Common Causes of Strong Body Odours (BOs)

Growing up in the backward settings of my village in the 1970s, we used to suffer the unbearable stench issuing from some of our peers. To many of us in absolute ignorance, we thought they were either rotting away or suffering from some very dangerous internal condition totally unknown to them.

Health professionals Identify the following as some of the cardinal causes of BOs:

Fungal and Bacterial infections

Infections to your skin by bacteria or fungus could be the reason you have a bad body odour. When conditions such as ring-worms affect the skin, a bad smell is generated and this sometimes gets so offensive that the affected individuals are forced to stay away from social interactions.

Hormonal changes

Although Body odour could be a condition external to the body, some of the most nauseating BOs are generated from within the body of the affected person. In young people still growing, there are usually hormonal changes from time to time. This explains why adolescents are the most affected by BOs. The situation becomes even more serious once the affected person sweats or fails to observe strict personal hygiene.

Kidney and liver diseases or dibetes

These diseases also have the tendency of letting bad body smell due the metabolic processes that these diseases subjects the body. Sometimes your BOs could act as indicators of some of these undiagnosed ailments so it only serves you well to seek medical advise if you have an offensive BO.

Certain foods

BO is also to a large measure attributed to the foods we eat. People who eat over-spiced foods with heavy garlic content have a permanent BO that gets worse in proportion to the quantity of such foods eaten. Apart from garlic, such foods as eggs, fish or beans taken repeatedly could also give you an offensive BO

Some recommended remedies

Lemons and ginger taken in tea or squashed in form of juice have been proven to effectively reduces the impact of BOs. Rubbing the lemon fruits onto your skin could also treat BOs. But seeking out medical advise from professional medical practitioners could save you the shame of living perpetually with a nauseating and acrid body odour.