It is important to note that a single uric acid determination may be normal in 25% of cases of acute gout, so one normal uric acid measurement does not exclude gout. Therefore, it is essential to have serial measurements during the course of an attack.
Bad Body Odor â Causes of Fecal, Fishy and Foul Smell. A bad body odor may not only be due to the odor from the skin. Halitosis (bad breath), offensive groin odor and even bad foot odor are all factors to consider in body odor. In close proximity to others, even odors in concealed areas may be detectable. Offensive smelling discharge from any orifice, even the ear, may be responsible for bad body odor.
Human biology and genetics do play a role in how a person smells. People of East Asian decent tend to have fewer apocrine sweat glands in the body. Fewer glands makes them less prone to body odor, because fewer sweat secretions are released of the kind acted upon by bacteria on the skin to produce body odor.