What causes body odor? How can we solve it?

The most direct problem caused by underarm odor is the loss of opportunities for you to make friends with others. Underarm odor will make people feel less and less confident. So what causes underarm odor?

1. Hypertrophy of hair follicles:

Frequent plucking and shaving of armpit hair and applying topical medications will stimulate the proliferation and hypertrophy of hair follicles and increase the secretion of sweat, which will aggravate the condition. Whether body odor can be formed depends on whether the apocrine fluid secreted by you contains lipid substances, which form body odor under the action of bacteria.

2. Genetic factors:

More than 90% of patients have a blood-related inheritance. According to surveys, people whose parents both have body odor have a 50% to 80% inheritance rate, and if only one parent has body odor, the inheritance rate is 30% to 50%.

3. Function of apocrine sweat glands:

Because of the excessive secretion of the apocrine sweat glands under the skin of the armpits, body odor often coexists with hyperhidrosis. In summer, due to the increased secretion of sweat glands and the difficulty of sweat dissipating from the armpits, body odor is particularly severe in summer.

4. Bad habits:

Personal hygiene is closely related to the cause of body odor. Bad living and hygienic habits can easily lead to body odor. There are many parts of the human body that are not conducive to cleanliness, such as the breasts, groin, armpits, and umbilicus, which have many wrinkles and secrete more fluid than other parts. Young men and women like to wear tight clothes and jeans. Because the skin is close to the clothes, the secretion is prevented from evaporating, making these parts have high temperature and high humidity, and some bacteria will breed and decompose here, and produce a special odor.

5. Adolescence:

Body odor usually begins to occur during adolescence when sweat glands mature. The symptoms can be mild or severe. Mild cases can only be smelled by oneself, while severe cases can be smelled by others as well. After middle age, it may disappear without a trace due to the decrease in sweat gland secretion.

Special attention: armpit odor and sweat odor are different, so when there is sweat odor on the body, it is necessary to distinguish them. In addition, knowing the causes of armpit odor, now everyone can take active prevention measures against these causes to reduce the probability of occurrence.