Excessive Sweating Treatment

We read an interesting and well researched article on sweating in the New York Times and would just like to share some of the articles more interesting sweating points.

Sweat is our interior coolant, part of a uniquely human biologic machine. The machine drips and occasionally stalls: long waits on torpid platforms can inspire glum reflections on how it will hold up as the planet heats up. But experts counsel optimism: the system is sturdy, adjustable and even reproducible by engineers working to make our future sweaty selves more comfortable.

Indeed, for those of us who have hyperhidrosis, this interior coolant seems to come from a giant, unlimited tempermental sweat reservoir inside. Excessive sweating sufferers tolerance for heat isn’t the issue, as hyperhidrosis causes the body to sweat in all circumstances accross all types of people. Overheating is only one cause among many for excessive sweating…

But we have little tolerance for even brief overheating: the brain malfunctions with six or seven degrees of fever, and an internal temperature of 110, barely a dozen degrees above normal, is often cited as the upper limit compatible with life. So a good internal air-conditioner is essential, both to dissipate the heat generated by the body’s metabolism and to relieve the heat absorbed from miserable summer weather.

The trigger for hyperhidrosis sufferers is broken and the safety lock, is unfortunately turned off. So the excessive sweating is unpredictable, however, often times it occurs during stress. The New York Times article goes further into the history of sweating and is a rather interesting read.

“It is plain old unglamorous sweat that has made humans what they are today,” writes the evolutionary anthropologist Nina G. Jablonski in her recent book “Skin.” “Without plentiful sweat glands keeping us cool with copious sweat, we would still be clad in the thick hair of our ancestors, living largely apelike lives.”

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Hyperhidrosis is a social disease in many ways. One less talked about problem with excessive sweating, a symptom of hyperhidrosis, is the acne that may be a result of the constant and profuse sweating.

Excessive sweating is simply the overactive excretion of fluids using the pores in your body. You’re body needs to both cool itself and cleanse itself with sweating in general. People who sweat excessively often develop acne due to this constant sweating, which in turn leads to clogged pores and also bacteria on the skin, which then in turn leads to hyperhidrosis acne.

The clogging of pores by excessive sweating leads to the deposits of fatty oils and the body’s other waste products laying on the surface of the skin. This process of using sweat to get rid of waste through the skin’s pores, leads to the clogging of these same pores when sweating is constant. This constant sweating presents more fatty oil on the skin’s surface which then leads to even more growth of bacteria, in turn causing the skin deformity known as acne (blackheads, zits, etc.). This is how hyperhidrosis causes acne and other related skin diseases. Of course, there are many ways to take care of hyperhidrosis acne and these other related skin conditions, such as Proactiv and over the counter topical treatments, but many of these treatments may dry out the skin and cause irritation. It is then very important to decide on the level of treatment you may need specifically in your excessive sweating and hyperhidrosis acne situation. In the following paragraphs, we want to focus on the cause of this particular acne, the excessive sweating and the appropriate treatments for hyperhidrosis acne itself.

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