Female, 22 years old, has been troubled by body odor for many years! Is there any way to solve it?

Netizens asked:

Hello. I am a 22-year-old college girl who has been troubled by body odor for many years.

Because of this, I feel miserable and I don't dare to have close contact with people. Especially in the summer, the smell is even stronger.

What are the current methods for treating body odor? Is there any way to completely get rid of the odor?

Although body odor is not harmful to human health and is not contagious, its pungent smell makes people feel particularly disgusted.

Especially in summer, sweat glands secrete more, sweat increases, and high temperature is suitable for bacterial reproduction. In addition, thin clothes have poor concealing effect, so the odor is more obvious.

So, what should we do about body odor?

In fact, body odor is a disease that is relatively difficult to cure.

On the streets and on the Internet, we often see advertisements for various deodorizing remedies and secret recipes. Obviously, these are unreliable.

If it is mild body odor, non-surgical methods are recommended, mainly local application of deodorants such as perfume that has an inhibitory effect on body odor.

In addition, personal hygiene is also very important.

If the body odor is more serious, you can use topical medications, injectable medications and laser treatment.

Topical medications can temporarily block the sweat gland ducts and inhibit the secretion of apocrine sweat glands; injectable medications are to inject bactericidal and astringent drugs, such as ethanol, into the armpits to shrink the apocrine sweat glands; laser treatment uses high-energy lasers to instantly carbonize and destroy the sweat glands on the skin.

However, the above methods cannot completely eradicate body odor.

If you want to solve the problem of body odor in one go, flap surgery and endoscopic axillary curettage are recommended.

It is important to note that surgery is not suitable for everyone.

For example, adolescents under the age of 18 are not suitable for surgery because their apocrine sweat glands are not yet fully developed and are prone to residual swelling, which increases the risk of recurrence after surgery. Severe diabetic patients have poor wound healing ability and are generally not recommended to undergo resection.

Of course, which method is the best depends on the condition and the individual.