How to treat excessive underarm sweating and odor

Most people sweat more in their armpits than anywhere else on their body, due to the larger sweat glands in the armpits. However, sweating under the armpits often leads to embarrassment, and it is a common experience for everyone to get clothes wet due to excessive sweat. In addition, underarm sweating is often accompanied by odor, and the unpleasant odor distances us from others. So how do you treat underarm sweat and odor? Now let me tell you.

1. Pay attention to your diet. Don't eat too much spicy and irritating food, especially things that produce odor such as raw onions, which will emit an unpleasant odor when they are converted into sweat and excreted through the body's metabolism. You should eat more foods rich in calcium, such as milk, soy products, dried shrimp skin, kelp, fish, bone soup and green leafy vegetables.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine massage. Stand up the tip of your thumb and press Hegu acupoint vigorously for 2-3 minutes until you feel obvious soreness at the local point. Then use the tip of your thumb to gently rub Fuliu in a clockwise direction for 3-5 minutes, and you will feel a slight soreness and swelling at the local area of ​​the acupoint. The Fuliu point is about three fingers upward from the midpoint between the tip of the medial malleolus and the posterior edge of the Achilles tendon. Note that Hegu point is the key point, and Fuliu point should be massaged gently.

3. Use antiperspirants

If the above methods are not effective, you can consider using an antiperspirant. Some ingredients in antiperspirants can block the sweat gland ducts that produce sweat, help the secretory cells to atrophy, and ultimately achieve the purpose of reducing sweat secretion.

4. Drink more lactic acid

Drinking lactic acid drinks regularly is very effective in treating body odor. Lactic acid drinks can inhibit the growth of bacteria in the body, thereby reducing the amount of bacteria excreted from the skin through the sweat glands, because bacteria do not like to grow in an acidic environment.

5. Treatment remedies

If your armpits have odor, you might as well make your own talcum powder. You can choose dried tangerine peel (also known as orange peel, which can be dried after eating, but it must be very dry), dried lemon peel, lavender, rose or chamomile, and grind them into fine powder (not prickly). After taking a shower, gently pat your armpits. This will deodorize without clogging your pores.

If excessive sweating under the armpits is not treated in time, it will provide a good development environment for bacteria, and may eventually cause body odor, so we cannot ignore the sweating under our armpits. In addition to the above methods, timely shaving and correct selection of clothes can also help to reduce the amount of sweat and feeling under our armpits.