Is body odor contagious?

Body odor is a common and frequently occurring disease. Patients will have a strong and unpleasant odor on their bodies, especially after strenuous exercise, the odor will be more obvious. Now that medical technology is relatively advanced, many patients with body odor will choose to undergo axillary sweat gland removal surgery, but sometimes the treatment effect is not obvious. Body odor mostly occurs in adolescence and is hereditary. Some people can heal themselves when they are old. There are also many different treatments for body odor.

So is body odor contagious? This is also a question that everyone is concerned about. After all, body odor is currently a disease that is difficult to cure. Many people are worried that their roommates, colleagues, or friends will transmit body odor to them. This requires an analysis of the cause and pathology of body odor.

Body odor is a special unpleasant odor produced by the secretions of the sweat glands distributed on the skin surface of the body, such as the armpits, perineum, and back. It often occurs during adolescence. It may be alleviated or disappear in old age. Body odor is also hereditary and is related to gender and racial differences. For its treatment, you can use Chinese medicine lotion HC soap to clean your armpits every day. Mild patients can recover in 1-2 months. After recovery, you should pay more attention to hygiene. Can effectively prevent recurrence.

Bromhidrosis is a hereditary disease. If both parents have bromhidrosis, the chance of inheritance is as high as 80%. If one of the parents has bromhidrosis, the chance of inheritance is 50%. The occurrence of axillary odor is clearly related to genetics and can be passed on to the next generation. Bromhidrosis is a dominant trait. If a person has bromhidrosis and he has a son and a daughter, if the son inherits the disease but the daughter is normal, then the son's offspring may also be inherited, but the daughter's offspring will be fine. In other words, if you have bromhidrosis, then one of your parents must have it, and he/she may have had it surgically removed, or it may have automatically disappeared with age (after 40 years old), or you cannot detect it by using medication.

Reports of infectious cases show that body odor is caused by the decomposition of special unsaturated fatty acids secreted by apocrine sweat glands and the interaction with certain bacteria. The special nature of apocrine secretion is inherited and cannot be transmitted. However, some special bacteria can be transmitted through direct contact (usually occurs when couples are intimate or wear unwashed clothes of the patient, otherwise it is difficult for two people to have direct contact with their armpits, and those special bacteria can only survive in the armpits or genitals). However, since the apocrine sweat glands of the infected person are normal, the symptoms are very mild and can be cured after using bactericidal drugs, and can even recover on their own.

Since the apocrine sweat glands secrete more vigorously during adolescence, body odor is more common in young and middle-aged people. With the increase of age and the aging of the human body, the apocrine sweat glands gradually degenerate and the symptoms of body odor can be alleviated or disappear. Most patients have a family history of body odor. Patients with body odor should eat less irritating foods and quit smoking and drinking. Eating vegetables regularly is good for the human body. The fiber in vegetables is beneficial to bowel movements, thereby eliminating bacteria and toxins from the body, effectively reducing the amount of bacteria excreted from the skin through the sweat glands, and can help reduce body odor.

To sum up, body odor is actually not contagious. It is caused by the unpleasant odor secreted by one's own sweat glands and is not contagious. In addition, the majority of patients with body odor must pay attention to personal hygiene, take a bath frequently, especially in the summer, avoid overly strenuous exercise, and keep the armpits dry and fresh, which can effectively alleviate the smell of body odor.