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to be super puzzled why my elbow stinks

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samsamsamsamsamsam · 08/05/2019 20:57

what on earth...... I am clean. I am always clean. However for the past few days my right elbow (the crook of it) has been omitting a god awful stench. I can't wash it off. It is foul.

It smells like feet and rot and awfulness. There is no broken skin, it just looks like a normal elbow. WTF.

why is this happening? anyone got any ideas? soap isn't doing anything!

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AudacityOfHope · 10/05/2019 11:33

Would you honestly not know if there was a 'festering wound' on your elbow?? No heat or pain of swelling would suggest it's not anything that needs to be rushed to a doctor.

You'd be 'that' patient of the week Grin

LakieLady · 10/05/2019 11:10

I have checked my coat' - no smell in the crease although that was a good call.

That's disappointing. I was hoping you'd come back and tell us that a lump of ageing Gorgonzola had got caught in the lining of your sleeve or something.

LakieLady · 10/05/2019 11:04

I would really be worried about something festering under the skin. If there is no obvious sign of anything on the skin but it still smells like a festering wound then you need to get underneath the skin checked!

But record the doctor's reaction on your phone and post it online, so we can see if he/she struggles not to roar with laughter.

LakieLady · 10/05/2019 10:56

Are you sure that you can tell your arse from your elbow?

That made me laugh so much I've given myself a bellyache.

M3lon · 10/05/2019 10:45

My elbows smell different...but neither is a bad smell.

I think its bacterial...the fact that it kicks off after sweating might mean you've got a proliferation of the skin bacteria that eat sweat and make bad smells. Its not impossible for that to build up in one place rather than generally.

You might need an antibiotic cream for it.

BoxOfBabyCheeses · 10/05/2019 10:21

DS used to call his knees leg-elbows! Thanks for reminding me OP Grin

I hope you get answers soon....I haven't sniffed my elbow yet. I'm being stubborn and proving that I'm not one of the sheeple. I give it until dinner time til I give in out of pure curiosity,

GiveMeAllTheGin8 · 10/05/2019 08:56

Definitely sudocream and a glass of flat 7up

BusterGonad · 10/05/2019 07:38

GarthFunkel so funny, it's like the old saying, if it moves and shouldn't gaffer tape, if it doesn't move and should WD40 😂

stayathomegardener · 10/05/2019 07:30

Dd used to call them armbows.

GarthFunkel · 10/05/2019 07:25

Entry level first aid - wet paper towel
Second tier - sudacrem
Third - dettol bath

An early night comes in fourth, if none of that has worked some Andrews liver salts in the morning should sort it Grin

BusterGonad · 10/05/2019 07:15

OnlineAlienator Only if the medical emergency involves a sore ass crack!

OnlineAlienator · 10/05/2019 06:55

NO buster! I am with the poster's mother who could solve any medical emergency with sudocrem!!!

CanuckBC · 10/05/2019 06:25

This thread is hilarious. Yes, I confess, I smelled my damn elbows🤣

BusterGonad · 10/05/2019 06:19

EVERYBODY KNOWS IT!!!

BusterGonad · 10/05/2019 06:17

Sudo cream is shite, come on you lot, I know it and you know it! 😂

AlmostAJillSandwich · 10/05/2019 05:30

Both me and my sister have had this from over washing and it geting unbalanced flora and getting a fungal infection, neither of us had redness or soreness.

imsorryiasked · 10/05/2019 05:25

Bold fail there sorry.

Mine are fine by the way. DS used to giggle hysterically at the word elbow, I'd forgotten until reading this thread.

imsorryiasked · 10/05/2019 05:23

Hutchismo
Are you a vet?

Grin Grin Grin

Motorcyclemptiness · 10/05/2019 05:11

Penaten is much better than sudocream and can heal small cuts and sores almost overnight. No provenance with weird elbows sadly.

marmiteontoastplz · 10/05/2019 04:59

This has cheered me up no end Grin

OnlineAlienator · 10/05/2019 04:52

I'm not having this sudocrem hatred - i put it on everything, and it cures it. And thats that.

Dana28 · 10/05/2019 04:42

You don't need to bother the doctor with something like this. Just put fungal cream on like daktarin

BusterGonad · 10/05/2019 04:12

Windex 100%

idbenappingbutthedogbarked · 10/05/2019 03:54

Spray it with windex?

WellThisIsShit · 10/05/2019 03:52

Oh I’m another one saying cut straight to the anti-fungal cream or nothing!

Hope you’re slathering on the cream and it’s chasing away the stink as you sleep :-)