He inhaled his socks, and he suffered a severe fungal infection in the lung – ryan

A Chinese man suffered a serious fungal infection in the lung due to an strange habit represented by smelling his dirty socks, and he was subsequently transferred to the hospital.

The man, whose identity was unveiled, and described as a “ordinary office employee” from Chung Cheng in southwestern China, was injured with a very cough that kept him awake at night despite taking medications without a prescription.

According to the local media, the doctors who treated the patient said that medical examinations revealed anxious signs of a severe infection in the right lung of the man.

Doctors performed the bronchial endoscopy, a process in which they used a high and flexible tool, to take samples from inside his throat, and the analysis of these samples showed that the patient has machine guns, a type of lung disease caused by a type of mold called machine guns and grows in wet places.

The patient said in an interview with him, to try to know where he might be subjected to fungi, that he was repeating his socks smelling repeatedly after wearing it for long periods, and then doctors tested his socks and found that they already contained the same mold breed that affected their patient.
The deputy director of the respiratory medicine department at the Southwest Hospital of the Medical University of the Army, Leh, explained that the socks provided fertile ground ideal for the growth of fungi.

He added in his interview with the media: “Wearing shoes for long periods constitute a closed, moist and warm space, which facilitates the reproduction of fungi, if they smell or threw socks full of fungi, the fungi may enter the lower respiratory system through the mouth and nose.”

He continued: “If the immune function in the body is low, this may lead to diseases such as fungal pneumonia.”

The doctors said that the patient had responded well to anti -fungal drugs and has since been discharged from the hospital.

It is noteworthy that this is not the first time that a Chinese man has been transferred to the hospital after smelling the smell of his socks in similar circumstances.

Then the doctors discovered that his “addiction” led to a fungal infection in the lung from germs that developed in his shoes, and in her talk at that time, Dr. May Zanagg said at the Zhangzhou Hospital No. 909 that there was another factor in the case, which is that the man did not get enough sleep due to the care of his child.

She added that this may have led to a decrease in his immunity and made it more likely to develop this type of infection, and the National Health Services Authority says that machine guns are rare in healthy people, but patients who suffer from lung diseases such as asthma or those who suffer from weak immune system, such as cancer patients, are more at risk.