Contents:
- Medical Video: Does Disease Have A Smell?
- Get to know the disease detection device by Hossam Haick
- How can someone's breath aroma show certain diseases?
- The workings of disease detection devices from breath scent
- The future of sophisticated disease detection tools
Medical Video: Does Disease Have A Smell?
Since ancient times, the Greeks and Chinese have already learned to detect diseases and health problems based on the scent of a person's body. Scientists have also tested the ability of animals such as mice and dogs to guess the health conditions of both humans and animals only from their scents. Finally the experts began to develop special disease detection devices based on the smell of human breath.
Is there really a sophisticated tool that can detect disease only from the smell of your breath? How does it work? Here is the full review.
Get to know the disease detection device by Hossam Haick
An Israeli scientist and professor, Hossam Haick, first developed a special device capable of detecting the smell of explosives and hazardous chemicals in 2004. However, since his wife was diagnosed with colorectal cancer (colon) In 2012, Hossam Haick switched direction and used the design technology to detect chronic diseases, especially cancer in humans.
Finally in December 2016, this scientist first exhibited the latest artificial disease detection device in the journal American Chemical Nano Society. The tool was used to detect breath scent of more than 1,400 study participants. Apparently this tool is able to recognize 17 different types of diseases. The level of accuracy even reaches 86 percent.
Diseases that can be detected include lung cancer, kidney failure, Parkinson's disease, ovarian cancer (ovary), prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis, and Crohn's disease.
How can someone's breath aroma show certain diseases?
The smell of breath can indeed show your health condition. This is because when you sigh, you will release thousands of compounds and organic substances left over from all chemical processes that occur in the body through your breath. These organic compounds and substances are invisible because they are in the form of molecules. Although invisible, the collection of molecules will produce a distinctive odor.
The molecule can even detect age, genetics, and metabolic processes like what happens in your body. This is why your body's scent is able to show the possibility of your secret illness.
The workings of disease detection devices from breath scent
Until now, Hossam Haick's disease detection devices are still being developed and refined. Because the accuracy must be able to reach 100 percent before this tool can be used for medical purposes.
The way this tool works is so unique. When you exhale, a special plate similar to a SIM card on your cellphone will capture various molecules in your breath. After being caught, the molecules will be given electricity to be further analyzed by an artificial intelligence device (artificial intelligence or AI).
After filtering and analyzing the various molecules, then this sophisticated tool can guess the possibility of your illness.
The future of sophisticated disease detection tools
In the future, experts and scientists are ambitious to create tools that can detect disease as accurately as possible and as early as possible. Because, according to Hossam Haick, the faster a disease is detected, the easier it will be to handle it. His recovery opportunities will also increase.
This disease detection tool is also expected to be developed as a monitoring tool to analyze whether your body responds to a given treatment positively or you are more suitable for other treatments.
