Can body odor be cured?

Body odor is mainly caused by the body's sweat glands breaking down sweat due to bacteria, which produces a foul odor. This symptom is basically more common during adolescence, so we should avoid the occurrence of body odor due to long-term and excessive exercise and sweating in daily life. People with hyperhidrosis are generally accompanied by the occurrence of body odor. It is more obvious in the summer and the effects that cannot be achieved through treatment are difficult to achieve.

For people with mild body odor, they can change clothes and take baths frequently to relieve the symptoms. For those with severe symptoms, some sprays can be used to relieve the symptoms. Patients who undergo physical therapy experience different symptoms, and this technology is relatively less sophisticated.

Bromhidrosis is more common in areas where sweating is excessive, sweat is difficult to evaporate, and where apocrine sweat glands are located, such as the armpits, groin, feet, perianal area, vulva, navel, and under the breasts of women. Bromhidrosis of the feet and armpits is the most common. Foot bromhidrosis is often accompanied by excessive sweating of the feet and has a pungent odor, which is more obvious in summer. Axillary bromhidrosis, commonly known as body odor, is a special pungent odor that is more obvious in summer. In a few patients, the vulva, perianal area and areola may also emit this odor. Most patients have soft cerumen in the external auditory canal. Patients often have colored sweat, mostly yellow.

Nonsurgical treatment

Apply topical medications for treatment. Apply antibacterial agents to inhibit bacteria in the armpits; apply antioxidants to inhibit fatty acid formation; use adsorbents to absorb fatty acids; or use perfumes to cover up the odor.

Injection therapy uses urethane, alum, hydroalcohol, urea, formalin, etc. to be injected into the skin of the bilateral armpits to destroy the glands or block their drainage pathways. Injection should be done to avoid causing skin necrosis.

Physical therapy uses laser, high-frequency electroacupuncture, freezing, etc. to destroy the sweat glands in the axillary hair area and block the glandular secretions through the formation of skin scar tissue, causing gland atrophy. The treatment effect is short-lasting, the recurrence rate is high, and the scar is relatively obvious.

Through this article we can learn about the treatment of body odor. Physical therapy may cause scars of varying degrees, which is unacceptable for many patients. Therefore, the various treatments for body odor are relatively incomplete. We can alleviate the symptoms appropriately in daily life.