Summer can bring a host of pleasant smells: your neighbor’s dinner grilling in his backyard, freshly cut grass, and the earth after a thunderstorm. But summer heat can also bring smelly scents like sweat and body odor. Body odor masked by strong perfume can be especially pungent.
Dr. Yu Yawen from Shangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic in Taiwan provides a few practical ways to eliminate odor due to sweating. However, if the odor problem is severe enough, Dr. Hu Yixuan of Jingyan Dermatology Clinic in Taiwan shares four surgery options and their pros and cons.
4 Body Odor Facts
There are two types of sweat glands in the human body: eccrine and apocrine. Spread all over the body, eccrine glands secrete clear, thin sweat and are the primary source of human sweat. Eccrine gland sweat is odorless, but when bacteria on the skin decompose its protein, it produces a nasty, sweaty smell….