Excessive sweating
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What is excess sweating?

Excess sweating is medically known as hyperhidrosis and is often an embarrassing condition, causing you to sweat much more than your body needs to in order to regulate its temperature. It is fairly common in the UK, with roughly one million people having this condition.

The most commonly affected area is the underarms. However, excessive sweating may be also present in many parts of the your body, including hands, feet, face and head. Sweating is generally harmless and happens to both men and women.

What causes excess sweating?

The most common causes for excessive sweating can be environmental, medical or even emotional. For example:

  • Sudden changes in body temperature
  • Stress
  • Diabetes
  • Pregnancy
  • Menopause
  • Alcoholism
  • Obesity
  • Medication side effects
  • Infectious diseases
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Signs and symptoms

Damp or wet palms of your hands

Damp or wet soles of your feet

Noticeable sweating that soaks through your clothing

Skin problems

If your sweating is severe, it means you might also be experiencing irritating and painful skin problems, such as fungal or bacterial infections. Contact your GP if this is your scenario.

Treatments for sweating

When you apply apple cider vinegar directly to your skin, it acts as an astringent to help remove bacteria and close up pores. Applying it directly to your sweaty area each night can help reduce your excessive sweat.

Tomato can shrink your pores and reduce your chronic sweat. Eating a tomato or drinking a glass of tomato juice everyday will help prevent you from sweating excessively.

The acidic properties that lemons contain will help reduce unwanted sweating. Squeeze a lemon into a small bowl to extract the liquid. With a cotton pad apply it on your skin, leave it for 30 minutes, and then rinse.

Injectables are currently the most effective, clinically proven treatment available you may have to stop producing excessive sweat. It takes only 30-45 minutes.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best deodorant to stop sweating? Plus Icon

Regular deodorants prevent body odor but they don’t reduce sweating. Antiperspirants contain aluminum-based compounds that block sweat. You can use any version – spray, gel and roll-on – as long as they contain antiperspirant.

What is the cause of night sweats? Plus Icon

Night sweats are often linked to hormonal imbalances among women, especially during menopause. However, men can experience night sweats when suffer from anxiety, low blood sugar or drink too much alcohol.

Why does sweat smell? Plus Icon

Sweat itself isn’t smelly at all. Actually, it is your apocrine glands that produce sweat that is high in protein. This results in bacteria breaking it down easily, and as a result is the cause bad body odours.

At sk:n we have a range of treatments designed to help you get the results you want.

Our specialist doctors and nurses can recommend the best path for you to take.

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