Causes of bromhidrosis include:
- Apocrine bromhidrosis and hyperhidrosis
- Eccrine bromhidrosis
- Foods
- Alcohol
- Curry
- Garlic
- Onion
- Drugs
- Metabolic disorders
- Phenylketonuria
- Trimethyaminura (fish odor)
- Sweaty feet syndrome
- Cat odor syndrome
- Isovaleric acidemia
- Hypermethioninemia
- Inadequate hygiene with bacterial overgrowth
- Diabetes
- Erythrasma
- Intertrigo
- Obesity
- Trichomycosis axillaris
- Foreign body in an orifice
- Mistaken odors- tobacco smoke, perfume, asparagus smell of urine after ingestion