Profuse Sweating
Do you suffer from excess sweating? Do you want to learn how to stop sweating too much? Do you wear lots of black? I do. And if you’re here, you or someone you care about likely does too. So, what can be done about it? Fortunately, there are remedies and cures available that don’t have to break the bank. But first, let’s explain what’s really happening.
Everyone sweats. It’s a completely natural reaction to a variety of influences, both external and internal. Hot day? Physically active? Stressed? The normal outcome in any of these instances is to sweat.
Let’s be clear. Sweating, even heavy sweating, is and can be perfectly normal. But if you have hyperhidrosis, ask yourself if it’s congenital—you’ve had it since adolescence or before and inherited it from your parents due to a genetic trait—or started sweating excessively later in life. If you answered with the second, you need to get a medical opinion since your sweating may be a symptomatic of a deeper problem. If that’s the case, please don’t rely on the internet for help.
FYI. Some of the medical causes of excessive sweating are problems with the thyroid or pituitary glands, diabetes, menopause or tumors.
Okay, so you’re sure you don’t have any reason to be concerned about an underlying medical condition. What next? You’ve tried the best antiperspirant on the market to combat your underarm sweat, and found you may as well save your money since you perspire right through it. Are there treatments to deal with excessive sweat? There are, you just need to decide what makes the most sense for you. What works for one person isn’t necessarily going to do the job on another.
You can keep reading below, or jump to the next page to see my recommendations on how to reduce sweating.
Available Treatments:
Medications
Some of the most common medications used to treat hyperhidrosis are Ditropan, Robinul and Probanthine. I’ll leave you to do further research on each of these, but I will say that none of them were specifically created to treat your problem. The fact that they reduce sweating is because dryness is a side affect of the drug. And since many people don’t suffer from side affects, that limits the efficacy of this drug treatment.
Surgery
Depending on where you sweat the most—hands, feet, armpits or groin area—there is a corresponding surgical treatment.
Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy (ETS) is the most common surgical procedure and touted as being safe. However, it can have some pretty scary side effects, and there is a chance of reversal. Basically, the nerves that were cut or burned out can regenerate in about 6 months and your sweating starts again.
Fortunately, there are less invasive means to deal with the problem. Check out the next page where I’ll offer some tips on sweat reduction, home remedies, and also point you in the direction of some very helpful products.