Hyperhidrosis better known as “excessive sweating” in common parlance affects nearly 2% of the population in United States irrespective of race and sex. Hyperhidrosis is essentially a dermatologic and neurological disorder characterized by excessive sweating of the eccrine sweat glands. Hyperhidrosis, which is sweating in excess of that required for normal thermoregulation, is a condition

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As a teenager, like most of my friends, I was often found playing sports and other games. As I played, I would obviously begin to sweat, and though I knew that sweating was natural, I began to realise that I sweated much more than other children my own age. It began with my underarms sweating excessively, and I soon noticed my face being affected the same way. I visited a doctor, asking her if the my facial sweating was connected to the sweating in my underarms and she informed me that it was in fact related. She described the condition as ‘Hyperhidrosis’, which is a disorder of one’s sweat glands or sympathetic nervous system. She ...

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People are always looking for methods to prevent body odor but the main reason why the perfect method to do so has remained elusive till date is that no one actually knows why some people sweat more than the others. The medical world is at a loss to understand this condition and there are several theories floating around. They have honored the condition with a name though, hyperhidrosis, but are still investigating what causes it. Sweating is a form of excretion from the body, just as urination is, but sweating can occur anywhere on the entire skin of the body. The skin has sweat pores (medically, sebaceous glands) that are connected to sweat ducts which ...

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