REVOLTING REMEDIES

This week: Urine therapy COULD your own urine be an effective treatment for sweaty feet? That’s the suggestion from doctors in Saudi Arabia.

Scientists at the University of Shaqra claim morning urine is rich in minerals and hormones which can calm the activity of the skin’s sweat pores.

The scientists recruited 20 young men with plantar hyperhidrosis (sweaty soles) and persuaded them to wash their feet for between 20 and 30 minutes each morning in their first wee of the day. Only one volunteer dropped out before the end of the three- week experiment. The scientists report in the European Scientific Journal that in the remaining cases the therapy controlled the volunteers’ hyperhidrosis.