In this episode, you will learn about excessive sweating and natural help for hyperhidrosis. This is one of those problems, that unless you are experiencing it, you really can’t understand how severe it is. Ever heard of hyperhidrosis? In short, it is excessive, and I mean like a faucet sweating, of a body part.

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Excessive Sweating: Natural Help for Hypderhidrosis

What is hyperhidrosis?

Hyperhidrosis is one of those things that unless you are experiencing it, you really can’t understand how severe it is. Ever heard of hyperhidrosis? In short, it is excessive, and I mean like turning on a faucet excessive, sweating of a body part.

Sometimes this sweating is confined to a specific and sometimes unusual body part, and sometimes it is full body sweating. Sometimes it shows up anytime, and sometimes there is a cause (even night sweats can be termed hyperhidrosis.)

This condition can be caused by a mild nervous system dysfunction or sometimes it is a secondary condition of an underlying chronic issue, like diabetes, menopause, Parkinson’s disease, certain medications, certain cancers, or hyperthyroidism—lots of different things can lead to excessive sweating. Other causes can include, just to exhaust the list:

Candida Abundance

Obesity

Pregnancy

Anxiety

Hypoglycemia

Certain illegal drugs or withdrawals from drugs or alcohol

Tuberculosis

HIV

Tobacco

Gout

Mercury poisoning

Lymphatic Infection

Endocrine Infection

Conventional Hyperhidrosis Treatments

Traditional interventions are generally bandaid symptom maskings and treatment of the underlying condition when possible. Frankly, western medicine is good at applying a medication or treatment to a set of symptoms rather than finding the cause and fix it at the root.

If you have ever seen the word “idiopathic” in front of a diagnosis, then that means the physician didn’t know the cause. It translates to laymen terms as “unknown.” So “idiopathic hyperhidrosis” would be excessive sweating of an unknown cause.

The types of treatments that are typically available in allopathic medicine are:

Heavy Duty Antiperspirants. Often prescription grade aluminum chloride, also known as a prescription “deodorant” in the form of a solution placed on the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, underarms, and around the hairline. This works by absorption of the active ingredients and plugging up the sweat glands.

As we know, aluminum in our deodorants that are regular strength are linked to breast cancer and Alzheimer's disease, can you imagine amping it up to prescription strength? This doesn’t fix the problem, only masks it.

Iontophoresis. Basically, it's a gentle electric shock. This treatment is given a few times a week, then weekly, and in some cases can be spread out to one time per month. This treatment doesn’t work well, but when it does, often a home unit is purchased so the treatments can be done at home.

Botox injections. Man, does this get expensive! There’s not a discount just because you aren’t using it for your facial wrinkles. Botox treatments for hyperhidrosis often require a LOT of botox. Botox works for wrinkles by paralyzing the muscles of the face, in hyperhidrosis patients, there is a risk of pretty significant muscle weakness depending on where the trouble is.