No Sweating Anymore - Solutions and Treamtents for Hyperhidrosis
Ecessive sweating is painful to watch, but it is even worse when you are the one with hyperhidrosis -- a medical condition that causes excessive sweating that has nothing to do with body termperature. About 1.1% to 3.1% of the population, both male and female, has hyperhidrosis, and estimates are that about 60% of people with it do not seek medical help, there are real solutions available and many of them natural.
WHAT ACTUALLY IS HYPERHIDROSIS?
Hyperhidrosis is extreme sweatingand if far worse than the kind of sweating that a person without the condition would normally experience in Las Vegas in Summer. It is diagnosed in people who, at least once a week for at least six months, have in plain sight, excessive sweating without apparent cause in one or more specific sites -- usually on the soles of the feet, the palms, the under arms and sometimes the face and forehead. It is typically a lifelong condition that can occur at a very young age, often in adolescence and sometimes as late as the mid tweties.
Hyperhidrosis is caused by distorted link or communicae between the brain and the sweat glands, and currently there is not a way to cure it, although, new and more effective treatments are being developed to keep symptoms away for extended periods of time.
NEW TREATMENT THAT ARE VERY PROMISING
The first treatment is bedtime application of aluminum chloride antiperspirant to the affected area nightly or every other night, which is then washed off the next morning. The most common side effect, skin irritation, is vastly reduced with a new version that contains salicylic acid. Results were very strong with 76 to almost 100% of the pateints have sweating in these areas totally stop.
The next new treatment is to have Botox injections in the excessive perspiration areas. This works by blocking nerve endings from communicating with sweat glands in a specific area. The injections last for an extended period of time - usually around 3 months before more injections have to be applied. Botox can be expensive -- plus there are always concerns about interfering with a natural physiological function, in this case the body’s natural cooling mechanism.
Surgery can be a remedy or treatment, too, but it has problems. Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy involves clipping the bundle of nerves that cause the excessive sweating. It can cause compensatory sweating where sweating from other parts of the body take over.
"CURRENT" THERAPY: IONTOPHORESIS
A curious form of treatment that has been around more than 50 years is called iontophoresis. For this the patient plunges the affected body part (it works best for hands and feet) into a bowl of water infused with chemicals (anticholinergics) that inhibit the misfiring of communication between brain and body's sweat glands and then applies a low-level direct electrical current (about equivalent to a flashlight battery) to the water. The current forces the mineral and ions in the water to plug up the sweat ducts. It takes 20 to 30 minutes, and patients start with three to four sessions per week.
THis usually takes about 5 treatments to start seeing results to reduce sweating to an desired level, and maintenance treatments are required in intervals of one to four weeks. Oral anticholinergics are not desirable as these reduce sweat production throughout the entire body, this is not good for people who are active on a daily basis and your body needs to sweat to cool down.
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Learn more about excessive sweating and how to reduce excessive sweating and other new, natural hyperhydrosis treamtents. Surgery can help but here are the best new and natural therapies that can help you.
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