, but it is possible to train animals, such as dogs. Determining the type of the disease, or at least of the affected body of early diagnosis, before carrying out tests, would greatly facilitate the task of the physician. Perhaps in the future really starts medicine throughout resort to such practices.

via factroom.ru