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Thursday 6 March 2014

BODY ODOUR

Generally our mind and body is the main reason for Body odour. The effect of various feelings like more happiness, more sorrows, high tension, more sexual feelings forms the main reason for mind related body odour. During these time, all the glands act fast and generates more liquid inside the body. Due to this, colourless, odourless comes outside our body along with Bacteria and it mixes with sweat to form Body odour.
Moreover the type of food we intake more also lead to the body odour. Onion, Garlic, certain type of fishes, lavender, some masala items are main reasons for Body odour. Fatty people have high amount of Bacterias in action and hence more odour occur. Diabetes patients are also the victims of this body odour.

Physiology

Two types of glands produce sweat, the eccrine glands and the apocrine glands..

The eccrine glands are dispersed throughout the body but are concentrated in the armpits, palms of the hands, soles of the feet, and the forehead. When the body is overheated - from hot weather, physical exertion, or fever -the eccrine glands help regulate body temperature by expelling a solution of water and salts that cools the skin.
The apocrine glands are concentrated in the armpits and around the groin. These glands develop during puberty and have nothing to do with temperature regulation; instead, they respond to such conditions as sexual arousal, nervousness, and anger, as well as to heat and exertion. The sweat they produce is rich in organic substances that attract bacteria and produce a strong odour. Other reasons could be the purely the faulty lifestyles1 or emotional stresses like in ovulation or menopause when the hormones trigger the apocrine glands to produce the characteristic smell.

Actually sweat is bodys most convenient way of maintaining homeostasis or keeping cool. But when the temperature spurts above the normal there are about 2.5 million sweat glands, which act as tiny air-conditioners in maintaining the homeostatic balance. Surprisingly our sweat has no odour of its own. It usually smells bad only when the bacteria act on the sweat after reaching the skin surface. Normally most people tend to combat bad body odour with products like deodorants or body sprays as a solution. But it can only diminish the effects temporarily. In fact bad body odour (B.O) indicates that youre disturbed emotionally or physically.

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