My 8 year old step daughter smells like pickles all the time.  She can soak in a tub or swim in a pool and still smell very strongly of pickles.  Her eatting habits are TERRIBLE and I wonder if it has to do with that.  At home she is not made to eat a proper diet but rather given a steady diet of drive thru type meals mainly "chicken fingers and fries".  All of her clothes and her bedroom smell so strong of her odor.  Recently when I went to her house (where she lives with her mom) and just walking up the driveway I could smell it.  I am not the only one who smells it but I seem to be the only one concerned.  It is so strange, I'm sure it must be an indication that something is in need of medical correction.
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You need to talk to her mom or comment to her that she is feeding your child at to many fast foods restaurants..Not only can the ordor be a problem but it may cause the child to get constipated and if not noticed can lead to major health problems..She probably smells like pickles because of all the preservatives in the foods she eats not only fast food but junk food, her body is small enough to where she is excreting the smell.\nAnd if it turns out it's not the fast food giving her the smell maybe it is something that is being used to clean the home of the childs Mom, also MOLD can smell like pickles, is the hoome in good up keep??
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Oh man. There's a guy at my office, thank you lord I don't have to go there often, who smells like an old dog. Breath, b.o., the whole thing. Take the curl right out your hair. The bosslady lysols his chair every night, and she bought one of those every 3 minutes air freshener squirt things and it's right beside his desk. She's told him to clean up, she's told him to go home till he gets clean. He still smells bad. And now he's bringing his smelly kid to work every afternoon. Urk.
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She could be dehydrated. You should ask your Dr. also re. symptoms of Diabetes, such as a fruity smell to the breath, increased urination , can't recall the rest. Are there control issues at your house? I only ask because an environment where things are either out of control or one or more people are tending to over-control, that is a perfect set-up for eating disorders. Food & it's consumption ( or lack thereof) becomes the one thing the child can have some control over. You'd better seriously lookinto this with someone with expertise in this field, be safe.
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try adding the 'p' diet into her meals...the 'p' diet is what my doctor told us to use when the 8 month old I am a nanny for was having a hard time. you just add everything that starts with the letter p...peaches, pears, peas, prunes...but stay away from starches. try to add a lot more liquid too. maybe her stool is too hard for her to pass...adding liquid will make it much easier
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Oh my goodness this is soo funny.  Thank you so much for letting me tell this story.  Okay so awhile back one of my good friends Jorge (who's Mexican), his (now) wife (who is generally fairly quiet) and I were driving to a movie and my friend pondered outloud, "did you ever notice how different cultures smell like the foods they eat?"  I sort of tentatively muttered in the affirmative and he continued, "Mexicans smell like burritos.  Asians smell like fish.  Indians smell like curry."  We all laughed. Then I wondered and asked, "what do white people smell like?" Without skipping a beat, Fatima immediately replied, "sandwiches."\n\nOhhhhohohhhooooooooohh!!!!!! Did we laaaugh!!! And it's sooooo true!!!! If there is any cultural food of caucasians it has to be the sandwich.  Think.. PB&J. Hamburgers, Hot dogs, subs, philly cheese steaks.  They are all sandwiches of one sort or another!!!!!\n\nWe smell like sandwiches. Mystery solved. ROFLMAO
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Thats strange. My ex-wife had a bad case of food poisoning but I don't recall her complaining about lack of taste senses. Hopefully you will get your sense back. How can a person eat without tasting their food? Thats terrible.
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What kind of restaurants?  To be honest, this sounds exactly like an allergic reaction to MSG, a food additive, to me!  And that would explain why it doesn't happen at home.
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Maybe she doesn't like fish and gets stomach problems so she doesn't have to eat it.  Also likely is that she is sensitive to the oil in fish and it upsets her stomach, sort of like a sensitivity people have to lactose in milk or cheese.  That's not an allergy but it's an inability to digest lactose.  Could be something similar.  I'd say, don't give her fish.  There's plenty of other stuff to eat.
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It's true, what you eat affects how it smells, but what you eat also affects skin, urine, sweat, and breath odors.  Limiting extremely pungent = smelly, foods will help. Food like garlic, onions, curry powder, etc.  However garlic is good for you and peppers like jalepenos cause some cancer cells to self destruct. I realize you may not want to hear this from a female but the truth is if who ever is in the position to be smelling/tasting your sperm, they probably like you enough that it doesn't matter.....or if it is the taste that gets to them then have the person use mouth wash or brush their tongue before hand.  It desensitizes the taste buds so it is hard to taste anything.
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My 11 year old was like this earlier this year. We couldn't figure out what was wrong with her...It got really bad and she wouldn't eat for days because of the pain. The doctor put her on medicine but that made it worse... so this is what we did... We changed her diet, reduced her stress, had her talk to a counselor, and then went back for another thorough exam. For children there could be many things wrong... from cysts, infection, blockages, even allergies. I hope they find something to help your daughter! for our daughter we cut back on milk (she only gets a small amount now and we suplement her calcium), reduced sugar, went whole wheat, more vegies, and juice, and no soda pop, reduced junk food, and easy to cook meals (yes more work for mom and dad but worth it!) and also sent lunches with her to school to have more control over what she ate there too. Then I give her back massages, which seem to help relax her stomach muscles and then she drinks green tea with mom ( we made a ritual of herbal and tea time with her and I)... again.. hope your daughter feels better!
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My grandfather has Alzheimer's and is in a nursing home. I go to visit him on Wednesday nights and on Sundays.  I bring him the pickles that he likes (he likes sour and zesty garlic) I also make sure he is stocked up with Moxie (his favorite soda) and I bring him his licorice candy.  Find out what his favorite things are!  For Grampy I also bought him a journal and put a big note on it so that whenever someone visits he has a note in there to remind him.  This seems to have helped allot.  Before he didn't remember when I came to see him or anything....now he says.. "did you remember to bring me pickles??"  It may be a small thing, but it helps....Another thing Ive noticed with Grampy is that he may not remember events but the emotions from that event affect his body...for instance...my grandmother stresses him out something awful...he won't remember that she visited him, but he always has an upset stomach and a headache on the days that he has seen her...isn't that amazing?  sorry it's so lengthy, hope that helps hon!\nBest Wishes!
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OK, this is going to sound REALLY weird, but there are two smells that take me back home to the little old farmhouse I grew up in... the smell of baking cookies, and the smell of gun oil. \n\nMy mom ran a small bakery out of our home for a while, so she was always in the kitchen whipping up the most amazing things - everything from fondant wedding cakes to chocolate chip cookies (hence the baking cookies part). \n\nMy dad was a cop and firearms instructor for 28 years and would come home and clean his service pistol at the kitchen table (not when Mom was baking, though). I know it's odd, but it's just one of those smells that makes me think of home. It was always nice to smell that particular odor - it meant Dad was home safe and sound.
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It sounds like a yeast infection...and if she has been on anti-biotics she would be susceptible to one.  You can get liquid acidophiles at your local health food store (it comes in strawberry and blueberry flavors that kids usually like).  Give her 1-2 tsp a day while on anti-biotics and for 10 days after.  A friend of mine (who is a nurse)told me this trick for my son, whom the doctor was getting ready to have tubes put in his ears for ear infections.  He hasn't had an ear infection since.  Now I always give the acidophiles during anti-biotics to my family.  The anti-biotics kill off the good bacteria with the bad and it lowers the immune system.  Using pro-biotics (such as acidophiles) helps to counter act the down-side of anti-biotics.  Also, keep her off sugar (that includes fruit) until she clears up...sugar will feed the yeast and make it worse.  I would also let the doctor know that the symptoms haven't improved and make sure that it isn't something else besides a yeast infection.
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Vaginal "farts" are actually very common, however they are usually not produced by gasses from the uterus. It's simply air that has gotten trapped in the vaginal canal. Sometimes the labia forms such an airtight seal, that air accumulates until there is enough pressure for it to break the seal and escape in a fart. \n\nHaving said that, you say she has a strong odor. There is a possibility that she has some sort of vaginal infection. The growing of the bacteria in the vaginal canal could be producing even more gasses than normal. I'd have her checked for that. \n\nI don't see the tipped uterus being connected to this. \n\nBTW, you seem like a very caring hubby. Good for you.
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I just emailed you! Lol! I have a 7 year old with autism who is on a gluten free/casein free diet. He is EXTREMELY hyperactive. Before I put him on the diet (he was almost 3) he would be even MORE hyper after eating foods with milk, and would have these crazy laughing spells. He already bounces off the walls, but it was obviously more so with the milk products, not to mention the stools he would have after eating them. I was changing like 10 pull ups a day. He would not even touch milk after I took him off of the bottle but he was addicted to cheese, and cereals/crackers with wheat in them.  AFTER I put him on the diet, within a matter of only a couple of weeks, he just stopped peeing on himself. Period, including at night. So to me I related that directly to the diet. I have wanted to give up on the diet sometimes, but you know, every time I let him have some foods which he normally doesn't have, he acts even more hyper than usual, and if you knew my son you would find that hard to believe! Lol! I have considered Feingold as well as vitamin therapy(B6 and Magnesium), but with my financial situation and stress level, any more changes would just be really hard for me to enforce right now. I also had completely takem him off of sugar for a long time, but I have caved and so he has it every now and then. I can't really tell if it affects his behavior or not. I am still looking for a solution that works, I am just kind of burned out by the trial and error of it all!
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Please read this all the way through, my heart is with you. I have two boys 10 and 6 that did the same thing (flushing). Charging 10 cents every time I found the bowl full stopped my problem. But your daughter seems like she has hit rebellion already. My 6 year old became very sore and he learned his lesson at 4 about wiping. But with your daughter "dirty down there" is not going to work. She's 10 not 4, don't patronize her, think back to when you were 10. Let's face it we were all picking up info from friends about sex. You 3 parents have to get together as a group and realize she is not a child she is a young lady/woman. Lectures and threats are not going to work anymore. She needs to start making her own decisions, educated decisions. Talk to a gynecologist get facts about what could happen if she doesn't clean up her act. Pictures if necessary, of what these diseases can do to her body. She could pick up staf infection just to name one, and wind up in the hospital. (My husband being a fire fighter had a call at one time about a woman with an upset stomach. She wasn't a wiper either her whole body smelt of crap. When they got her to the hospital because no one wanted to check between her legs (which was where the real discomfort was) they found her vagina was infested, stuffed with maggots.)Please do everything in your power to educate her in a way that will help her to help herself make the right choices. Also is she happy with herself, looks, school, and friends. These are all very important to her right now. If she doesn't have it yet soon she will be starting her cycle. You think you have problems now, wait. This is the summer of change for your family. Make it that way, help her, she needs you all just to hear her, and realize she is not a little girl, or even a big girl, she is a young lady/woman. A new hair style, a light colored eyeshadow if not wearing makeup, a few new clothes, you might want to rethink the panty thing. Is she wearing panties that make her feel like a young lady/woman, or is she wearing widebottomed, widesided diaperwear. Help her to feel different about herself. Chin up, no one ever said this parent thing was easy, but think of the good times, keep an open mind, and email me if you need to. We have all been there in one way or another.
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Tell her she can eat anything she wants, but she must wash it first!  (Except she can have two slices of bread per day without the wash!)  Wash an apple, orange, kiwi, but wash a slice of pie?  Cookies?  Chips?  After seeing the effect water has on her favorite snack food she might not want to eat it anymore!    Wash first, eat later!  You ever see chocolate cake after a good scrubbin'?  It looks nasty!