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My Question is Regarding Miradry. Odor is More my Problem than Sweat. Will This Procedure Help?
will this reduce or eliminate the oder? My shirts are so hard to wash because I use deoderant to mask the oder. I am 16 years old. I exfoliate, shave and scrub. I tried drysol, it iritated my skin and every deoderant and anti persperant that I can find. Please help. What else can I do?
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Helen1
in Michigan
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MiraDry for underarm sweat and odor
Yes, the MiraDry procedure helps eliminate odor related to sweat, which is also known as bromhidrosis. The MiraDry procedure utilizes microwave technology to selectively target and eliminate sweat glands in the armpits by focusing electromagnetic waves at a specific level in the body where sweat glands are located. MiraDry is the only device on the market that is able to eliminate both eccrine (normal sweat) apocrine ("smelly" sweat) glands. Botox injections also work to...
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Miradry helps sweat and odor
Miradry can help you with your problem of sweat as well as odor because it has an effect on both the eccrine glands (sweat glands) and apocrine glands (odor glands). The reduction of sweat may be great enough to eliminate need for strong antiperspirants and deoderants but will certainly reduce the sweat enough that these agents work much better. If odor continues to be a problem without a lot of sweat a prescription topical antibiotic gel applied at night can be helpful by reducing the...
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MiraDry for bromhidrosis - underarm odor
MiraDry is FDA approved for underarm hyperhidrosis but it also helps patients with coexistent bromhidrosis. I have seen this in my miraDry patients and it does help. The sweat (eccrine sweat) is water and electrolytes and originates from eccrine swet glands and miraDry destroys these glands. The oily secretions originate in apocrine glands and these glands are also destroyed histologically by the miraDry procedure.
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MiraDry Can Help Eliminate Both Underarm Sweat AND Odor
Dear Helen1,
miraDry is typically very effective for both reducing underarm sweat as well as underarm odor.
While sweat itself has little smell, the breakdown of sweat by bacteria that live on the surface of the skin leads to sweat byproducts that have a strong odor. Because miraDry eliminates sweating, there is no sweat to be broken down to the offensive waste products. Hence, the odor is usually eliminated. As it turns out, the elimination of underarm odor is the primary reason...
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Miradry and botox can be both very helpful
Odor in the armpits is the result of breakdown of sweat into malodorous products by the bacteria that live on the surface of the skin. By decreasing sweating odor will also decrease significantly since there is less substrate (sweat) for the bacteria to work on. Miradry accomplishes the decrease in sweating by selectively heating the sweat glands that reside in the skin. This procedure is long lasting. Botox works by decreasing the pumping ut of sweat from the sweat...
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Both perspiration and odor are improved by MiraDry treatment
In many people both perspiration and odor are improved by MiraDry treatment. Although most people seeking treatment are older than 18, we have success in teenagers as well.
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Before the treatment I used some of the stronger OTC anti-perspirants ( and ruined shirts when they didn't work, that yellow stain never washed out). I've now switched to just a deodorant and have no issue with stains or odor.