YSK there is a condition that makes your armpits smell worse called trichobacteriosis that is common and easy to treat

I was talking about hygiene with my partner who is a nurse and they were telling me that a lot of people remark that their armpits are smelling worse than normal and they are using more and more deodorant and people just think it is normal.

Trichobacteriosis looks like a yellowish coating on some of your armpit or groin hair and you need to shave and wash the area every day for 2 weeks. It is more common in men than women in the US only because it is more common for women to keep their armpits shaved. Most of the patients who are affected by it think that its actually residue from the increasing amounts of deodorant they end up using.

foggy ,

Yo that's funny. Maybe twice in my 20s I had a bout where I was like "damn my pits stank"

I basically unscientifically concluded that I had soaked my armpit hair in smelly armpit sweat, and every time e the armpit hair got sweaty it was releasing a stale stench. Like the hairs themselves were the problem, I figured.

So I trimmed my armpit hair.

Problem solved, both times.

Then in my 30s, a bandmate was like "yo my armpits stank" and I was like "homie it sounds odd but just trim your pits." Worked for him too.

So, my unscientific alternative, faster solution is to just shave your pits.

MyNamesNotRobert ,

Huh, I'm going to try shaving my armpits. I'm a smelly guy and I seem to need to use a lot of deodorant to keep it under control.

foggy ,

Just use a beard trimmer, you do t gotta go all the way.

Ingrown hairs in your armpit are bad news

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