What if you sweat a lot?
Increased sweating can be worn as a local,and the general character. The causes of the appearance of the disease can be very different - from enough light deviations in the work of the body to serious and dangerous diseases. Depending on the intensity of the symptoms, the nature of the triggers of hyperhidrosis factors, you can choose one or other of the techniques that allow you to weaken or even completely eliminate the problem.
Types of hyperhidrosis and its causes
Local Forms
- Idiomatic hyperhidrosis. Usually manifested by increased sweating in the area of the palms, armpits, feet. For the first time the symptomatology is manifested at the age of 15 to 30 years. This type of disease can periodically subside or even pass without external influence. However, with prolonged symptoms, treatment is necessary, otherwise the disease is transformed into a chronic form. As for the cause of the disease, some scientists see it in an increased number of regional mecrine sweat glands; others - in an overly intense emotional reaction to various stimuli (stress, fear, heat, physical activity), causing a profuse allocation of sweat.
- Hyperhidrosis against the background of food intake. With this form of the disease, increased sweating manifests itself in the forehead and upper lip area after a person has eaten. The causes of increased sweating in this case may be surgical operations on the salivary gland or its severe infectious lesions.
- Also, increased sweating may occurwith congenital pachyonihia or with vitiligo, psoriasis. Increased sweating is observed in spots, psoriatic plaques. The etymology of the disease in these cases is poorly understood.
General hyperhidrosis
In this case, excessive sweat allocation may be due to:
- disorders in the endocrine system; in particular, in diabetes mellitus, climacteric syndrome, hypoglycemia;
- neurological disorders in stroke, Parkinson's disease, syphilis and other diseases;
- infections: tuberculosis, malaria, septicemia, etc .;
- response to medication;
- tumor structures: lymphomas, Hodgkin's disease;
- psychological factors.
What if you sweat a lot? Next, consider traditional and folk remedies to combat excessive sweating.
How to deal with hyperhidrosis
Means for external use
- Gels and ointments against increased sweating. They are applied to those parts of the body that are more susceptible to hyperhidrosis. So, earlier such means as Taimurov paste, Formidron were very popular. But today there appeared much more convenient in use, improved preparations, for example, Formagel.
- Long-playing sprays, whose producerspromise to save you from sweat for a few days or even weeks. Such drugs doctors sharply criticize because of their long exposure to sweat glands, which can cause the development of very dangerous diseases.
Oral agents
- You can take sedatives. They will help if the cause of hyperhidrosis lies in the increased nervous excitability of a person.
- Depending on the etymology of the disease, the doctorcan prescribe other drugs for the treatment of the disease, which provokes profuse sweat (for example, hormonal drugs, anti-infectious agents).
ethnoscience
- Use of herbal decoctions for rubbingproblem areas of the body. Cooking them should be from the bark of oak, field horsetail, alder cones, peppermint, willow bark, St. John's wort - at the rate of 1 tablespoon of grass for 0, 5 liters of water. You can make baths of strong tea, blood-grouses (2 tablespoons for 1 cup of boiling water).
- For the face, a lotion of lavender and lemon water tincture is suitable.
- To wipe the armpits, you can use a mixture offrom equal proportions taken 4% aqueous solution of boric acid, perfume or toilet water and table vinegar. All the ingredients are mixed and the composition wipes the underarm zone. After that, they can be slightly treated with baby powder.
- The feet after washing can be treated with decoction of the bark of oak, and after a good wipe.
other methods
- Surgical methods: endoscopic thoracoscopic sympathectomy, curettage, axillary liposuction (if it is a case of a hyperhidrosis of this body zone). All these methods are low-traumatic and either eliminate the problem for a long enough period, or permanently rid the person of it. Minimally invasive effects on sweat glands can also be used with a laser.
- Galvanization (iontophoresis).
- Injection of Botox, Disport.
Other tips on how to cope with this problem, you will find in the article I strongly sweat what to do.