Do you realize your body has 4 million sweat glands and that a lot of them are in your hands, feet, face and underarms?
Statistics show that approximately 3 percent of the earth’s population or, over 175 million individuals, have problems with an excess sweating condition known as hyperhidrosis? One that can easily be genetically inherited resulting in several members of the same family all having the condition. This is, quite often, a very serious problem. Of all the forms that hyperhidrosis can take, the most frequent is known as “Palmar Hyperhidrosis” which is regular and excessive sweat in the palms of the hands.
If you are one of those who suffer with this affliction, you know that this sort of sweat problems present a regular daily struggle because it not merely influences your physical well-being, but it also impacts your emotional well-being as well. Your excess sweating has to be taken into account in everything from how you dress for the day, to how it affects personal relationships and, possibly even your career.
And that is something most non sufferers do not understand. If your career depends on constant personal interactions, such as sales, excess sweating is a real problem. Or, if you are in research or instrumentation your ability to securely hold laboratory equipment or small tools can easily be compromised.
Clearly, hyperhidrosis is often a serious problem, but it is also one that can be handled quite successfully.
Over time, medical research has developed many different types of hyperhidrosis treatment.
Most radical is surgery that cuts the sympathetic nerve stem to the hands. While this approach will generally cure the sweat problems, there are drawbacks as well. Surgery is expensive and always carries some risk of complications. Also, it is not recommended for anyone still in their teenage years which is when hyperhidrosis is most often identified.
Other methods of sweating remedies include anti-perspirants and heavy creams that are applied directly to the areas with the sweating symptoms. Although these remedies will stop your excess sweating for a while, they are not cures and the sweat will return.
But, research has demonstrated that one hyperhidrosis treatment, iontophoresis, is extremely effective at controlling excess sweating of both the hands and feet.
An iontophoresis machine is a device that generates a safe, weak, electrical current into a dish of water where you place your hands or feet. The interaction of the minerals in the water with the current works to close the sweat glands and preventing your sweating symptom.
A commercial iontophoresis machine will cost upwards of a thousand dollars but can easily be put together at home for less than a hundred dollars.
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