some people do smell in their body, not because they are dirty but it seems to be a condition, how to treat?

Question

Are there medications that one can use? can the condition be treated or managed. The condition is unbearable as the gas spread in the whole house particularly in the morning. Please advise

Answer 1

Check with your doctor. If your embarassed to go to the doctor just keep in mind that they've seen everything and a lot worse things.

Answer 2

omg lady penolpe has just answered the question with no probs, body odour is a natural thing. You smell more in the morning as you are just laying there with no ventilation no way for sweat to get out. Where's in the day you are moving about so it is not so noticeable. Did you know smell from your future partner is what atracts you to them (sorry about the writing i am a bit thick this morning) Ldy peneople has hit the nail on the head.

Answer 3

All people smell.

What you smell of is determined by many things - what you eat, what you drink, whether you smoke, what your personal hygiene is like, how well your digestive system is working, whether you've looked after your teeth, bacteria on your skin.

Any and all of these can affect how someone smells.

Excessive gas could be caused by eating too quickly, eating the wrong sort of foods, lack of exercise, lack of water, or a number of medical conditions.

Answer 4

**First of all open all the windows in the morning to let fresh air in, thgen close the toilet door nice and firm when you use it.!!!

*My advicee would be to look at your diet and cut out spicey foods or fatty foods that are highly flavoured as tehscent comes out in youe sweat..not very nice. Addiitonally, drink a lot of water ( non of that flaoured stuff). In the mornings drink at least one cup of warm water with a slice of lemon to help flush out your system, *

*Try and cut down on procesed foods and eat more natural products at least for a week to give oyur kidney's and liver a break. Eat slowly, chewing your food more times before swallowing as dijestion starts in the mouth,

* Its basically a bit of trial and error to see what foods make the Bo scent worse then either cut it out altogether or limit your intake of it.

Good Luck.

Pulchramay

Answer 5

Body odour must be one of the greatest antisocial epidemics of our times. It seems you cannot go anywhere on the underground, on a bus, along a busy shopping mall or into a pub without noticing that unpleasantly distinctive, acrid, penetrating and pungent stale sweat smell produced by human bodies, usually male.

So what's the problem? Are men simply behaving badly and refusing to wash, or do a proportion of our community suffer from some specific medical problem?

A 'blind spot' for smells

Strange as it may seem, most people with bad body odour are blissfully unaware that they smell. In many people, the sense of smell has become so rudimentary that there are certain molecules that their nostrils are simply insensitive to. They may be able to detect the smell of garlic or curry, but the smell emanating from their armpits appears not to register with them at all. This has been proven scientifically. The pity is that for the majority of us, we are all too aware of their embarrassing problem.

What is the cause?

Everybody sweats. They have to. Perspiration is the body's biological way of relieving heat, and while sweat itself does not have an odour, it is a wonderful culture medium for the bacteria that normally live on our skin and which break it down into aromatic fatty acids. These are the substances that produce the unpleasant odour.

Logically, therefore, the problem of body odour can be tackled in one of two ways, or even both - by reducing the amount of sweating and by treating the bacteria that produce the odour.

Personal hygiene

It is a sad indictment of modern life that there should be a need to talk about personal hygiene on a medical website. However, a careful daily routine of thorough washing using soap, particularly in areas of the body where the sweat producing glands are numerous, say in the armpits, groin and feet areas, is essential in removing the sweat and reducing the numbers of bacteria that act upon it.

Since some people have more sweat and oil producing glands than others, it stands to reason that they might need to wash thoroughly with soap twice or even three times a day.

The use of commercial antiperspirants and deodorants should also be routine, and it's worth trying a few different ones out as many have different active ingredients, and some work better for some people than others.

Another useful trick is, if necessary, to shave the armpits as armpit hair provides a greater surface area for sweat to adhere to and gives the bacteria a fertile breeding ground.

It is also essential to wash clothes thoroughly in a hot, soapy wash, and in particular clothing that comes into contact with particularly sweaty areas such as socks, underwear and shirts.

Never wear yesterday's clothes as, however clean your body is, the clothes will retain the smell of yesterday's stale sweat.

Help from the chemist

An antibacterial and antiseptic solution called chlorhexidine 0.05% solution is available over the counter at pharmacies. This is applied daily and significantly reduces the number of bacteria, although it has no action on sweating itself.

Another very useful preparation available for purchase without prescription is 20% aluminium chloride solution, otherwise known as Anhydrol forte. This is used at night-time on armpits and feet that have been thoroughly washed and dried.

It's best to apply it when lying down in bed as sweating stops when you are resting and the solution will therefore be more effective. The liquid gets into the openings of the sweat glands causing them to swell up and block. The solution should never be applied directly after shaving as it might otherwise irritate the skin and it should be washed off in the morning, and not reapplied until the next bedtime.

To begin with the application should be done every night and then as it becomes effective, it can be reduced to every other night or once or twice a week.

Treatment of severe sweating

There are two other main surgical options. One is to remove a triangular area of skin in the apex of the armpit under local anaesthetic. A small piece measuring 4cm by 1.5cm is removed, which effectively eradicates the most troublesome sweat glands. A modern variation on this procedure sucks the sweat glands out from the deeper layers of skin through liposuction.

The second main surgical option is something called a trans-thoracic sympathectomy. Here, the nerves that control sweating are destroyed using keyhole surgery. This first requires a general anaesthetic. Then, an incision is made in the armpit and a fine needle is passed under the second, third and fourth ribs on each side, destroying the nerves using electrical current.

The success rate is about 40 per cent although, because the body still has to sweat, some people find after the operation that they experience increased sweating from other sites of the body, mainly the chest, abdomen and back. This is important to appreciate before undergoing surgery, as the operation cannot be reversed.

Botox

A more recent alternative to surgical sympathectomy to control excessive sweating and body odour is treatment with botulinum toxin A (also known as Botox and used more frequently to cosmetically abolish frown lines on the forehead). However, Botox for sweating reduction is only licensed as a treatment for axillary hyperhidrosis - excessive sweating from the armpit - so cannot be expected to help with sweaty hands or feet.

A small amount of the toxin is injected into multiple sites in the skin at the apex of the armpit at positions where standard staining techniques have identified the problem (eg Minor's iodine-starch test). This is an effective and safe therapy and although it's action is temporary, lasting only a few weeks, it does carry the advantage of enabling patient and doctor alike to assess it's efficacy and the likely efficacy of the more permanent and invasive surgical alternative of sympathectomy if this is being considered.

Answer 6

The body smell is sometimes caused by the food they eat. So, its internal. Body smell is contagious. If deodorizers are not effective in this case, let the person try wiping fresh lemon juice on the armpit after bathing. If it is still not effective, apply "tawas" powder. Let his/her drink more water to sweat that foul odor out his/her body!

Answer 7

Some very hy-genic people can give off body odour. It may be due to ill-ness, changes in the body, or it may just be a smell that is part of their biological make-up, just an odour that is in keeping with their race.[ no offence meant]

Answer 8

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