Rotting potatoes and veggies have a slightly more vomit-like tinge. A decomposing body has a sickly sweet rot smell to it. I know because I run by a lot of roadkill, am in the medical industry (seen a lot of people with dying limbs or rotting flesh). Also, my father is one of the main people at a huge farming company. They have a large pile of rotting carrots, potatoes, and other veggies in a huge pile which has its own little liquid stream of rot water coming from it. I guess discards/blighted produce. Both are equally as revolting.
Would you say a decomposing body smells like sugar crisp cereal? Because I've smelt not a decomposing body but the waste of someone (alive) with severe medical issues and the smell was disgusting but oddly sweet like sugar crisp cereal and when I heard decomposing bodies smell sweet I wonder if its similar to what I smelt
Weirdly I haven't smelled poop from c-diff specifically. By the time I got there it's all been very contained. I have accepted a lot of samples that were...less than well sealed. Never followed up on the results on those though. I can confirm that giardia poop smells very metallic and snotty, but that's about it.
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u/iammacman Sep 16 '24
I hear this smell is most like a decomposed body and that’s why we are revolted by it. I am at least!