Though perspiration is odorless, it does obtain an odor once it comes into contact with bacteria on your skin. Some of the more serious consequences of sweating can include several medical conditions.

Eccrine glands are all over your body while the apocrine glands are in your hair follicles. It evaporates and cools your body. Most of us are aware of how much we sweat (or don't sweat).

This happens when the pores around your sweat glands become. You also can have more bacterial infections and warts. First, people who over sweat have a higher tendency to get fungal infections. A more com side effect is a heat rash and/or prickly heat. It is a fact of life we all sweat.

Fungus lives in a warm, moist environment (which is why you are more likely to get an infection in your toenail that has been stuck inside sweaty shoes versus your finger nail). Eccrine glands and apocrine glands. As your body temperature is rising, your eccrine glands release fluid (perspiration) onto your skin.

Some of us sweat when we exercise, when we are hot, when we are nervous, or when we are under stress.