What to do if children have armpit odor

Some children have an unpleasant odor in their armpits. There are two possible factors that may cause this situation. One is the unpleasant smell of sweat secretions, and the other is the smell of body odor. If the former occurs, it is important to teach your children good hygiene habits to avoid this situation. If it is the latter case, we can use the advances in modern medicine and use other methods such as surgery to solve this problem. Below we will introduce to you in detail the causes of this condition and some surgical procedures.

Everyone has body odor, but the smell varies in severity. In history, Concubine Xiang also had body odor, but it was the fragrant type that people can easily accept. Military dogs use the smell of the human body to solve cases. The so-called underarm odor refers to the smell that can be smelled from 30 cm away under normal circumstances. It is normal for young people to have a strong sweat odor because sweat and urine only differ in concentration. In addition, some young people have a psychological effect. They think the smell is very strong, but others cannot smell it. They are just particularly sensitive, and they suspect that others can smell the smell based on any expression. This is actually a mental effect. If it is really body odor, surgical treatment is the only way. It will alleviate the symptoms but it is not a cure.

Treatment of underarm odor

Powder, Xishilan dew, reduce sweat gland secretion. Locally, 75% alcohol or 0.5% endorphin (PVP-I disinfectant) can be used to kill local bacteria.

The above treatments can only relieve symptoms. For a complete cure, surgical treatment must be chosen. Surgical treatments include laser destruction of apocrine sweat glands, sweat gland excision and apocrine sweat gland removal. The above three surgeries must be performed painlessly after local anesthesia. Laser treatment uses high-energy laser to instantly carbonize and destroy sweat glands on the skin. Its characteristics are fast treatment and no bleeding. The treatment effect is relatively reliable. Its disadvantages are large damage area, and the depth of laser burning of the skin is difficult to master for those with insufficient experience, and it is easy to miss apocrine sweat glands, resulting in unsatisfactory treatment results.

2. Skin sweat gland removal: The characteristic is to remove all sweat glands on the skin of the armpit. It has reliable curative effect and can completely cure underarm odor. The disadvantage is that the damage is too great, causing local skin defects, heavy bleeding, and stitches. Due to the high skin tension during suturing, the activity function of both upper limbs is restricted, which can easily cause wound infection and suture shedding, resulting in large surgical scars, affecting the activity function of the upper limbs. It is especially unsuitable for people with scar constitution. Therefore, this surgical treatment method is only suitable for patients with severe conditions who have not responded well to other treatment methods. Clinicians are very cautious in choosing this method.

3. Micro-incision apocrine removal: The method is to make an incision the size of a grain of wheat in the armpit, use a sweat gland remover to enter the armpit skin, carefully destroy the sweat glands and remove them from the body to achieve the purpose of curing underarm odor. Its characteristics are no surgery, no stitches, little damage, little bleeding, no pain, and no scars. It does not affect the patient's work, study, and life, and the patient can go to work after proper attention after the operation.

Above, we have focused on introducing some surgical methods to solve body odor, and we hope it will be helpful to all of us. The surgery is also determined by the individual. The severity of each person's condition is different, so you can decide based on your own situation. If the odor is caused by sweat, you can control hygiene so that this situation will not occur.