Excessive sweat therapy / Excessive sweat (hyperhidrosis) therapy

What is hyperhidrosis (excessive sweat)?

Perspiration (including axillae zone, soles and palms) is a natural physiological process. Then why has excessive sweat caused the foundation of the whole industry of manufacturing and of anti-perspirants and deodorants advertising? According to statistics up to 3% of population suffer from excessive sweat and every day a huge number of people are anxious about the problem of disguising a wet shirt or a blouse, who are overcome with fear that the marks on the clothes would be noticed, who have lost the expectations on the real effect but still hear annoying adverts of the new remedies from this real disaster. For people experiencing constant stress, constrained in social aspects the possibility to solve the problem of the excessive sweat treatment cannot be overestimated.

When hyperhidrosis therapy is needed?

People experiencing excessive sweat must have impression that all the methods of excessive sweat cure have already been tried out, but without bringing the desirable result. When facing such a situation, you might benefit from the information concerning contemporary methods of hyperhidrosis treatment, it will let you reconsider the opportunity to get rid of this aesthetic defect.

Indications for hyperhidrosis are caused by exceptional social importance of excessive sweat problem, and in principle are caused by the following complaints:

- wet marks on the clothes;
- significant colour change of the clothes which results in restrictions in their choice, the clothes wear out quickly;
- sweating, bad smell.

The above-mentioned symptoms of hyperhidrosis, excessive sweat in the axillae area leads to constant emotional, psychological stress and are of extraordinary social importance for people suffering from this problem.

Methods of sweating treatment

Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweat) is a rather common aesthetic problem. Despite the considerable progress in the cosmetology, the well-known methods of sweat treatment such as deodorants, anti-perspirants, remain only the methods of short-term relief. The up-to-date techniques in aesthetic medicine are hypodermic injections of botulinum toxin type A – Dysport, Botox. The medicine blocks temporally the transmission of the nerve impulse to sweat glands, inhibits the sweating inside the treated area. Besides, the ample opportunity to combine different methods provides excellent results.

The effect of “dry” axillae, feet skin, hands after sweat therapy using botulinum toxin lasts in average for 6-8 months and noticeable on 2nd-3rd day. It is important to note that the excessive sweat is blocked only locally and does not influence the thermo- and water-exchange between the human skin and the environment. The botulinum toxin ejection is practically painless in the underarm zone, moderately painless when treating hands and feet, but application anesthesia can be implemented when necessary.

This method is very popular through all over the world, it is efficient, convenient as it brings comfort into every-day life of sweat suffers or of those who wants to exclude the usage of deodorants in spring and summer, and for preventive measures against mycotic infection and bad smell when hyperhidrosis of the feet.

Besides the injection method of excessive sweat therapy there exist as well surgical procedures. This can be a local destruction of the secretory part of the glands using the method which in general resembles the liposuction of the underarm area and on the other hand the procedures aiming the alteration of the innervation which controls the functional activity of sweat glands. The both methods cannot be compared to the ambulant therapy of the excessive sweating as they are surgical procedures and before resort to them a surgeon must be consulted with, all the risks and complications must be considered and they must be compared to the potential effect of the sweat reduction.