{"id":115347,"date":"2020-10-31T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/fresh-solution-for-smelly-feet-from-breakthrough-nano-particle-technology"},"modified":"2020-10-31T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:22:51","slug":"fresh-solution-for-smelly-feet-from-breakthrough-nano-particle-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/fresh-solution-for-smelly-feet-from-breakthrough-nano-particle-technology","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Solution for Smelly Feet From Breakthrough Nano-Particle Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fresh-solution-for-smelly-feet-from-breakthrough-nano-particle-technology2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research<sup>[1]<\/sup> presented at the 29th EADV Congress, EADV Virtual, shows that socks coated in zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) can prevent bromodosis (foot odor) and pitted keratolysis (bacterial infection causing smelly feet), reducing the negative impact this embarrassing condition has on quality of life.<sup>[2]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Developed by the Royal Thai Airforce, the ZnO-NP-coated socks were trialed in a real-life setting by researchers at Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University in Thailand. They found that the antibacterial efficacy of ZnO-NPs, along with its safety and compatibility with human skin, makes it the perfect compound to incorporate into textiles, including socks, to prevent unpleasant foot odor.<\/p>\n<p>The double-blinded, randomized, controlled trial was conducted with 148 cadets at the Thai Naval Rating School. Bromodosis and pitted keratolysis are a common complaint in military personnel, with foot lesions, including pitted keratosis, occurring in over a third of naval cadets in Thailand (38.5%).<sup>[2]<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research[1] presented at the 29th EADV Congress, EADV Virtual, shows that socks coated in zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) can prevent bromodosis (foot odor) and pitted keratolysis (bacterial infection causing smelly feet), reducing the negative impact this embarrassing condition has on quality of life.[2] Developed by the Royal Thai Airforce, the ZnO-NP-coated socks were trialed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1490,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-government","category-military","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}