Monthly Archives: February 2008
Antiperspirants For Excessive Sweating
Antiperspirants should always be trialed first for excessive sweating of the underarms, hands and feet because they are the easiest and least invasive of all treatment options. Antiperspirants For Excessive Sweating. work by blocking the sweat ducts and reducing the amount of sweat that reaches the skin. available either over-the-counter or by prescription antiperspirants containing [...]
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Hyperhidrosis
Hyperhidrosis is a condition where the body’s cooling mechanism ‘sweating’ is overactive. People with hyperhidrosis sweat in cold conditions, when they are under stress and in extreme amounts: up to 5 times more than is necessary to cool the body. Sweating to this degree is uncomfortable and disabling: causing embarrassment, anxiety and stress. It can [...]
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Sweating is how your body cools itself and essential to life.
Sweat is how your body cools itself and essential to life. Some facts: You sweat mainly under your arms and on your feet and palms. There are two main types of sweat glands eccrine and apocrine. Eccrine sweat is watery and odorless Apocrine sweat glands occur in the armpit and genital area. They produce a [...]
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Excessive Armpit Perspiration
Excessive armpit perspiration is caused by a medical condition known as ‘axillary hyperhidrosis’. It causes social and work distress far in excess of the severity of the condition itself. Hyperhidrosis Does Not Only Affect The Armpit. the underlying cause of hyperhidrosis is over activity of the sympathetic nervous system the nervous system activates at inappropriate [...]
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Treatment for hyperhidrosis or excessive sweating.