Body odor

Body odor, also known as underarm odor, stinky sweat, is sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands (also called apocrine glands) of the patient's armpits, vulva, mouth corners, etc. The fatty acids are higher than ordinary people, and they are pale yellow and thick; At a certain concentration, the bacteria on the skin surface, mainly staphylococcus, break down to produce unsaturated fatty acids and emit an odor. It is similar to the odor removed by the fox's anus, so it is often called body odor. Most patients with body odor have a family genetic history, and statistics show that about 60% have a significant genetic predisposition. In addition, the ethnological tendency of body odor is particularly obvious. White, black, and brown races suffer from body odor. This is the overwhelming majority, so they are rare without body odor. Body odor is not a disease in their population In the west, the English word (BO) body odor is the meaning of body odor. Because the yellow body has a very light body odor (body odor), whoever has a heavy body odor (obvious body odor) will feel particularly pungent and is generally considered to be a disease. People with body odor will cause a heavy psychological burden, which will affect marriage, employment, further education, and making friends. Many patients caused abnormal personality and thinking, and body odor really became a disease --- a mental illness.

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