Various drugs, including anesthetic agents, can cause parosmia in the perioperative period. There are reported cases of patients with alterations of smell and taste due to local anesthetics, nerve damage, or as a side effect of general anesthesia.
The decrease in carbohydrates and thereby glucose, forces your body to look to other sources for energy - namely fats. The fat breakdown for energy causes the odor that you may notice within the first few weeks to months after surgery, especially when your body is acclimating to your new diet.
The second possibility is that you may have had a nerve block at the time of the surgery. This can change the way you sweat, which in turn can lead to changes in your body's normal flora (meaning the bacteria and yeast that live on healthy skin). In either event, the goal is to get rid of the bad bacteria.
Sometimes, you can detect odors near an incision site because of an old dressing, body odor, or incontinence. But infected wounds often have a distinct odor along with other symptoms. Some bacteria can smell sickly sweet, while others can be quite strong, putrid, or ammonia-like.
So, rather than relying on your body to break down the drugs, our anesthetic gasses are exhaled more-or-less unchanged. The drugs dissolve out of the brain and back into the blood, and then into the lungs. This is one reason why your daughter's breath smells so strange after surgery.
In this regard, the incidence of anosmia or ageusia after an anesthetic has been estimated to be approximately 1.8% (4). Regardless of cause, these symptoms, albeit usually lasting only 1-2 weeks, can greatly impact one's quality of life.
Axillary osmidrosis (AO) is common in plastic surgery. The mechanism is that the unsaturated branched-chain fatty acids secreted by the apocrine sweat glandal (ASG) gland in the axillary region are decomposed by bacteria distributed on the axillary skin to produce a special odor.
Several conditions may cause a bad smell in the nose, including sinusitis, tooth/ mouth infections, dry mouth, some medications, some foods/drinks, and olfactory damage. Typically, a bad smell in the nose is not life-threatening but can decrease the quality of life.
Phantosmia is a condition that causes you to detect smells that aren't actually in your environment. It can happen in one nostril or both — and the odors may be foul or pleasant. Common causes include colds, allergies, nasal polyps and dental issues.
An olfactory hallucination (phantosmia) makes you detect smells that aren't really there in your environment. The odors you notice in phantosmia are different from person to person and may be foul or pleasant. You may notice the smells in one or both nostrils.
Various drugs, including anesthetic agents, can cause parosmia in the perioperative period. There are reported cases of patients with alterations of smell and taste due to local anesthetics, nerve damage, or as a side effect of general anesthesia.
The packing is gradually absorbed by your body within a few weeks. Due to swelling, dry blood, mucus, temporary packing, and crusting in your nose, you may have symptoms like an upper respiratory infection, and – yes - an unpleasant odor.
Some vitamins and medications might also change the color or odor of urine, especially vitamin B2, antibiotics, anesthetics or allergy medication.
While the odor may not be the most pleasant thing to experience, it is a standard for wounds to produce an odor. Wound odor is one of the ways that doctors and nurses can tell if a wound is healing correctly or becoming infected.
Leaking gastric juices may cause internal infections and can lead to recurrent UTIs that, in turn, could cause urine to smell like sulfur. Gastrointestinal fistulas occur most commonly after abdominal surgery or in people with chronic digestive problems.
a smell of ketones on your breath, which can smell like pear drops or nail varnish remover. confusion. drowsiness or loss of consciousness (coma)
The process of breaking down fat for energy releases byproducts called ketones. Acetone is a type of ketone, and it is the same fruity-smelling substance found in some nail polish removers. If the breath of a person with diabetes smells of acetone, this suggests that there are high levels of ketones in their blood.
Excessive sweating is one of the main reasons for an ammonia smell in nose. Sweat in itself has no smell, but when it is exposed to bacteria on the skin, it can develop a foul odor. This is mostly due to bacterial digestion of apocrine sweat.
In addition to the smell of burning flesh, another notable smell, in some surgeries, is the smell of cutting through bone, which, apparently, also smells like burning hair. Beyond that, in many surgeries, there aren't any particularly strong smells. Blood has a metallic smell to it.
Applying dressings soaked in a mixture of normal saline and intravenous metronidazole solution has also been reported as helpful for controlling odor. Systemic Metronidazole can be used if there is evidence of deep tissue infection causing foul odor.
If you have diabetes, a change in body odor could be a sign of diabetes-related ketoacidosis. High ketone levels cause your blood to become acidic and your body odor to be fruity. In the case of liver or kidney disease, your odor may give off a bleach-like smell due to toxin buildup in your body.