Clinical Types of Hyperhidrosis
In our previous post we’ve mentioned various types of excessive sweating. We also wrote about scenarios and consequences of hyperhidrosis, the clinical title for excessive sweating, in certain areas of one’s life.
Below is a solid list of types of hyperhidrosis associated with different areas of the body and a brief social scenario dealing with this particular form of excessive sweating:
Palmar Hyperhidrosis: Excessive sweating of the hands - Leads to awkward encounters as in almost every single western society shaking hands is a form of greeting.
Axillary Hyperhidrosis: Excessive sweating of the armpits - Forces people to either change clothes often to avoid sweat stains, wear baggy, oversized clothes and/or wear darker colors hide the excessive sweating.
Plantar Hyperhidrosis: Excessive sweating of the feet - Can result in an increase in foot odor, blisters, corns and calluses on the overly sweating feet.
Facial Hyperhidrosis: Excessive sweating of the face (i.e. not emotional or thermal related blushing, however both conditions may be linked or appear in the same person) - Could lead to socially awkward encounters when the other person may think there is an emotional problem with the person excessively sweating.
General Hyperhidrosis: Overall excessive sweating -
This condition is quite common where the person may have one form of excessive sweating one day and then the hyperhidrosis moves on to another part of the body the next day.
Everyone on the planet sweats, it’s the natural way for the body to cool. Overheating and stress causes the sweat glands to go to work, causing perspiration, sometimes excessive perspiration. The sweat eventually evaporates off of the skin and creates a general cooling of the surface area of the skin. This cooling of the skin in turn leads to the whole body cooling and/or the feeling one’s body being cooler.
For many people with hyperhidrosis or profuse sweating, perspiration becomes more than a natural function of the human body. This natural function is disrupted or altered and something is not quite right in the body and the body over compensates or reacts with excessive sweat. Because we live in a social world, excessive sweating becomes social disease because of all the sweating circumstances that happen day to day.
So when will the cause or causes of hyperhydrosis come out of the research closet? Is there an excessive sweating cure? These are the questions this sweating blog is trying to answer…
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