Help I STINK!!!!

[OFG-1]

Try Dr. Bronners peppermint soap. Just don't get it into eyes or other orifices. At health food stores.

http://www.drbronner.com/DBMS/PEP.htm

[Jax]

Help, every time I wear my wetsuit I stink for the next several days, and no amount of showering seems to help. I never pee in my suit, and always use sink the stink.

Does this happen to anyone else? Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you, my coworkers will thank you as well!

Umm . . . guys, I'm not a medico, but if the OP stinks as well . . . It suggests some kind of reaction to the neoprene.

First, Call DAN.
<li style="margin-left: 25px;"> Nonemergency medical questions 1-800-446-2671 or +1-919-684-2948, Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. (ET)


They may know about it.


Second, call your doctor and ask about seeing an allergy specialist or dermatologist. If you are reacting to the neoprene, it may be an allergy.




Do you have *any* other issues that make you stink? Shoes, perhaps? If it is only the wetsuit, that will make it easier to track down.

[Blackchains]

Nothing but wetsuits, but most have the same affect on me.

[Greenwood_60]

I either shower as I remove my wetsuit, or flush it with a few gallons of spring water, at the end of a trip. I don't smell afterwards, and my suit only does if I stays wet too long. I picked up a boot dryer from Harbor Freight ($20?), and the extensions are perfect for blowing warm air up the legs while the suit hangs from the shower curtain.

[FW]

I either shower as I remove my wetsuit, or flush it with a few gallons of spring water, at the end of a trip. I don't smell afterwards, and my suit only does if I stays wet too long. I picked up a boot dryer from Harbor Freight ($20?), and the extensions are perfect for blowing warm air up the legs while the suit hangs from the shower curtain.

Do you have a link to that? It might make a good drysuit dryer as well.

[Blackchains]

I have the harbor freight boot dryer also that I use for my booties, works great.

[Greenwood_60]

http://www.harborfreight.com/four-po...yer-67326.html

Only downside is the 3 hour timer... it's not long enough to dry neoprene. 2 cycles will usually do it though.

[Angry Turtle]

For some reason, I don't really experience this. I refuse to pee in my wetsuit and was diving exclusively wet until about a month ago. Wayne @ Amigos turned me on to Odoban while trying to convince me to pee in my wetsuit (don't ask but I wish I recorded this conversation!)
Anyhow, I've used it (though still not peeing in wetsuit) and the wetsuit actually smells pretty good! I use it in a tub of water with a small amount of Odoban but if you have the space (I live in an apt building), hang it up and use a sprayer (like for your lawn) that will create the mix automatically. This is what he does. The stuff is about $11/gallon at Home Depot.

I pee on my wetsuit all the time. All it takes for me is a good flush before I get out of the water, and then a rinse when I get home.

What I do make sure is to dry it out soon after, if you let it sit in a wet pile overnight it will stink like when you leave a load in the washer.

[Angry Turtle]

Umm . . . guys, I'm not a medico, but if the OP stinks as well . . . It suggests some kind of reaction to the neoprene.

First, Call DAN.
<li style="margin-left: 25px;"> Nonemergency medical questions 1-800-446-2671 or +1-919-684-2948, Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. (ET)


They may know about it.


Second, call your doctor and ask about seeing an allergy specialist or dermatologist. If you are reacting to the neoprene, it may be an allergy.




Do you have *any* other issues that make you stink? Shoes, perhaps? If it is only the wetsuit, that will make it easier to track down.

This is what I was thinking as well. If only wearing the wetsuit, not the peeing in them, is making the blackchains's body smell for days.

Blackchain, have you tried maybe wearing a lycra skin under the wetsuit? or maybe the pinnacles with a merino liner?

[Sludge]

I have the harbor freight boot dryer also that I use for my booties, works great.

I'm wondering if it would be relatively easy to build a PVC tree (two pipes to hold a drysuit upside-down by going up the legs) and hook it up to this boot dryer...