why do we sweat in our armpits - yet armpits are not exposed to the air so that the sweat can not evaporate?

Answer 1

it's a very warm area, quite logical we sweat there. As for absorption, why do you think you have armpit hair

Answer 2

Peter G has a good point. All of your skin has sweat glands. Including the skin that makes up your armpit. You will notice the sweat even more in your armpit because it is less likely to be absorbed or evaporate there.

Answer 3

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About 2% to 3% of the general population experience excessive sweating a condition called hyperhidrosis which can occur with or without a trigger. The most common type is called primary (or focal) hyperhidrosis and it has no known cause, although it seems to run in families. You may have a different type of excessive sweating called secondary (or generalized) hyperhidrosis.
This means that your symptoms may be due to an underlying medical condition or disease (e.g., nerve damage or a hormone disorder), or due to a side effect of a medication you are taking. Talk to your doctor.
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Answer 4

Perspiration, or sweat, is your body's way of cooling itself, whether that extra heat comes from hardworking muscles or from overstimulated nerves. The average person has 2.6 million sweat glands in their skin. Nerve cells from the sympathetic nervous system connect to the sweat glands to taell them when the body heat needs regulation.

There are two types of sweat glands. The eccrine glands, which we are born with and which are the most numerous, produce most of the sweat, particularly on the palms of the hands, soles of the feet and forehead and some in the underarms. These glands open directly onto the surface of the skin. Apocrine glands, which are triggered by emotions, develop in areas abundant in hair follicles, such as the scalp, underarms, and genitals. These glands only begin to secrete sweat after puberty,

The two glands differ in size, the age that they become active and the composition of the sweat that they make. is mostly water and it has high concentrations of sodium and chloride and a low concentration of potassium. The sweat from apocrine glands also contains proteins and fatty acids, which make it thicker and give it a milkier or yellowish color. This is why underarm stains in clothing appear yellowish. Sweat itself has no odor, but when bacteria on the skin and hair metabolize the proteins and fatty acids, they produce an unpleasant odor.

For sweat to evaporate it requires a certain amount of heat called the heat of vaporisation. This heat energy increases the speed of the water molecules so that they can escape into the air and sweat evaporates from the surface of your skin, it removes excess heat and cools you. This is why you find many sweat glands in warm hidden places!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

nobody hit it yet i think .... the liquid emerging from ur armpit even if it drips down without evaporating carries heat away ...all hair acts as a sort of heatsink to spread the surface area of the moisture out except where it grows thicker it serves a dual purpose of insulating also when its colder...

Answer 7

It's the skin rubbiing against yor body producing heat and moisture as yorr arm pits are covered by skin and clothes.
The hair only serves to make more heat thus producing more friction and sweat. If you have a nose that lays flat against you skin like a flab of skin (as does most blacks, and many whites) you can run yuor finger under it and feel moisture?sweat and the smell. it's just nature/genetics.
If you shave under your arm pits you will see a reduction in sweat and smell.

Answer 8

Its like your foot produces sweat, if you have your arms in open air it wont sweat because the CO2 and oxygen around you. Nitrogen and hydrogen is just swirling around you. So if you take off your shoes and only bare feet the sweatness evaporates.

Answer 9

your not going to believe this but it is true... I dont sweat ! and whats more i have hardly any underarm hair, just the slightest whisper .. i sweat in really really hot weather but nothing to shake a wet rag at lol :)

Answer 10

Nope to shaving the pits. Makes no distinction there. attempt utilising rubbing alcohol nonetheless, be conscious interior the morning and it enables cut back wetness, reapply utilising alcohol wipes later interior the day in case you get wetness. As to shaving the back, yeah this is a actual *****, impossible to do your self. we want a guy club the place adult men can circulate and get shaved.