Symptom: Body odor
Body odor: Unpleasant scents of the body
Detailed cause information for symptom: Body odor:
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Body odor type of: Odor symptoms (23)
Symptoms: symptom center, symptom groups, symptom descriptions
Possible causes of symptom: Body odor: The following medical conditions are some of the possible causes of Body odor as a symptom. There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor about your symptoms.
- Poor hygiene
- Breath odor
- Normal human body odor
- Normal puberty
- Normal aging
- Certain foods
- Eating garlic
- Eating curry or cumin
- Stale sweat
- Discharge
- Some conditions causing body odor despite adequate hygiene:
- Gastrointestinal disorders
- Diabetes
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Urinary tract infection
- Athlete's foot - causes foot odor.
- Scurvy
- Typhoid fever
- Fish odor syndrome - a very rare metabolic disease
- Sensitive sense of smell
- Psychological disorder - where the body odor is only perceived rather than real.
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