What are the types of sweating?
Excessive sweating may be common or localized. There is a disturbing and increasing sweating in whole body in generalized sweating while excessive sweating is observed in hands, soles and armpits in localized sweating.
Why Do We Sweat?
Sweating is a physiological state required to maintain the body temperature balanced. Our bodies sometimes sweat due to extreme temperatures or exhausting physical activities or sometimes due to illness, excitement, fear or stressed conditions. Both less or no sweating and also excessive treating (hyperhidrosis) is not beneficial for body health.
Which diseases cause excessive sweating?
Hyperthyroidism (Over-activity of thyroid gland)
Some diseases caused by suprarenal glands,
Obesity,
Menopause,
Some drugs used in cancer treatment may cause excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis).
However, in some cases, there is no underlying or triggering disease.
Sweating may also occur in stress and embarrassment conditions. In such cases, excessive sweating may be observed in armpits, palms and soles.
What are the problems caused by excessive sweating?
Excessive sweating in feet may disturb the environment due to unpleasant odor and may also pave the way for the formation of fungus in hands and foots. Sweating in hands may cause problems while shaking hands, writing, holding pencils in exams and driving car. Excessive sweating in armpits mostly cause unpleasant odor.
Can Sweating Be Cured?
The primary treatment for sweating in armpits and hands is botulinum toxin. Botulinum toxin is injected into skin. Anesthetic cream may be applied before the operation. Then, the injection area is marked with 1,5-2 cm intervals and botulinum toxin is injected into each point. Application lasts approximately 30 minutes and its effects begin to appear within 7-10 days. It has been determined that sweating rate is reduced by 75% within 4 weeks after the first botulinum toxin. When the patient comes for a check-up, iodine-starch test is applied to determine whether sweating continues or not and additional application is performed in required areas. Since the effects last about 6-9 months, single therapy in a year provides a great relief for the patients. Those, who have problems in their daily activities and social lives due to excessive sweating, feel psychologically relaxed due to decrease in sweating after treatment. Botulinum toxin has no significant adverse effect in treatment of armpit sweating.
One of the most frequently asked questions is “Isn’t it harmful to prevent sweating?”. No, it is not harmful. We remove 98% of toxins from our bodies by urine. Armpit and whole body sweating is only 2%.
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