I do not sweat but I still have a body odor.  I mean my underarms are never wet, but I still stink.?
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hmm... try a change of diet... do you eat alot of garlic?\n\nI'm not sure of course, just a guess, but it can't hurt to examine what you put into your body.
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Sweat is an odorless liquid.\nIt contains various salts (including sodium chloride) and urea dissolved in water.\nThis urea is the same as that excreted in urine (which also contains the same salts).\nSo in many ways sweat and urine are very similar.\n\nSweat from our armpits is unusual because it also contains proteins and fatty acids which over several hours are acted upon by skin bacteria and generate that stale odor.\n\nSweat on other parts of our body takes ages to get smelly - though you might prefer to have a wash before this happens!
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It depends upon the level of sweat and how much discharge you release at a given time.  During your period, the odor is stronger but can normally not be smelled by others.  Not all of them smell bad.
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Your body works best when its temperature is about 98.6º Fahrenheit (37º Celsius). When your body gets hotter than that, your brain doesn't like it — it wants your body to stay cool and comfortable. So the part of your brain that controls temperature, called the hypothalamus (say: hy-po-thal-uh-mus), sends a message to your body, telling it to sweat.\n\nThen special glands in your skin called — what else? — sweat glands start making sweat. Sweat is also known as perspiration (say: pur-spuh-ray-shun), and it is made almost completely of water, with tiny amounts of other chemicals like ammonia (say: uh-mown-yuh), urea (say: yoo-ree-uh), salts, and sugar. (Ammonia and urea are left over when your body breaks down protein.)\n\nThe sweat leaves your skin through tiny holes called pores. When the sweat hits the air, the air makes it evaporate (this means it turns from a liquid to a vapor). As the sweat evaporates off your skin, you cool down.\n\nSweat is a great cooling system, but if you're sweating a lot on a hot day or after playing hard you could be losing too much water through your skin. Then you need to put liquid back in your body by drinking plenty of water so you won't get dehydrated (say: dee-hi-drayt-ed).\n\n\n\nWhy Does Sweat Smell?\nSweat isn't just wet — it can be kind of stinky, too. But the next time you get a whiff of yourself after running around outside and want to blame your sweat glands, hold on! Sweat by itself doesn't smell at all. It's the bacteria that live on your skin that mix with the sweat and give it a stinky smell. And when you reach puberty, special hormones affect the glands in your armpits — these glands make sweat that can really smell.\n\nLuckily, regular washing with soap and water can usually keep stinky sweat under control. Many teens and adults also find that wearing deodorant (say: dee-oh-der-ent) or antiperspirant (say: an-tee-pur-sper-ent) helps.\n\nSo don't worry about a little sweat — it's totally normal and everybody sweats. Sometimes too much sweating can be a sign that there is something wrong in the body, but this is rare in kids. If you notice more sweat, it's usually just a sign that it's time to start using a deodorant or antiperspirant. But if you think you have a sweat problem, talk to your parent or your doctor about it.
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it could be your deoderant\n\nyou should see your doctor
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It's not uncommon for feet to sweat.  That they smell is indicative of a problem.  The skin on your feet isn't  breathing adequately.  \n\nTry wearing leather or cloth shoes.  No vinyl - meaning nothing man-made.  And, wear white, cotton socks.  Also, make sure to thoroughly dry your feet before putting your socks and shoes on.  \n\nIf the odor is still present, and it is localized (meaning that only your feet smell), and if they're itchy, then I would look to a fungal infection as the culprit.  Try the natural shoe material and white cotton socks before looking to a more serious problem.\n\nGood luck!
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I think it is when it reacts with the air once it dries. I know that if I have had a hard day (renovating a house at the mo) I can sweat and not smell straight away, but if I don't wash until the next morning there is definately an aroma!! Not that I leave it that long!!I also think it depends on the person and of course what you eat! I could be wrong but I'm just not a smelly person.
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no it doesnt mean u smell...atleast i hope u dont..lol\nit means\nu (female) are my only sweat-heart.\nwhy do u ask?\ndisd someone tell u this?\ngood luck
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The odor of a body that "stinks" is not due to the odor of sweat but is from the waste products of bacteria that live in the sweat. Corynebacteria and Micrococci are the usual suspects.
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sound like you have hyper-hidrosis there is a deodorant called aluminium chloride hexahydrate unfortunately I got mine from the doctors surgery in England. The other things that were suggested were wear loose fitting clothes, lose weight and buy a strong deodorant which you have already done. I have had hyper-hidrosis for four years and the deodorant works a treat.
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there is bacteria living on the surface of your skin, when you sweat the bacteria feed of the sweat and emit a gas that is the smell, so no bacteria means no smell, keep your feet clean and wear clean socks put baking soda or something in your shoes and you should be ok, if its really bad talk to your doc or something maybe he can prescribe something for stinkafootus!?!?!
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Here's the problem: Perfumes cover odor. Deoderant covers odor. Everything out there is designed to cover it. You need to eliminate it otherwise you'll keep smelling it.\n\nKeep washing, keep using deoderant, but also take a close look at your diet. Onions, garlic, sometimes peppers and other foods can cause odor to seep out through sweat pores. Even if you're barely perspiring, it might still be there.\n\nAnother part may just be your mind playing tricks on you since you are self-concious and noticing it. My girlfriend used deoderant but she still had her own personal scent. \n\nThere are sprays you can use and such. I might suggest this stuff called Approach. I've used it a few times when I knew I'd be sweating a lot and I'd have no chance to freshen up. You can find it online. Go to www.approachit.net and you can get it there.\n\nGood luck!
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Get Certain Dri. You will never sweat from your underarms. Eliminates all odor. Has no smell. Has no residue so it does not stain your clothes at all. It is a roll on you can get at any drug store in the anti-perspirant section. You put it on at night. Go to sleep. Wake up and take a shower. The residue of the anti-perspirant is gone, but you don't sweat or smell at all for a couple of days. And when I say you don't sweat or smell I mean it. I go to the gym and my shirt gets soaked except for under the arms. That is how well it works. I have not sweated under my arms for over ten years since starting to use this product, and nothing else was able to stop the sweat. You won't need any methods for hiding the sweaty pits if you use Certain Dri.  I used to wear a hoody to hide the sweat, and I did not need one after starting to use Certain Dri.
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The smell you are finding is due to moisture and warm conditions that allow bacteria to grow and multiply. Yes bacteria. The smell comes from the "output" of this bacteria as it feeds. The same thing is responsible for underarm odor.\n\nYes, this could be bad if it is not taken care of. First it is generally unhealthy to be covered in too much bacteria anywhere on your body (though you will always have some so don't worry). The area in question could become sore, chaff, and ever get infected. Luckily the fix is simple, wash it every day in the shower.
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maybe see a dermatologist, you might have some idiosyncrasies with regards to your underarm
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I think you should see a doctor.  There are medical conditions (sometimes serious ones) that can cause a person to have horrible body odor.  Don't take the chance of missing something, take him to see a doctor.  I'm sure he is probably very self conscious about it and wants to get to the bottom of the problem just as much as you do.  Kids can be cruel and I would hate for him to be teased for this in school.
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sweat mainly consists  of sodium chloride (commonly known as salt) and urea in solution, the chemicals or odorants 2-methylphenol and 4-methylphenol.\nwhen it is secreted out of the body,it doesn't smell.but after sometime the bacteria present in the air comes in contact and due to bacterial attack,some reactions takes place and thereby producing alcohols,acids which are smelly!