How to get rid of an old age smell?

In ours 5 "In" a class the timurovsky group was organized. We went to the elderly people living in the settlement near the military camp and helped them about the house. Boys cut firewood, carried coal to sheds, and girls swept garbage in houses and the yards, cleaned hen houses.

I then noticed some strange smell in houses of old men, but and did not come to my mind that it proceeds from people. I thought that in old houses some boards decay.

When I felt this smell at communication with elderly professor, understood that I it – began to smell bodies and clothes which became impregnated with it.

In a consequence I repeatedly had to catch this smell from the men surrounding me at department of higher education institution: they, it seems, seldom handed over the suits in a dry-cleaner. Thought that just sweat at them such unpleasant! I as everything, lived without the Internet therefore I knew nothing about a specific "smell of an old age". For the first time learned about it from a conversation with the woman of 75 years on this subject.

She told how her schoolmate lived days at it ten because he treated teeth in our stomatology. In the remote settlement he had a house, a garden, a kitchen garden, a goat, the small river, and he called her in marriage, but it preferred to live in the downtown with all conveniences. It quickly found to itself(himself) the woman of years 60 because led a healthy lifestyle and everything at it was normal with a potentiality in its 75 years. "Here only, the reptile, complained to acquaintances that I sent it every day to take a bath with salt before going to bed!" I was surprised: "Why it is so frequent?"
"So at our age from a body – an unpleasant smell, especially from men!" - the woman reported.

When there was an Internet, article under the name "Old Age Smell" somehow caught sight to me. So I learned that the organism of the elderly person produces colourless aldehyde under the name "2-nonenal" which is responsible for this specific smell of skin of a body. Besides, with age the amount of the antioxidants produced by an organism catastrophically decreases, and release of fatty acids, on the contrary, increases. Connecting with 2-nonenaly, fatty acids create difficult soluble film on a body of the person.

It is sure that all well know this smell, many have elderly parents, grandmothers, grandfathers. This smell is noticeable in Nursing homes and in chambers of hospitals where elderly patients lie. It is absorbed in clothes, linen, mattresses, pillows, wall-paper – in everything that surrounds the person. What to do?

Women are more sensitive to smells and are clean therefore in their apartments it is often not noticeable. I am on a visit at elderly neighbors, but except aromas of pies did not notice any smells in their houses.

Lonely elderly men seldom bathe, sometimes being afraid to slip, do not like to wash things, and house cleaning for them – almost a feat. Here at them it more often happens!.

The unpleasant smell amplifies not only from non-compliance with hygiene, but also under the influence of many factors connected with age the person namely:
- with drug intake which products of disintegration change a natural smell of skin:
- with bad work of a secretory system of an organism that leads to increase in content of urea as a part of sweat;
- with bad work of intestines that adds "a sourcrout smell" to aroma of a body;
- with dehydration, etc.
Emergence 2-nonentalya as a part of sweat – inevitable evil to get rid of it, according to experts, it is impossible. But fight methods with an unpleasant "smell of an old age" are.

To us with the husband on 70 years, and it is age at which intensive release of this substance begins though it is necessary to reckon from 30 years. Active lifestyle and hygiene of a body allow to make this aroma imperceptible. I have no problems: I use the peeling shower gel of the Israeli firm SeaCare, srubs, an antiperspirant, perfume.

But my husband is ill nearly one and a half years, leads an inactive life, and I noticed the first calls. I took measures to prevent distribution of this smell on the house. What do I do?
1. Every day the husband washes with shower gel of an armpit and leg, with gel for intim – genitals.
2. Every other day it changes linen: pants, t-shirt, socks. Puts on a t-shirt instead of an undershirt that sweat was not absorbed in bed linen;
3. The husband sleeps on the sofa: its covering is easier cleaned, than mattress fabric.
4. Instead of a sheet I lay a blanket cover from dense fabric that the smell was less absorbed in a sofa covering.
5. The room is aired 2 times a day. Periodically I light aromatic candles or sticks to impregnate walls with pleasant aroma. Recommended to do more often pastries with vanillin, but I do not like to be engaged in it. It is possible to burn down still paper, did not try because situation - not critical.
6. 3 times a week to sick people are recommended to take a bath with salt, but it is impossible to us: the husband cannot get into a bathtub! It is impossible to establish a shower cabin: it is necessary to break a part of the house. But I find a way to bathe it. After bathing I use an antiperspirant for vegans: decided that it - is safer than others.

Actually everything at us is normal: the son does not notice any smell, and it comes from a frost. The smell is caught only by me because the woman also is more sensitive to such aromas. Naturally, I want that the people entering my house experienced only positive emotions and feelings. So is and will be because I want it! Especially as there are already means for destruction of smells in rooms!