Hyperhidrosis means excessive perspiration to the point where it starts to affect your daily life and become a big problem. Excessive sweating can be initiated by exercise, emotion or stress - but profuse sweating can also start all by itself, spontaneously.

Excessive perspiration background and causes

Excessive underarm perspiration as well as all normal sweating is controlled by the sympathetic nerves which are part of the autonomic nervous system, the involuntary nerves (we can't control them). The rest belongs to the somatic nervous system, these are the nerves giving us sensations like heat, touch etc - or the ones controlling our muscles so we can control them with our willpower.

The autonomic nervous system is different, these are the nerves we can not control and they are grouped into the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems. Sweating is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system which is also where we need to look for methods of curing or treating hyperhydrosis.

Excessive sweating treatment

Excessive profuse sweating (hyperhydrosis) is a very embarrassing condition, both functionally and socially. Closing a deal by shaking sweaty hands is not good for a salesman and if the first impression of someone is sweaty palms, that relationship may very well not go any further.

Different treatments have evolved during later years. Herbal medicine can offer some hyperhidrosis relief and so can lotions and different orally taken hyperhydrosis medications (anticholinergic drugs) like glycopyrrolate but unfortunately none of these have longer lasting effect.

Aluminium chloride antiperspirants for hyperhidrosis treatment

One method that has been fairly successful in treating hyperhydrosis (axillary) is to use a prescription topical antiperspirant based on aluminium chloride. The Aluminium chloride will normally be in alcohol solution and with a strength of 20-25%.

Most of the available non-prescription antiperspirants are too weak to really provied enough hyperhydrosis relief but Drysol, an anti-perspirant (prescription drug with 20% aluminium chloride) is one of the few that has proven effective in many cases of hyperhydrosis. Apply at night when you go to bed, make sure the skin is totally dry. During showering in the morning it will be washed off. Avoid using a normal deodorant after this. Repeat every evening for the first few weeks and later a few times a week to keep the excessive sweating in control. If you have no success within the first 1-2 weeks, try to cover the area with a rectangular of "saran wrap" during the night and after it starts to show signs of working, keep using 1-2 times per week to keep the effect, using a normal deororant in the days in between. Drysol is not as effective against sweaty palms or feet because the skin is much thicker there

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