Posted: admin on Jun 25 | excessive sweating, skin care & beauty
The excessive sweating or other name hyperhidrosis (hidros: sweat in Greek) has long been neglected by the medical profession. The doctors, finding themselves destitute before the disease, tended to trivialize and place it on the account of nervousness, emotion …
Yet, we know that:
n Hyperhidrosis is not restricted to a particular psychological profile.
n Hyperhidrosis is common, more than 1% of the population for the hands and 10% for the feet.
n Hyperhidrosis may be caused serious social and psychological problems.
n Hyperhidrosis can become a real handicap.
– A school: The notebooks are stained by sweat with consequences for punishment and ridicule of small comrades.
– In everyday life: sweaty hands, aureoles under the arms, smell accompanying sweating armpits, and feet.
– At work: The commercial is reluctant to shake hands, the musician and slides are deteriorating instrument, the electrician is in risky situations, the engineer makes rusty parts it touches, the secretary can not make a sheet without Soak the sweat. Do not talk of a colleague who stinks feet. All these situations have consequences up to the job loss.
Refuse to shake hands, social avoidance.
Their pockets filled with handkerchiefs.
They often use dark colors Tee-shirt
They Change shoes and socks several times a day.
Hyperhidrosis can spoil the lives of people who are suffering.
Hyperhidrosis can benefit from effective treatments.
There are various treatments, and in these, a hierarchy that must be met in order to avoid going out to inconvenience important.
Treatment of hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet:
U.S., is to move a small electric current at the hands and feet. It can be practiced in hospitals in the city, among physicians who are interested in treating this disease (Angiologues and Dermatologists) and quà home with a machine specially designed for individuals to carry out maintenance sessions (Idrostar ).
botulinum toxin,
In case of failure of Iontophoresis, you could try botulinum toxin, knowing that it does not have permission marketing for this indication in France and it will be under the responsibility of the physician practice.
In case of failure of these different treatments, it may consider surgery, for the most serious cases, knowing that the side effects of this technique are irreversible. The sympathectomy is a heavy, with the disadvantages of any surgery, but it also presents significant side effects and not rare, the most important thing is compensatory hyperhidrosis, which may have greater consequences than hyperhidrosis d ‘origin.
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