We all sweat. We know that sweating is normal and beneficial, as it means removing toxins from the body. Or excessive sweating? Is excessive sweating harmful? Is there a solution to excessive sweat?
We all sweat. We know that sweating is normal and beneficial, as it means removing toxins from the body. Or excessive sweating? Is excessive sweating harmful? Is there a solution to excessive sweat?
What is Sweating? Why Do We Sweat?
Sweating; It is what we call hyperhidrosis in medical terms and it has numerous causes. Excess is subject to complaint. When a person wakes up at night, they may find their bed or pillow soaking wet. This type of sweating can be seen especially in diabetes, hormonal disorders and other systemic disorders. Men are more uncomfortable in cases of menopause and andropause. Night sweats may be a precursor to sleep apnea. Night sweats are common in alcoholics, those who take strong pain medications, and those with fever. Obesity, smoking and stressful environment are also causes of sweating.
How Does Sweating Happen Medically?
We have about 5 million sweat glands that regulate our body’s temperature. However, the sweating center is in the area of our brain that we call the hypothalamus. These sweat glands continue to operate under the control of our nervous system. Abnormalities or overwork in the nervous system lead to conditions that result in sweating. Even an emotional trigger can cause sweating on the face, hands, and feet. Emotional stimuli decrease during sleep, but thermal sweating occurs at this time. Sweating can also be an expression of pain in the body. If your body is in pain, you sweat.
Can We Call Excessive Sweating a Social Problem?
Underarm, face, hand and foot sweating outside of night hours can put us in a difficult situation in social life. It creates a problem for the person whose hands sweat a lot and who will shake hands. Facial sweating, which occurs especially during stress, also bothers us, and may be misunderstood by our interlocutors. Underarm and foot sweating, on the other hand, disturbs us and those around us because of the accompanying odor. In summary, yes, it can be called a “social problem”.
How to Treat Problem?
Anticholinergic drugs are beneficial in general body sweating. But priority ozone therapy should be recommended. It is also important for the patient to stay away from alcohol and cigarettes and to get rid of excess weight. The most common hand, foot and armpit sweats. In armpit sweating, we prevent sweating by destroying the sweat glands with botox and laser. One can also benefit from ozonated oils. In addition, we deactivate the overactive nerves by applying a radiofrequency method in hand and foot sweating. For example, in the feet… In the waist, there are centers that control the veins and nerves of our feet. Accompanied by advanced imaging techniques, we give radiofrequency device warnings to these centers and verify them. If we are in the right place, we start the application. These; Since there are applications made in the form of point shooting, sometimes it may be necessary to repeat it. Generally, such applications can be made in some pain clinics in Turkey. The radiofrequency method is also valid in hand sweats, but it should be taken into account that there are different nerve outputs. Some of the nerves that make the hands sweat go from the front of the neck, some of them lie under the neck.
Are There Any Other Improved Methods Against Sweating?
There is an endoscopic clipping method. Because it is a surgical job, it requires special techniques. It gives good results especially in hand and face sweating. However, in the clipping method, other sweating may occur as a reflex in the patient. Moreover, this time it is difficult to control. Apart from this, there is a treatment called iontophoresis with ions. The system we think is the most widely applied. But when we compare it with the radiofrequency method, none of these treatments. It is out of the question for us to achieve a permanent dimension in real terms.
Algology Prof. Dr. Nurettin LÜLECİ
