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Re: Strange sweat odor

Posted by bleauberry on July 19, 2010, at 19:50:30

In reply to Re: Strange sweat odor, posted by ed_uk2010 on July 16, 2010, at 17:09:28

Though this explanation makes sense on paper, it does not really fit. I say that because, if the person's odor is anything like the one I experienced, it does not wash off no matter what. You can scrub scrub scrub with hot water and potent soap and whatever else you want for 20 minutes, and as soon as you get out of the shower and begin to dry off, guess what, there is that odor again. It doesn't wash off. It is not ON the skin. It is within, wreaking from the inside out, not sitting on the outside, and not the result of bacteria or fats or whatever on the outside.

> >If that much odor is making its way through the skin, just imagine how much is circulating around inside your veins and brain. It's coming out your skin because there is so much of it.
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> It doesn't work like that. Freshly perspired sweat is actually almost odourless. Micro-organisms which live on the surface of the skin convert odourless chemicals present in sweat into volatile compounds which smell rather errrr stinky.
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> Certain parts of the body (eg. the armpits and genitals) have a different type of sweat gland: apocrine glands. Apocrine glands secrete a different type of sweat which contains fatty substances. It is the bacterial breakdown of these substances on the surface of the skin which creates the body odour.
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> Many antidepressants, especially clomipramine, can considerably increase sweating. This can be dealt with in some cases by using an aluminium chlorohydrate antiperspirant on the armpits at night. Concentrated aluminium antiperspirants can be very effective when used on small areas but they frequently irritate the skin.
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> Antibacterial products can be applied to the skin in order to reduce the population of odour-causing bacteria. An antibacterial wash should be used on all the parts of the body which cause the odour. Try to use the wash twice a day.
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> Hope this helps.


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