What should men do about underarm odor?

It is very troublesome for men to have underarm odor. Although it is not very harmful, it often makes us embarrassed in some occasions, so we must pay attention to this symptom. In fact, there are many ways for male friends to choose to deal with underarm odor. In the following article, we will introduce to the majority of male friends what to do with underarm odor.

1. Electrolysis or electrocautery

The principle is to insert a metal needle into the hair follicle along the direction of hair growth, and then use the heat effect to damage the hair follicle, thereby destroying the apocrine sweat gland. This method is simple and easy to perform, with little damage and relatively cheap equipment.

Its disadvantages are: 1. It is time-consuming and laborious, and needs to be inserted into each hair follicle one by one, and needs to stay in each hair follicle for a period of time; 2. It is difficult to properly control the depth of penetration into the skin, which sometimes results in poor results, and sometimes excessive treatment produces hypertrophic scars.

2. Microwave and radio frequency therapy

It uses heat to destroy hair follicles, and the target is the hair-dense area of ​​the armpit. Although the technology is easy to operate, it also has the disadvantage of being difficult to control the depth of treatment. If the treatment area is too large and too deep, complications are more likely to occur; if the treatment range is too limited, the effect is greatly reduced. In addition, microwave treatment is not as targeted as electrolysis and cautery, and it also causes greater damage to the normal tissues around the hair follicles, and sometimes the local inflammatory reaction is more severe.

3. Laser therapy

It is a general term. There are many types of lasers, and new technologies are emerging one after another. CO2 laser is a thermal effect laser, and its side effects are relatively large when used to treat underarm odor. Some people also use hair removal laser to treat underarm odor. The theoretical basis is that the apocrine sweat glands and hair follicles together constitute a unit. When the hair follicles are selectively destroyed by the laser, the apocrine sweat glands will also be destroyed.

4. Botox

It is well known that Botox can inhibit the release of acetylcholine in the presynaptic membrane of the neuromuscular junction. Studies have shown that apocrine sweat glands, eccrine sweat glands, etc. can be stimulated to secrete by choleretic drugs, and Botox can inhibit the secretion of apocrine sweat glands and other glands by inhibiting choleretic effects. Although the number of related cases is not large at present, and it can only be maintained for a short time, this treatment method has many advantages, such as being simple and easy to perform and less invasive.

In the above article, we introduced a symptom that is common in men, that is, axillary odor. We know that there are many ways to treat axillary odor in men. We can use laser to deal with axillary odor, or we can use microwave and radio frequency to treat axillary odor.