Primary hyperhidrosis is the medical condition of excessive sweating while secondary hyperhidrosis is excessive sweating that is caused by a different medical condition or
medication (external forces that cause the excessive sweating).

Two Types of Hyperhidrosis, Two Different Sets of Symptoms

Generally, someone suffering from primary hyperhidrosis will experience very localized sweating, such as heavy armpit sweat, sweaty palms, sweaty feet, or sweating on other specific, sometimes seemingly random, parts of the body. Everybody knows that everybody sweats and that it is the body’s way of cooling down, but sufferers of primary hyperhidrosis sweat even in the absence of heat or physical activity. If you experience constant sweating in the face, thighs, armpits, palms, or feet, you may be suffering from primary hyperhidrosis.

People suffering from secondary hyperhidrosis usually experience a less localized, whole-body type of sweating that may occur only at night – a symptom less common with primary hyperhidrosis. The following conditions may contribute to secondary hyperhidrosis:

hyperthyroidism
infection
low blood sugar
diabetes
gout
drugs and medication
alcoholism
obesity
pregnancy
menopause
heart failure
diabetes
Parkinson’s disease
rheumatoid arthritis
chronic arsenic intoxification
withdrawl from a chemical substance

There are myriad conditions and medications that can cause secondary hyperhidrosis, so it is important to discuss your health history with a doctor if you are suffering from secondary hyperhidrosis.

Different Treatments for Primary and Secondary Hyperhidrosis

Sufferers of primary hyperhidrosis may have lived with it a long time, or excessive sweating may start suddenly, with no clear catalyst. People with primary hyperhidrosis generally find no relief for their heavy sweating from over the counter or popular antiperspirants. They have to find antiperspirants that are made for excessive sweating or primary hyperhidrosis. Furthermore, the type of sweating a person suffering from hyperhidrosis experiences is not just a small nuisance, but an intolerable amount of sweat! However, specialty and prescription antiperspirants can be effective and many people with hyperhidrosis find varying levels of relief with these products.

The symptoms of secondary hyperhidrosis can be treated similarly in the short term, but further investigation with a doctor is needed to determine how to correct the underlying problem.

There IS hope for people suffering from hyperhidrosis, both secondary and primary and one needs to gather as much information from trusted sources as possible to attack the sweating problem.

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Excessive underarm sweating or axillary hyperhidrosis, is a clothes ruiner and social interaction stealer. One cannot be graceful and charming as one should be while your pits are crying a river of sweat. Worrying about your sweaty underarms can then of course, lead to even more sweating. You may even need think in advance and bring extra, large or baggy dark clothes for these sort of situations. Excessive sweating is life alteration at its worst.

Furthermore, excessive sweating can even make one change dress often to take care in hiding the sweating problems. Odd and adaptive behavior such as going home on lunch breaks to take a quick shower can really be stressful on one’s professional life. While often times, sufferers of hyperhidrosis report a declining sense of confidence and even sometimes a lack of energy at home and at work. Stopping excessive sweating or embarassing situations can weigh heavy on one’s mind, not just one’s body.

Palmar hyperhidrosis or excessive sweating of the hands can be a killer in many areas, if not all, in a person’s life. The amount of sweating may vary from person to person and the cause of this sweating phenomenon has yet to be discovered and we think if there is a discovery that the cause of excessive sweating may vary from person to person again…

Hyperhidrosis is a foggy, sweaty phenomenon that often is as much a social ill as one of the body and nerves.

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We found this article on Ezine about the true causes of hyperhidrosis or excessive sweating. It’s laughable because such a claim at this stage in the history of hyperhidrosis, is impossible to make…

Excessive sweating is a huge problem experienced by a lot of people around the world. You should know you are not alone. Many confuse causes for normal sweating with the causes for excessive sweating.

The main reason we sweat is to cool our body down to the normal body temperature of about 98 degrees Fahrenheit of 37 degrees Celsius. When we are in exercising or running to catch the bus it is natural to sweat a little. The water from the sweat get cooled down by the wind and out body stays about the normal temperature.

Okay, so the above is just article filler and really, we think everyone on the planet knows we mainly sweat to cool our bodies down.

Normal sweating might be a little problem in some situations, but it is nothing compared to excessive sweating. To a certain degree the causes for excessive sweating is similar to natural or normal causes for sweating. Still a person who struggle with excessive sweating will sweat much more in situations when others only sweat a little. Excessive sweaters will also sweat for almost no reason at all.

Causes of Excessive Sweating Despite what you might believe the real cause for excessive sweating is that excessive sweaters try too hard. It is the products you use to stop sweating that causes excessive sweating.

Okay, here is where our beef with this excessive sweating article starts. There has been no conclusive evidence that any off the shelf products cause more sweating for the majority of users. We have heard of operations for hyperhidrosis or surgeries for excessive sweating having the side effects of increased perspiration in other areas of the body, even sometimes leading to more sweating overall. However, we’ve never heard of antiperspirants having the opposite effect of sweating even more profusely for the most of the users of the antiperspirant. This might be the case for a few people, a small percentage of the time, but for the majority of people suffering from excessive sweating, this is simply not the case.

This might be hard to believe, but it is the bacteria in the shampoos, soaps and deodorants that cause your sweat palms to sweat for no reason at all. The heat under your armpits is the perfect habitant for the bacteria and then the circle starts. When the bacteria starts to live in your armpits you start to shower more, and use more soap and more deodorant. Then more bacteria starts living there and you sweat even more.

Tiny evil germs are using your sweat to breed and take over the sweating world! Actually, that’s an idea for my next movie script about excessive sweating and alien bacteria from Mars, it’s gonna make billions. Seriously, bacteria causing your palms to sweat? It might cause your palms to smell, but what’s causing your sweating is coming from inside your sweaty body and how your body reacts to situations that your brain is experiencing and feeling. Hyperhidrosis is a complicated sweating problem because it involves your nervous system.

Think about this. Have you ever experienced coming home from a 3 day hiking in the mountains or in the forest? You might smell bad but after a couple of days you really do not sweat much any more. You smell bad because you are dirty. But your sweating are slowed down because the bacteria from the soap are not added to your armpits.

Not only can this person not write well, but he or she doesn’t include some key features of the above mention situation. First of all, after a hiking trip, you are out in the elements and experiencing nature, and also exercising regularly while breathing in clean air. All of whichh is good for any health condition, even excessive sweating. There have been many documented cases where a regimen of regular exercise and eating in small portions throughout the day decreases overall hyperhidrosis. Furthermore, while we recommend to anyone to use organic soaps and shampoos, there really is no subsitute for a treatment made for excessive sweating or extreme hyperhidrosis.

I am not Telling You Not to Shower It would be weird not to shower. It would also be weird and smelly not to use any soaps or deodorants to clean you body. If you want to cure the causes for excessive sweating you need to start a cleansing process on you body. You need to get rid of all the old bacteria and start to use products that will keep the bacteria away and make you sweat free. That is the real way to get rid of the causes for excessive sweating.

The cleansing process is not very difficult to follow. You do not need to change what you eat or run 10 miles (or even a half) a day. All you need to do is to change the way you clean you body every day. Get those sweat making bacteria away!

Yeah, sweating making tiny boogey monsters… Bacteria in soap and shampoo, that’s why you sweat so much, yeesh. There are no absolutely certain, universal causes for excessive sweating or hyperhidrosis. There have been only theories and case studies on hyperhidrosis. We recommend trying out a lot of different products while reducing the stress in your life. And again, try exercising regulary and eating small portions, if this doesn’t stop your excessive sweating, at least you’ll be so sexy that people will think you’re glowing instead of sweating excessively.

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