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Q. My 17-year-old daughter has very smelly feet. I convinced her to try the urine trick, and IT WORKED! Her foot odor is completely gone!
A. We have heard from veterans that urinating on smelly feet can help clear up athletes’ foot as well as foot odor.
Another possibility involves zinc supplements. Here is one reader’s story: “About 8 years ago, my then 12-year-old son had terrible foot odor. It finally stopped when I read in your column to try zinc. We bought generic zinc tablets and within a week we saw dramatic improvement with just one tablet daily.”
Regarding your approval of urinating on your feet as a help against foot odor, I read in Baltimore's City Paper (weekly column "The Straight Dope") that it doesn't really help. A couple of the key points were that most people would do this remedy in the shower. The flow of water and dilution would quickly eliminate any benefits. Also, the amount of the chemical in urine you sited as causing the reaction that would fight foot odor is insufficient to have any noticable effect. You would really have to soak feet in urine to possibly be effective but that would be really oogi.
I have put boric acid in my shoes, and it has worked miracles. Is it safe?