Medical road ahead

"He had undergone surgery before, but the effect was not good. When the weather is hot and he sweats a lot, his underarms still smell bad."

Gu Xiaoying frowned, and said puzzledly: "Director Xu, why do you need to treat body odor first? Even if you need to continue the treatment, it won't be finished in three or five days, but my mother has already come to C City, so there is a big difference between the two of us." After divorce, she will not go back."

Director Xu said patiently: "Let me ask you, why do your parents disagree with your marriage?"

"Because Xu Hui has body odor, and our hometown regards body odor as a terrible 'vector disease', which is equivalent to AIDS." Gu Xiaoying explained.

Director Xu nodded and said, "Since this is the case, the root cause is Xu Hui's body odor problem. Then, when Xu Hui has completely cured the body odor, wouldn't it be more convincing for me to talk to your mother?"

"But body odor is hereditary. The reason why we call body odor a 'vector disease' is because it can be passed on to the next generation. Therefore, even if Xu Hui's body odor is cured, my mother still worries that our children will inherit it. This problem." Gu Xiaoying frowned and said.

"Little Gu, you probably haven't studied the pathology of body odor, have you?" Director Xu asked with a smile.

"No, when I met Xu Hui, he had already had an operation. I only knew that he had this disease, but I didn't ask in detail. He also paid attention to personal hygiene, and he didn't affect us because of body odor. daily life." Gu Xiaoying shook her head.

Director Xu smiled and said: "Actually, body odor is divided into hereditary and acquired. Not all of them are inherited in families, and the treatment methods for familial body odor and acquired body odor are also different. Therefore, you need to figure out where Xu Hui is. A kind of body odor, if it is acquired, is not only better cured, but also less likely to be passed on to future generations."

"And nature and nurture?"

Gu Xiaoying suddenly realized, and immediately took out her mobile phone to call Xu Hui, "Hello! Do your parents have body odor?"

Seeing this, Director Xu and Chen Tiancheng couldn't help smiling at each other.

"No? Are you sure?"

After confirming that Xu Hui's parents did not have body odor, Gu Xiaoying was pleasantly surprised, "I didn't know that body odor can be divided into congenital and acquired. I always thought that body odor was a genetic disease, and people in our hometown also thought so."

"Study more in the future, you are a nurse." Chen Tiancheng said angrily.

"Yes Yes Yes!"

Gu Xiaoying smiled and lay flat and mocked, and then asked Director Xu: "If Xu Hui's body odor is completely cured, is it possible to convince my parents to accept our marriage?"

"Yes."

Director Xu smiled and nodded, and further explained: "Even if I persuaded your parents to accept Xu Hui, if Xu Hui's body odor cannot be cured, sooner or later people in your hometown will find out, and the situation will be even more difficult to deal with. Therefore, the key to solving this matter lies in eradicating Xu Hui's body odor problem."

"Director Xu is right."

Chen Tiancheng nodded in agreement: "Convincing your parents is the 'Biao', and curing Xu Hui's body odor problem is the 'Basic'. You can't let him go back to your hometown with you for the rest of your life, can you?"

"Well, we must try to cure his body odor, no matter how difficult it is!"

Gu Xiaoying clenched her fists and made a solemn decision.

Two days later, Gu Xiaoying took Xu Hui to find Li Hang, the chief physician in the dermatology department who is good at treating body odor, and asked him to cure Xu Hui's body odor problem.

So far, body odor still lacks a set of more objective diagnosis and judgment methods, and it is usually judged by the sense of smell, which is divided into four grades.

Grade 0, no odor;

Class 1, odor only after physical exertion;

Level 2, there is a slight odor within 1 meter from the armpit;
Level 3, the smell can be smelled 1 meter away from the armpit.

Since Xu Hui has already undergone laser surgery, his current condition belongs to level 3. However, this kind of surgery has the disadvantage of incomplete removal of apocrine glands, so there will still be residual odor after surgery, and Xu Hui's current problem is precisely this kind.

He once considered using traditional surgery to incise the skin in the hairy area of ​​the armpit to completely destroy the sweat glands and hair roots, but the complications of this operation are more serious. Areas of necrosis appear, such as blisters and skin color turning dark brown.

So, he ended up opting for conservative treatment, using antiperspirants and deodorants to ease the problem of increased body odor in the summer.

"Actually, there are many ways to treat body odor, but due to individual differences and other circumstances, there is a common problem of incomplete treatment, and the same is true for Xiao Xu's situation." Li Hang analyzed.

Hearing this, Gu Xiaoying frowned, "Doctor Li, can he still be treated?"

"If it really doesn't work, let's have another operation." Xu Hui gritted his teeth and said.

"Take it easy, both of you."

Li Hang raised his hand to appease the anxious emotions of the two, and then continued: "In the past few years, I usually use minimally invasive surgery to treat body odor patients, and the effect is not bad. The most important thing is that minimally invasive The postoperative complications of surgery are relatively small.”

"Minimally invasive surgery? Is it the suction method?" Xu Hui asked.

Li Hang smiled, nodded and said, "That's right, it seems that Xiao Xu is also researching new methods to treat body odor in private."

"Bad! Isn't this a long-term illness?" Xu Hui blushed, and then said: "However, although the suction method has small wounds and small scars, the sweat glands are not completely removed, and it is easy to relapse. I have been hesitant to choose this surgery."

"You are right. The suction method uses a suction device to remove subcutaneous fat and sweat glands. It is easy to operate and has few side effects, but the postoperative effect is not as good as traditional surgery. Therefore, I usually recommend that moderate to severe patients choose three Items of minimally invasive combined application to achieve the best results and the slightest complications." Li Hang said.

"The combined application of the three minimally invasive procedures? What kind of surgery is this?" Gu Xiaoying was curious.

Xu Hui also showed a puzzled expression.

Li Hang explained: "In addition to the suction method, there are pruning methods and scratching methods.

The pruning method, as the name suggests, is to make a small incision in the skin of the armpit hair area, then turn the skin on both sides of the incision to expose the subcutaneous tissue, then cut off the axillary gland and other tissues, and finally suture and bandage.

The scratching method is to make a small incision of about 1cm in the area of ​​​​the edge of the armpit hair, and then use a special tool to scrape off the sweat gland tissue.The surgical incision of this method is very small, and the scope of operation is not limited, but the recurrence rate is higher.

Therefore, combining the advantages and disadvantages of these three minimally invasive surgeries, I have developed a combined surgery method, especially for moderate to severe patients, which has a good surgical effect. Of course, good personal hygiene habits and health should be maintained after surgery. In order to completely bury the body odor. "

"Then choose joint surgery, I believe in Dr. Li's skills." Gu Xiaoying said hastily.

"Then trouble Dr. Li."

Xu Hui got up and shook hands with Li Hang to thank him, and then asked with frowned eyebrows: "Doctor Li, since neither of my parents have body odor, why do I have this problem?"