Excessive sweating is nauseating, isn’t it? Don’t worry!! There are various treatments available to cure excessive sweating or more commonly known as Hyperhidrosis, depending upon the severity of the condition.If the person is suffering from a placid hyperhidrosis condition, then it is better to try out the treatments listed below.
If soaps are ill-treating your skin, then it is time to replace it with an insipid soap a moisturizer, cream based soap, or baby soaps. You can simply reduce the in-take of spicy foods that provoke the hyperhydrosis possibility.
If you are suffering from axillary (underarms) hyperhydrosis use of antiperspirants is the best, which are way different from the deodorants we use. Antiperspirants basic work is to reduce the secretion of sweat whereas deodorants help covering the smell coming from the sweat.
For feet sweating, you can keep extra pair of socks to keep on replacing them. This will keep your feet less sweaty and smelly. Avoid tight shoes or boots that doesn’t allow the air to pass in. Always use permeable powder to reduce the damp feeling.
For severe cases: If you’re a severe hyperhydrosis patient, then the typical antiperspirants may not work. You need to then shift to antiperspirants with aluminum chloride in it as its main ingredient, making it a stronger antiperspirant. These are best for underarms sweating but can also be an option for soles and palms. The modus-operandi of antiperspirant is to block the openings of the sweat ducts. Not recommendable for facial hyperhydrosis, though.
Other treatment is the electric current known as Iontophoresis. This is mainly works good with the feet and palms, but can also be supportive in curing underarms sweating. This treatment needs to have the effected area waterlogged and a small electric current is then conceded through the water from a particular machine. This is neither invasive nor perilous. You need 3-4 sessions per week. Only people with metal instill and pregnant women are asked to keep away from these treatments.
Botox Injections:Botox works well with both the cosmetic and therapeutic approach. Botox can work well for axillary hyperhidrosis. It lies getting small injections underarm, it is not at all painful, but is very expensive and to continue for the results to need take at least seesion in a year. What Botox does is, it impedes the nerves from reacting i.e. Botox temporarily paralyses the nerve that controls the sweat glands.
Medication: Medications like propantheline bromide are used rarely due to the side-effects that crop up usually. One of the common side-effect is blurry vision and drying of mouth. However, this holds true only for few individuals. Because with others these medications work very swiftly, without any complains.
Surgery: ETS can be another effective tool. Here, the doctor applies a titanium fix to the sympathetic nervous system to stop the reaction of the system. This has a constructive effect as it is not destroyed and can help starting the reaction, just by removing the titanium fix
Wed, Mar 4, 2009
Excess Sweat