[mandarins]

Since this morning I keep smelling something sickly sweet. I cannot tell if it is me, or something in the house (though I could smell it at times when I was out in the garden today) or my toddler? I have smelt it on and off and washed my hands and can still smell it on them. My toddler smelt a bit like it but also had ice cream spilt down her top
It comes and goes and is just kind of yucky. I vaguely recognize it but cannot be sure what it is.

Has anyone else had this?

[runnybabbit]

OP does your toddler have any symptoms at all of diabetes? Some people describe ketones as smelling sweet. I can't smell them I'm afraid but that is what I have heard.

[mandarins]

I do not know much about diabetes. I googled it just now and I do not think those are symptoms I recognize but I will start paying closer attention.
How do toddler get diabetes anyway? It is a worrying thought that someone so little could have a condition like that.

[nik_klinger]

Perhaps it's a flowering spring plant/ flower?

[MoonPie]

Could you be pregnant? I can smell everything when pregnant.

Not that that helps answer where the smell is coming from.

[jules83]

has she been urinating more often and have increased thirst? Kids can get type 1 diabetes, totally different to type 2.


It can get extremely serious really quickly, so if her urine/breath is smelling sweet,at the very least get her to GP and ask for her blood sugar level to be tested, that will tell you straight away

[Wahwah]

Bit random, but if you think it is in the house or garden, I have had a couple of cases where a sickly sweet smell in the air was a dead animal. We had a dead mouse the chimney and it was this kind of smell.

[mandarins]

Bit random, but if you think it is in the house or garden, I have had a couple of cases where a sickly sweet smell in the air was a dead animal. We had a dead mouse the chimney and it was this kind of smell.

That is a good point. It could almost be similar to a small dead animal, I think after eating poison they can smell sickly sweet as they rot, but why is the smell on my hands?? I washed with warm water and soap and it stayed.
I will have to see if I can still smell it tomorrow. No one else in the family mentioned it and I did ask DH a few times earlier in the day when I could smell it strong around him ( I checked him out closely and the smell was not on him. I smelt things near him such as his coffee cup and it was not those things either).

[Guest_~Songbird~_*]

Yeast infection?, they can smell like this.

[lonelygoatherd]

A breast milk leak turned sour? Sorry if that's a bit of a gross idea.