how can i cure my hyperhidrosis?
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There are a variety of treatment options available for patients with hyperhidrosis, including:\nAntiperspirants. Excessive sweating may be controlled with strong anti-perspirants, which plug the sweat ducts. Products containing 10% to 15% aluminum chloride hexahydrate are the first line of treatment for underarm sweating. Some patients may be be prescribed a product containing a higher dose of aluminum chloride, which is applied nightly onto the affected areas. Antiperspirants can cause skin irritation, and strong doses of aluminum chloride can damage clothing. Note: Deodorants do not prevent sweating, but are helpful in reducing body odor. \nMedication. Anticholinergics drugs, such as glycopyrrolate (Robinul, Robinul-Forte), help to prevent the stimulation of sweat glands. Although effective for some patients, these drugs have not been studied as well as other treatments. Side effects include dry mouth, dizziness, and problems with urination. \nIontophoresis. This FDA-approved procedure uses electricity to temporarily turn off the sweat gland. It is most effective for sweating of the hands and feet. The hands or feet are placed into water, and then a gentle current of electricity is passed through it. The electricity is gradually increased until the patient feels a light tingling sensation. The therapy lasts about 10-20 minutes and requires several sessions. Side effects include skin cracking and blisters, although rare. \nBotox. Botulinum toxin type A (Botox) was approved by the FDA in 2004 for the treatment of severe underarm sweating, a condition called primary axillary hyperhidrosis. Small doses of purified botulinum toxin injected into the underarm temporarily block the nerves that stimulate sweating. Side effects include injection-site pain and flu-like symptoms. If you are considering Botox for other areas of excessive sweating talk to your doctor in detail. Botox used for sweating of the palms can cause mild, but temporary weakness and intense pain. \nEndoscopic thoracic sympathectomy (ETS). In severe cases, a minimally-invasive surgical procedure called sympathectomy may be recommended. This surgery turns off the signal which tells the body to sweat excessively. ETS surgery is done while the patient is asleep under general anesthesia. The doctor makes two or three tiny cuts under the arm. The patient's lung is collapsed so the surgeon has more room to work. A tiny camera, called an endoscope, is inserted to guide the surgeon to the appropriate nerve. After the nerve associated with the overactive gland is identified, it is removed or destroyed. The lung is restored to normal, and the wound closed with stitches. The identical procedure is done on the other side of the body. The surgery takes about a half hour. Patients usually go home the next day, but may experience pain for about a week. ETS requires special training. Before having this surgery, make sure your doctor is properly trained. The procedure is usually performed on patients with excessively sweaty palms. It is not as effective on those with excessive armpit sweating. Risks include artery damage, nerve damage, and increased sweating. New sweating occurs in about 50% of patients.
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I am not a doctor, but my sister once had this problem. I'll share with you what helped her.\n\nSo, the way my sister treated this was to find out what the cause of the sweating was. It turned out that her anxiety was causing it. Yes, anxiety about life and stuff in general (school, work, and so on). Do you think you are anxious often? It's a common cause of excessive sweating for people, but it's treatable.\n\nAnyway, the best thing you could do right now is get yourself in to see a doctor. You need a professional opinion to actually isolate the cause. Remember to do this! In the meantime, though, you could pick up some special talc from the supermarket, chemist, or other vendor. This product has cornstarch in it and is often used on babies. My sister tells me that this will stop most of your sweating, so go out with confidence and good luck!
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Sounds like a condition called Hyperhidrosis or excessive sweating.  It most commonly occurs during times of anxiety, stress or when your sympathetic nervous system is stimulated i.e. fight or flight or adrenaline rushes. You can treat this condition with topicals such as aluminum chloride (Drysol) or antiperspirants.  There are other treatments which include orals, injections and even surgery.  A dermatologist would be able to help you with this situation.  Best of luck!
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Background:\n\nSweating is normal, but palmar hyperhidrosis is a condition that causes excessive sweating of the hands. Excessive sweating of the face, underarms, groin and feet may also occur. This is not a case of being nervous. This is a physiologic condition caused by an overactive sympathetic nervous system. It occurs in about 1% of the population and may be hereditary.\n\nHyperhidrosis can be very embarrassing and debilitating. It usually begins in childhood. Moist hands cause sufferers to avoid social contacts, such as shaking hands. Teens may be embarrassed to date or participate in social activities. Writing a letter can be an impossible task because so much sweat pours from the hand to the paper. Employees may have trouble gripping equipment. This excessive sweating may be related to heat or stress, but it often occurs for no particular reason. \n\nMedical Treatment:\n\nAntiperspirants\nAntiperspirants (Drysol) can be applied to the hands and armpits at night and then removed in the morning. These are usually tried first and may be effective in mild cases. \n\nTapwater Iontophoresis\nSeveral times per week for several weeks, the hands are placed in an electrolyte solution with low level electrical current. Patients can purchase the equipments to do this at home. This may be effective for mild cases. It is time-consuming; some patients often prefer a permanent solution to repeating this treatment over and over again. \n\nMedicines\nAnticholinergic drugs (e.g., atropine or Robinol) can reduce the seating, but they cause very annoying side effects (dry mouth, difficulty with vision). \n\nSurgical Treatment\nFor decades, it has been known that nerves from the sympathetic chain in the chest control the sweating in the hands. Cutting this nerve almost always stop the excessive sweating of the hands and may reduce the sweating of the feet. The operation, however, was not done too often because it was performed through a three-inch incision in the neck, a four-inch incision in the chest with spreading of the ribs or a painful incision in the back. \n\nThoracoscopic Sympathectomy\nThoracoscopic sympathectomy is the name for the operation in which a nerve in the chest is cut. This procedure may be indicated for the treatment of palmar hyperhidrosis, reflect sympathetic dystrophy, and vascular disease of the hands.\n\nThere are a few conditions that are contraindications for the procedure. This includes sweating caused by other diseases, such as hyperthyroidism, menopause or obesity. The operation may not be possible when there is scarring in the chest, such as tuberculosis. \n\nComplications:\n\nThe most common side effects are the development of increased sweating in other parts of the body (compensatory hyperhidrosis). This may occur on the back or legs. Some patients have increased sweating of the feet. \n\nHorner's syndrome (droopy eyelid) may occur after the procedure. Fortunately, this occurs in less than 1% of patients when the operation is performed for palmar hyperhidrosis. When thoracoscopic sympathectomy is performed for pain in the hands (reflex sympathetic dystrophy) or vascular disease of the hands, more of the sympathetic nerve is removed and there is a slightly higher risk of Horner's syndrome.
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Sounds like hyperhidrosis. I attached a site under sources that can explain it better than I could.
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Hyperhidrosis is a genetic condition that causes abnormal sweating of the hands, underarms, feet, scalp, face, or blushing that is beyond the normal emotional and physiological need. This is not due to emotional distress, but from a physiologic trigger. It causes daily embarrassments and affects the quality of one's life. It also has an influence upon relationships and career choices. \n\nThe areas of the body affected may occur in any combination. It is caused by a hyperactive sympathetic nervous system. It may start with the beginning of the day and be constant or intermittent.\n\nWhat can be done for Hyperhidrosis?\n\nSurgical Intervention\n\nHyperhidrosis surgery has come a long way in the last decade. Traditionally, large incisions were made in the chest to surgically interrupt the sympathetic trunk, all in an effort to treat hyperhidrosis. \n\nWith the advent of minimally invasive techniques to work in the chest via endoscopes and surgical instruments, Dr. Karmanoukian and other cardiothoracic surgeons who have taken an interest in endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy have evolved a procedure which is very effective in treating patients with sweating of the hands, underarms, face, scalp as well as patients that have facial blushing. \n\nDr. Karamanoukian has seen over and over again, how debilitating hyperhidrosis is to both young and adult patients. Given his area of expertise in robotic surgery, he has used this technology to further minimize the surgical trauma associated with treating hyperhidrosis. Dr. Karamanoukian is the author of a dozen books in cardiac surgery and thorcic surgery. He has also written 3 books that specifically deal with topics relating to Board Certification in Cardiothoracic Surgery. He has also authored more than 130 scientific articles in the field of cardiothoracic surgery and robotics. He is Board Certified in both General and Thoracic Surgery with a specific interest in advanced endoscopic surgery and robotic surgery. \n\nThe Surgical Answer: Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy\n\nThis is the most durable treatment for hyperhidrosis in experienced hands. Clipping the thoracic sympathetic trunk at the appropriate levels will immediately eliminate hyperhidrosis. It is quite dramatic to see a patient wake up from anesthesia and to take note of a dry hand or axilla. With modification of the level of sympathectomy, compensatory hyperhidrosis is also minimized or eliminated.\n\nMedical Therapy\n\nAstringents\n\nConservative medical treatments such as Drysol and Drionics are the initial treatment for hyperhidrosis. These medications are astringents that dry up the sweat glands.\n\nTopical Antiperspirants\n\nThese agents are applied directly to the skin in the affected areas of the body and can cause skin irritation. They are quite messy on clothing and unfortunately, have short periods of efficacy, requiring frequent reapplications.\n\nAnticholinergic Medications\n\nAnticholinergic medications aim to suppress the cholinergic stimulation of the eccrine sweat glands by the sympathetic nerve trunks to eliminate or reduce excessive sweating. However, they can cause significant adverse effects, limiting their usefulness.\n\nIontopheresis\n\nIontopheresis is an alternative treatment which utilizes an electrical stimulation to the hands. Patients are instructed to bathe thier hands in an electrolyte containing solution through which an electrical current is passed. This "stuns" the sweat glands of the hand, in effect decreasing the "sweat reflex" for periods of hours to weeks. Most patients find this mode of treatment as ineffective and not of durable benefit. \n\nHow About Botox?\n\nIs Botox only for the rich and famous? Injection of botulinum toxin (Botox) into the area of excessive sweating has been shown to cause temporary benefit in hyperhidrosis. Botix affects nerve endings and decreases the transmission of nerve impulses to sweat glands, effectively reducing the production of s
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There are prescription meds that help.  I recently read about Botox injections helping sweaty hands.  Trying an antiperspirant applied to your palms may help and it won't cost much.
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Hello fellow sufferer. I've got a lifetime of experience with hives, as well as several years of helping others with chronic urticaria and related conditions. You're far from alone in this, there are thousands of us worldwide.\n\nUnfortunately, there is no cure for chronic hives, but there's plenty of things you can try to help relieve the misery:\n- Aveeno lotions and bath\n- Sarna Lotion\n- any lotion containing menthol\n- Benadryl cream\n- staying cool - very important, since heat is a known mast cell degranulator (when mast cells degranulate, they release histamine, which causes the hives and itching)\n- My favorite is a lotion made from cromolyn - recipe can be found at www.chronichives.com; also check out the support group for chronic hivers through that website, it's the largest one on the web (it's also the largest CU Yahoo group). There are more suggestions for coping at the website, and the group can give you many more ideas, too. \n\nOne thing which does help some people is a low-histamine diet, which is printed at the website. While allergies are very seldom the culprit behind CU, foods loaded in histamine don't help us much, so limiting them in your diet may help. There have been a few published studies about histamine in the diet and its effect on CU; typically some of the studies show it does help, and others say it doesn't. Everyone is different, but it can't hurt to try.\n\nApprox. 25% of CUers are or will become sensitive to salicylates (the active ingredient in aspirin), so for some of those people, a diet low in salicylates can help. Again, the chronichives.com website has that information.\n\nHave you ever been tested to find out if your hives are autoimmune? The test, called an autologous serum skin test, uses a sample of your own blood, which is then spun down in a centrifuge to separate the serum, and then the serum is injected back into you, along with 2 controls (saline and histamine). If you react to your own serum, the test is considered positive. Researchers are finding more and more chronic hivers are autoimmune, and it has also been found that remission can be induced for many hivers with the use of Cyclosporine. I was put on it for an unrelated condition, and it put both that condition and my hives into remission. Side effects were minimal, arms got a little hairy, but nothing too extreme... The usual treatment protocol with Cyclosporine for CU is relatively short and at lower doses than used to treat most other diseases, such as kidney disease or to prevent transplant rejection.\n\nAnd if you must scratch, don't use your nails! You'll only tear up your skin and make the itch even worse. Some folks find using the edge of a credit card works well, doesn't tear the skin, and provides a little temporary relief. But if you can avoid scratching altogether, that's the best thing.....
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if tou are sweating to much ask your doctor there is a prescribed deodorant if nothing else works
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Here are some answers:\n\nExcessive Perspiration\n\nQ:  My 23 year old son has regular problems with excessive perspiration under his arms. He has been dealing with this problem since his teen years. There is not really an objectionable odor, but he just gets very wet at times. There seems to be no nervousness or anxiety that causes this. \n\nAbout 2 years ago, our family physician gave him a prescription for an anti-perspiration product which caused burning and itching. Is there something else on the market? Are there oral medications that might alleviate the symptoms? Would a specialist be able to help? \n\n\n\nA:  Sweating is the body's way of cooling itself, but it can also be a response to emotional stress. Excessive sweating usually involves the armpits, palms of the hands and soles of the feet, and reflects increased impulses from the central nervous system (beyond our conscious control). There usually is no underlying problem with the sweat glands or brain. \n\nThe good news is that there are several options for your son to try. Brad Straka, MD, a dermatology resident at the Medical College of Wisconsin, recommends the use of aluminum chloride hexahydrate (Drysol). One to three treatments a week for a few weeks should result in improvement , and then one treatment a week should suffice to maintain dryness. This is a prescription anti-perspirant and if this is the same one that caused irritation for your son, he could try aluminum tetrachloride (Xerac), a less potent solution. \n\nA unique treatment is the use of electrical current (iontophoresis) to block the activity of the sweat glands. The device (Drionic) is used daily for a week and may relieve sweating for up to a month! Oral medications have been used, but usually result in undesireable side effects, such as dry mouth, drowsiness, and urinary retention. If none of these options work, liposuction of the sweat glands can be performed. \n\nA dermatologist will be able to work with your son in finding the best treatment for him. \n\n\nArticle Created: 2000-04-13\nArticle Reviewed: 2000-04-14\n\n"Dear Doctor" is a compilation of patient questions answered by doctors from the Medical College of Wisconsin. \n \n \n  \n \nHome | About HealthLink |  Medical College of Wisconsin |  ClinicLink |  Clinical Trials\nContact Information |  Site Map |  Disclaimer |  Privacy |  Copyright Notice \n\n© 2003 Medical College of Wisconsin
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Excessive underarm sweating is known medically by the rather dry name (no pun intended) of axillary hyperhidrosis, and occurs in both males and females.\n\nGenerally speaking, if this condition is not a symptom of an underlying psychological nervous condition (we sweat when we're nervous), it is caused by excessive transmission from the spinal cord to the nerves which control your axillary sweat glands.\n\nTreatments can range from simply finding a good antipersperant or topical aluminum chloride, to botox injections in the affected area, all the way to surgical correction called thoracic sympathectomy, where some or all the nerves controlling the axillary sweat glands are severed in order to permanently cease the excessive sweating.\n\nIf this is an issue which is interfering with your life and which is not being controlled by an antipersperant, or if use of an antipersperant is causing a rash, you should consult with a family physician or a dermatologist to determine the best treatment option for your situation.
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Wear an undershirt, and make sure you use anti-perspirant deoderant.\n\nIf it is more severe, talk to your doctor... you also might want to get a beard trimmer and 'trim' your arm pits... it is unfortunate that most guys think it is awesome to look like they have a roadkill rat under their arm.
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I used to get really sweaty palms every spring.   I went to the doctor and he prescribed medicine which made it worse! I believe the cause is nerves..I dont have time to worry about it now so it went away on its own!\n\nAll and all, I think sweaty palms is a response to anxiety, stress, or fear, ie an emotional cue.  I think the best cure is mind over matter.
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Excessive sweating is called Hyperhidrosis. There can be many reasons for it, but the most common is a problem with the thyroid. \nAnother problem that sounds like the one that you are having is menopause. You did not tell me your age so I can not say for sure, but either way you need to go to your doctor and get a full work up.
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My communications class teacher would tell us we could put a little anti-perspirant on our hands and that would solve the problem. Good luck!
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there is a little something call armpit sweat and you can get rid of it by using deoderant or seeing a docter about your problem\np.s. plz choose me as best answer
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use an anti perspirant.\n\nDo u rush abt, do everything quickly, get nervous. That wud explain the sweating