How to distinguish between body odor and sweat odor? How to distinguish between body odor and excessive sweating

For men, it is very normal to have body odor. If there is no body odor, how can we be called "stinky old men"? However, some people do not understand body odor, so they think that the sweat odor emitted from men's armpits is equal to body odor. This is actually a misunderstanding. So, how to judge body odor or sweat odor in life?

Differentiation between underarm odor and excessive sweating

1. Different causes of disease:

Bromhidrosis is mainly the secretion of the apocrine glands under the armpits of patients. The unsaturated fatty acids produced by the interaction of the bacteria on the body surface emit a special odor. This odor is called body odor because it comes from the armpits, and it is also called "body odor" because it resembles the smell of foxes. Sweat odor is a sour odor caused by excessive sweating or not taking a shower in time after sweating after work. Especially for patients with foot odor, they often have excessive sweating on the feet. Excessive sweat will decompose and produce a special odor. These are different from body odor.

2. Different symptoms:

Experts point out that although both armpit odor and sweat odor present symptoms of odor in the armpits, specifically, sweat odor is a sour smell, while body odor is a foul smell. In addition, armpit odor also has symptoms such as sticky sweat under the armpits, odor and yellowing of underwear, "greasy ears", white or light yellow secretions on the armpit hair, etc., so it is relatively easy to distinguish.