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ANI
(TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2003)
LONDON: From ironing out the wrinkles out of a thousand celebrity
faces, Botox is all set to vanish odour from the armpits.
The latest study on the wonder drug by a team of scientists
from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich suggests that
as well as smoothing ageing skin, Botox injections into the
armpit can help to protect against body odour.
In one of the less pleasant tasks experimental subjects have
been required to undertake, 16 volunteers were asked to sniff
"armpit secretions" from each other and rank them
in order of the nastiness of the odour, according to a report
in The Independent.
Each volunteer was then injected with Botox, and seven days
later the test was repeated. The findings, published in Archives
of Dermatology, showed the treated armpits were drier and
scored better odour ratings.
The authors conclude that injections of Botox "can significantly
ameliorate the intensity and improve the quality of body odour".
Smelly armpits? Try botox.
BBC NEWS, Monday, 20 January, 2003
Botox, the drug of choice for people with wrinkles, may also
help those with smelly armpits.
Researchers in Germany have found that injecting the drug
into armpits can reduce sweating and body odour.
They tested their theory on 16 people. Each received a botox
injection in one armpit and a harmless solution in the other.
They each wore a t-shirt for 24 hours.
The area around the armpits was then cut out and given to
another group who were asked to rate the intensity of the
odour on a scale of zero for unpleasant to six for pleasant.
Smell test
According to researchers at Ludwig-Maximilian University in
Munich, pieces of the t-shirts which were exposed to armpits
which had not been treated with botox recorded an average
score of 2.69.
However, those that had been exposed to a botox-treated armpit
scored just 1.83.
The volunteers were then asked to rate smells from the t-shirts
on a scale of minus three for unpleasant to plus three for
pleasant.
The average score for t-shirts not exposed to a botox-treated
armpit was -1.14. This compares to plus 0.46 for t-shirts
exposed to armpits which had been injected with botox.
Marc Heckmann, who led the study, said armpits which had been
treated with botox were also much drier.
Elizabeth Jones, manager of the Boston Clinic in central London
which offers botox injections to the public, said it was an
effective treatment.
"I have had it myself," she told BBC News Online.
"It is very effective and very painless. It takes just
minutes and lasts for six months.
"You don't need to wear deodorant during that time. A
lot of our patients have had this treatment."
The study is published in the journal Archives of Dermatology.
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