Sweat odor may be caused by physiological factors and pathological factors (such as fox odor as well as hyperhidrosis) and other reasons. According to the different causes, general treatment, drug treatment, surgical treatment and so on should be chosen.
1. Physiological factors: prolonged inactivity, sweat can not be discharged in a timely manner, excessive accumulation of toxins in the body, sweat odor when sweating. This is a normal physiological phenomenon, generally do not need special treatment, just drink more water, appropriate exercise to promote sweat and toxin discharge, so as to improve the symptoms of sweat odor.
2. Pathological factors:
(1) Fox odor: sweat glands secreted by the excreta of organic substances by the bacterial decomposition of the skin surface, resulting in unsaturated fatty acids and the odor of sweat, can be treated with surgical methods, commonly used surgical methods, such as sweat gland excision, etc., to achieve the role of inhibiting sweat secretion, but also to achieve rapid improvement in the effect of fox odor, thereby alleviating the odor of sweating.
(2) Hyperhidrosis: Excessive excretion of sweat from the skin is called hyperhidrosis. Excessive sweating and cause sweat odor. It can be treated with topical 0.5% aluminum acetate solution, whose main function is to infiltrate the hyperhidrosis area, which can relieve the skin lesions and stop the effect of sweating, so as to improve the odor of sweating.
If the patient has sweat odor, after excluding physiological factors, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to find out the cause of the disease after targeted treatment.