Electrolysis against body odor

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#1

Hello,

I would like to know if anyone has experience with electrolysis against armpit odor (apocrine bromhidrosis).
I read that electrolysis might help. A brief description of how it might be helpful can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20050211210112/http://hairroute.com/subscriber/farticles/electrolysis_bromhidrosis.pdf
It is not studied very well, but I think it’s the best choice before doing a radical surgery with possible side effects. I’m aware that there are 3 different methods: galvanic electrolysis, blend and thermolysis. I guess blend would be the best options since it is using both heat and lye to destroy the hair follicle. I don’t know exactly which of the methods can damage the apocrine duct and therefore reduce the odor. I would guess all 3 methods work.
If anyone got electrolysis or treated patients with axillary odor, I would be glad if you could share your experience.

#2

Have you tried Botox for hyper hydrosis? Works very well.

#3

My problem is less the sweating by itself (hyperhidrosis) but the smell of the sweat. Botox is a treatment for hyperhidrosis and can block the sweat coming from the eccrine glands. My problem is actually the sweat from the apocrine glands that are more stimulated from epinephrine or norepinephrine rather than by acetylcholine. Botox is blocking the neurotransmitter acetylcholine as far as I know.

Electrolysis could help because the apocrine sweat glands open into the hair follicle and by damaging the hair follicle it might solve the problem.

#4

I’ve done thermolysis with the flash method on people with excessive sweating and it does reduce the sweating but all my clients say that the smell of sweat is reduced. This is because the smell comes from bacteria that clings to the hair. No hair…no odour.

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#5

The bacteria theory sounds very interesting.