Profuse sweating or hyperhidrosis is a horrible condition that has many negative effects that can cause all types of self esteem issues that generally come from social situations.
Excess sweating has many different causes and reasons why it happens in some people and not to others. Most people who suffer from profuse sweating, often suffer silently as they view their condition as highly embarrassing and they go to great lengths to cover up their problem.
The social affects of excessive sweating can be huge on sufferers. Take hands for example, the hands are such an intimate and greatly used body part.
You are constantly being touched and touching other people. Sufferers of excess sweating find it hard to touch other people and if they do, they often feel disgusted and embarrassed about what people could be thinking about their “slimy hands”.
It is a common belief that the main cause of hyperhidrosis is due to stress. When a person experiences stress, they activate the sympathetic nerves, these glands are responsible for the “fight or flight response” that most people are aware of. There are many chemical reactions that fire off from this type of response and one in particular effects the amount of sweat that is released by the sweat glands.
This chemical is called acetylcholine and it is this chemical that can stimulate your sweat glands into producing large quantities of fluid. So if your sympathetic nerves are constantly being stimulated then your neuro transmitters will be over stimulated and cause excessive amounts of certain chemicals to be released which will effect the sweat glands.
All people react differently to stress, that is why not everyone suffers from profuse sweating. The sympathetic nervous system can be stimulated in other ways as well. Strong and spicy foods such as Indian or African foods, emotionally charged states and increased air temperatures are all ways in which the sympathetic nervous system can over stimulate itself and cause excessive sweating problems.
So in order to find out exactly what is triggering profuse sweating, you will need to be a “sweat detective”. You will need to watch every little thing that you experience through your five senses and watch how these stimulants effect you. Mainly keep an eye on the things mentioned in this article but also keep your attention on things that you may not have thought could effect your excess sweating.
There are many treatment options available for people who suffer from hyperhidrosis, some effective and some not so effective. But everyone reacts differently to treatments so you will need to test a few out until you find one that works effectively for you. What works for one person may not work at all for another. So treat your problem as unique but do seek treatment options that have been proven effective in the most cases of profuse sweating.
Knowledge is power! And when it comes to hyperhidrosis knowledge definitely is power but when you add action to that knowledge, amazing results will happen in your ability to greatly reduce profuse sweating in the shortest amount of time possible.