Smelly visitor

[sararh]

Hi all, I have a close family member who frequently comes to visit (live alone and is 'bubbling' with us) who smells so, so bad. The smell is a sort of sour, strangely metallic sweaty smell that I've never smelt on anyone else and lingers in the air for hours after they leave and on furniture for days. I have put throws down so I don't have to wash the seat covers each time. Apart from opening windows and spraying some air freshener, I don't know what else to do. I don't expect there are any magic solutions, but if anyone does happen to have one, please share!!

Waft Native American Sage sticks or Joss sticks about like a unorthodox Russian Priest or a Priest doing a exorcism. L.o.l😂

Whilst your visitor comes to see you and or whilst he is about to leave..

Also any seat he sites on put a bed sheet on this,so he only sits on the bed sheet its a lot easier to wash.
or put a open sleeping bag on the seat for him to sit on,
If he thinks its weird what you doing you have perfect way to to say what the prob is, in a kind way.

Best of luck
Really sounds like you need it

Better off just visting him in his own house or sitting outside in your garden or conserverty if you have one or even going for a short walk sitting on bench talking

Sounds like there are mental illness issues here as well, and/ or possibly ASD (fixation on ideas that can't be shifted is the ONLY reason I'm mentioning that).

But clearly mentioning anything is too big a risk for the OP to take, so I wonder if it's worth giving them new bedding as a gift and maybe taking the old stuff to decontaminate? Might be a start at least.

My dad is 87 and I can tell when he hasn't bathed sufficiently because there's a sweet sickly smell that comes off him - but I have no qualms mentioning it to him, because he has reduced capacity for smell now (his father also lost his sense of smell as he got old)

And you need thick towells to put on his seating area obviously easier to wash for you.😕

He’s sounds unkempt if he thinks bedding just needs to be aired

You are more tolerant than me.I couldn’t have someone in my house like that as I’d be physically ill. I’d have had to go to their house and wash everything and only have them over when they smell ok. I get this isn’t an option for you op. I’m just saying we all aren’t the same.

Why is it always assumed that someone being overweight means they have Diabetes! Not every overweight person does. Yes it can be a cause of T2 Diabetes but it's not a foregone conclusion!!!

Fungal infections. In skin folds, belly button, etc. Also in the feet. Could also be diabetes, but being overweight means there are areas which get damp/sweaty and form fungal infections very easily.

The bedding thing sounds pretty awful and unhygienic. I think that's going to be having an impact too. All that sweat and dead skin cells and possibly mites and bed bugs. Yuck

Hi I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this but Google fish odour syndrome. Its a condition where the body is unable to break down enzymes apart from through the skin, it comes out like sweat in a range of different smells hence the name although not every person smells like fish, sometimes it can be rotting meat or even vomit

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Oh Goodness!