The body odor is one of the body smells. It is also called the hircismus. The sweat to secrete from the apocrine sweat gland under the arm reacts with the bacterium in the skin to give off body smells. You may not notice body odor in person. You get used to it with your nose or have the perception that it smells originally. Because it is the part that neighboring people are hard to point out, you are no longer able to notice it.
You try to know the cause of the body odor, and why not prevent what you are able to do it by oneself? Today I will talk about the cause from now on.
7 causes of body odor you should know
No1: Your heredity and your constitution
To a person, there is the sweat gland called apocrine existing only in the limited places such as armpits or vulva rather than the whole body. It is the constitution of body odor that people have those things a lot. There is a person with many apocrine sweat glands as same as a person with many moles. It is due to heredity in many cases. It is said that it is inherited at the rate of 50% if one parent has body odor and 80% if both parents have. You may confirm whether your parents are troubled with it.
The cause of body odor is not heredity only and it is not infectious disease. Even if you use the same towel and wash clothes with the washing machine together, it does not pass to you.
No2: You spend the high-fat dietary life
If you have the figure of obesity since you like fatty dishes, meat dishes and dairy products, it will become one of the causes of body odor.
10% of Japanese have the constitution of body odor, but it increases to 80% in Europe and the United States. It seems to be caused by Western high-fat eating habits.
You should abstain from the intake of animal fats and proteins and like traditional Japanese foods with many vegetables and seaweed.
No3: Person with many underarm hairs
The sweat flowed from an apocrine sweat gland is odorless itself. However, bacteria occurs by touching the hair and it smells like that. Therefore the people with many hairs have many causes of odor.
If you can treat them, it is advisable to process diligently.
No4: Person with high-stress
When you are subjected to stress, the sweat gland is stimulated by it and sweat increases. And also crapula, unbalanced diet, irregular life, and hormone imbalance by the stress cause body odor.
You should have moderate exercise and release your stress. Brisk exercise makes you always break a sweat to excrete waste products and get refreshed with sweat.
Conversely, lack of exercise makes you break a sweat with moving just a little, the sweat is sticky and bad one for you. You should aim at a healthy body without stress.
No5: Person of hyperhidrosis
It is hyperhidrosis that has abnormally much sweat flowing from an eccrine sweat gland in the whole body. What a person with much sweat from an apocrine sweat gland breaks out in much sweat from an eccrine one as well will be conducive to diffusion of odor. There is high percentage of the people who have both hyperhidrosis and body odor.
As for hyperhidrosis, you can weaken the function of eccrine sweat gland for a certain period of time by having a Botox injection to your armpit more easily than an operation.
No6: Person with accessory breast
Usually there is a pair of breasts on a chest, but there may be other breast besides. It is an accessory breast, which is seen near an armpit. Originally it is what the apocrine sweat gland develops. Therefore it seems to be easy to become polyhidrosis with an accessory breast. 2% of men and 5% of women seem to have it. You may want to consult at the hospital, and be needed for an operation to remove it.
No7: Intake of stimulants such as spice
When you ate garlic, have you the experience that sweat came to make a whiff of garlic? The smell of the thing that you ate may be reflected on sweat. The fiery hot dishes and the dishes strongly worked of spices will cause sweating. The things with much caffeine become the stimulant like coffee or green tea even if not hot and increase sweating. Alcohol and cigarettes are stimulants, too. Nicotine stimulates sympathetic nerve and causes sweat. However, you should keep moderate drinking in mind because there are many people whose stress is reduced by drinking.
How about things mentioned above?
Even if you suffer from body odor very strictly, you are not sick. It is said to be a kind of pheromone. Thus, you have to take care that you do not become the phobia of odor of your own. It is because you may become too much sensitive and misunderstand that the people around you think you smell though it is not true. However, you should have manners enough not to bother people around. You are nervous moderately by knowing these causes and will live magnificently without succumbing the odor.
Summary
7 causes of body odor you should know
No1: Your heredity and your constitution
No2: You spend the high-fat dietary life
No3: Person with many underarm hairs
No4: Person with high-stress
No5: Person of hyperhidrosis
No6: Person with accessory breast
No7: Intake of stimulants such as spice