Travel expert warns of physical function that airport scanners can drop after the passenger has been stopped by TSA

Nobody enjoys being stopped by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) when they try to catch a flight, and it can be even worse if it is for a humiliating reason.

A plane passenger recently fueled a debate about whether a particularly embarrassing physical function can cause security scanners after they had shared an uncomfortable incident while they were at the airport via via the airport Reddit.

The traveler explained that their ‘cross’ area was ‘marked’ while they went through the security scanner and that they had no idea why.

And many users wondered if it was due to excessive sweating in their pants.

“I flew this week for the first time in 15 years and both airports marked my cross on the arms-up scanner,” the traveler explained in their now viral Reddit post.

‘I don’t care about the knock, they were polite and professional and it doesn’t bother me, but I wonder what it did.

‘I am a medium-sized adult woman (169 pounds, five-foot eight-inch) and wore a bicycle short and normal underwear.

‘I have no medical devices or piercings, but I do have a womb fibroid. Nothing was in my pockets.

Can sweat cause airport scanners? A plane passenger recently led to a debate on the subject after they said that their ‘cross’ area was ‘marked’ during security (stock image)

‘Some thoughts about what it could have drawn up? I read that fibroids could possibly be alert, and both times it was exactly the same place on my groin. More just curious than anything, it made my wife and I laugh. ‘

People responded quickly to the post and many theoretized that cross sweat was the reason the person was stopped.

“Could be: clothing (baggy, etc.), sweat, position (not on footprints, too wide or too narrow), zipper, too many layers, reflective things, spirits, etc.,” wrote one person.

“Was you sweating?” Anyone else questioned.

“Sweat, female products (carrying, pillows, depends on it), can do anything but that seem to be,” added another.

Another user shared: “The last time I flew out of my Tampa airport, I was also searched, the guard said something nerve -racking such as” marsh rot “or” marsh cross “or something similarly embarrassing. “

Shawna Malvini Saving, a TSA expert, said that Sweat is one of those unique things that can indeed cause the scanner’s alarm.

‘Perspiration is probably the weirdest that the scanners can drop off,’ they are more detailed Reader’s Digest.

“I flew this week for the first time in 15 years and both airports marked my cross on the arms-up scanner,” the traveler explained in a now viral Reddit post (stock image)

“It has to do with millimeter golf technology and how the waves of water bounce.”

The expert also said that, because the machines can often cause false alarms, countries such as France and Germany have forbidden them.

It is more than just sweat that can be stopped, there is even a whole series of body characteristics that can cause the airport scanner.

Thick hair, hair clips, piercings, thread in underwear and external tumors can also increase the alarm.

However, you don’t have to worry. If something on your body is off the scanner, normally only a fast pat-down and you will be good to go.

The scanners made his debut after 9/11 and poured that they were so efficient that they could see the sweat on someone’s back, according to Propublica.

Trained offers learned to recognize normal sweat patterns so that they could detect a threat, said Kip Hawley, TSA manager from 2005 to 2009 according to the outlet.

She said that sweat officers actually helps to detect a threat, because if something had glued or brought something to the body, this would change the natural sweat pattern of a person.