Excessive Sweating Treatment
Excessive sweating in certain areas of body is known as hyperhidrosis. One may sweat so much that it can drip off from hands or soak through the clothes. Heavy sweating in hands/palms, under arms, soles can be disturbing to the one who has this concern and socially embarrassing as well. Beside causing social distress, Skin of people who have excessive sweating are more prone to infections.
Sweaty palms under arms/armpits often create social anxiety in people which affects their quality of life. Treatment of excessive seating starts with diagnosis by a skin specialist (dermatologist), who will diagnose the issue by asking your medical history. Skin doctor can ask for increase thyroid levels or low blood sugar lever, which can be the cause of hyperhidrosis.
Generally the treatment is started with prescription of anti-perspirants for few days. If this does not help other treatment options or therapies are considered.
Symptoms
Symptom of hyperhidrosis are heavy sweating in certain areas of body like hands, palms, armpits, feet soles. Sweating goes beyond the level of exercise, heat or vigrous workouts. Sweating usually happens on both sides.
When should you consider seeing a doctor?
One should seek immediate medical attention by a dermatologist when he/she see the following symptoms:
- Excessive sweating has disrupted your daily routine
- It is causing social and emotional distress
- When one starts sweating suddenly more than usual
- When your experience extreme sweating in night with no reason.
Treatments for Excessive Sweaty palms, armpits, hands
Treatment of hyperhidrosis starts by treating the root cause or condition causing the excessive sweating in particular area. In case the cause is known, than skin specialist focus on controlling the heavy sweating. Various treatment options which a dermatologist may suggest based on the diagnosis are:
Medication: You may be prescribed with some anti-perspirants to control the sweating. Apply it on dry skin before going to bed and than wash off in the morning. Ones the symptoms are reduced after usage of anti-perspirant after few day, one may scale back to usage to twice or thrice in a week as a maintenance of the results.
Sweat Gland relaxing injections: Treatment with such injections is one of the most effective way of getting rid of excessive sweating in various areas of the body. They work by blocking the nerves that triggers the sweat glands leading to reduction in activity of sweat gland. This safe and long term treatment for those who suffer from moderate- sever hyperhidrosis. Procedure takes 30-40 minutewherein a numbing cream is applied to the affected area and ones the area in numb then injections are done. This may a little uncomfortable to the patients but generally the precautions are taken before and during the procedure to make the treatment as comfortable as possible like usage of ice and numbing creams. Patient can resume their working immediately after the procedure as no downtime is there.
Lifestyle and home remdies
Reduce Sweat Trigger: You should avoid spice food, cigarette and alcohol may worsen the issue.
Like mentioned earlier the first step is to control the sweating and body odor so that infections can be avoided. Following options can be opted:
Use anti-perspirants: Anti-perspirant containing 6%-20% aluminum chloride can temporarily block the pores. This reduces the amount sweat on skin.
Choose socks and shoes made of natural materials: Shoes made with natural materials like leather, allow your feet to breath, which helps prevents sweaty feet. Wear moisture absorbing sock while doing exercise.
Keep your feet/hands dry: Change your socks twice a day in case of excessive sweating in feet. Use handkerchief in case of hand hyperhidrosis.
At Skinesis Clinique, we offer hyperhidrosis treatments under the guidance of qualified and experienced dermatologist. Skin doctor at Skinesis Clinique, Vasant Vihar, are experts in treating the concern of hyperhidrosis and results offered are long lasting and effective.
