I need help please

[Truckie]

I'm sorry this is going to smell. I am having trouble with my feet. After 16 hours a day in work boots they stink really bad when I take them off, in fact so bad I can actually smell ammonia.

I have to take my shoes off out side and let then air out out side for a while be for I bring them in to the house. I take the inserts out every night to allow them to dry and to allow air to dry the inside of the shoes. I use foot powder but no luck. After a few months I have to throw the shoes away because the smell so bad, thats gets expansive. I clean and scrub my feet every night, just as good if not better than a surgeon. But no luck.

So dose anybody else deal with a problem like this? Dose anybody have any answers or clues to what I can try or do to help this problem go away. I am stumped, I really need some help, Thanks

MIKE

 

[DKayser]

Peww!

Wear ONLY 100% cotton socks . Try a product called "Odor Eaters", they have insoles & I believe they have a powder also. Hope this helps. DK.

 

[LRoy]

IMO -



Had that happen to a pair of my boots once. Kind of funny - they went from being perfectly ok to totally rank in a matter of a few days.



Don't use foot powder. I don't remember if it was Red Wing boots or Rockport - but one of them is very clear in saying that using foot powder will clog the 'pores' in the boot that let it breathe. This may have been particular to the ones with the goretex linings/booties.



What kind of boots are you wearing? I wore Red Wings for more then 40 hrs straight several times last summer with some synthetic/wool blend socks - no stinky boots, no athletes foot, just happy feet.



good luck!

 

[QRTRHRS]

Re: Peww!

Originally posted by DKayser

Wear ONLY 100% cotton socks.

White socks, no colored ones.



Have you ever discussed this with your doctor? Could be something you eat doing it. New a guy in the Army that we made hang his shoes outside overnight. Problem went away on the military diet.



This would be a pain to do but if you poured ground up gypsum in your boots overnight then dumped it out prior to wearing, it would absorb the ammonia. Get all the crumbs out though.

 

[Rman]

Black wool socks will do that. White cotton or even those spendy thorlo socks might help. Also the boot makes a difference. Breatheable boots with gortex are a must. I use gold bond medicated foot powder when i get a rash of athletes foot (i play hockey and well, if you've ever played you know how bad the pads and skates can get inside that bag). Man if you can smell ammonia you have it bad... good luck!

 

[Doc Tinker]

I agree with the white cotton socks and good quality boots, but you should also see your doctor, in case there is a medical problem going on.



Doc

 

[Truckie]

Yes I am going to talk with the doctor to see whats up with this problem. I am also going to buy all new sacks this weekend, all whit 100% Cotton right. This problem seems to of just occurred out of the clear blue sky. I noticed it in the old Wolverine boots I had, and thought it was from them being 6 years old. I bought them and then did not wear them, basically because I forgot I had them. Just started wearing them in the beginning of summer. Just replaced them with another pair of Wolverine boots these have a 1000 grams of thinsaluate in them.

I need to do something here

Thanks.

MIKE

 

[WyoJim]

A low carbohydrate diet will just about completely eliminate body odor. The lower the better. You won't even have to wear under arm deodorant anymore.



Hell you could probably go back to just a Saturday night bath.



Thats the truth, No kidding!!