Stop Sweaty Palms

Perspiring or sweating is a natural reaction for our bodies to regulate heat. However, for some of us, we live our lives with excessive sweating on our face, feet and hands. About 1 – 2% of the population or about 10 million people in America alone have this condition. This is medically known as hyperhidrosis, an excessive hand sweating condition whereby the sweat or perspiration rate is in excess of that required to cool the body.

The Sympathetic Nervous System is an involuntary system which controls the 5 million sweat glands within your body and about 70% of your body’s sweat glands are located in the hands.

What Do Genes And Hyperhidrosis Have In Common
Although there have yet to be any definitive answer to the actual cause of hyperhidrosis, there are certain correlation between Hyberhidrosis and Genetics. More than 50% of patients have certain set profiles of genetic patterns, meaning that there is high possibility that severe hand sweat is hereditary in nature.

Hence, the most effective approach from the perspective of the surgeon is to conduct surgery to get rid of the related localized sweat glands in order to totally stop sweaty hands. Over the years, there have been many new methods and medical approaches developed surgically for the treatment.

Treatments to Stop Excessive Sweating – From a Surgical Perspective

Palmar Hypderhidrosis Treatment – To Stop Sweaty Hands
Excessive hand sweat or sweaty hands, is also known medically as Palmar Hyperhidrosis and the severity of this condition ranges from mild to dripping. At least 40% sufferers of excessive hand sweat are genetic in nature, beginning in early childhood and severity intensify throughout the teens and into adulthood.

For those who drip sweat, conservative methods of treatment no longer holds effect at all and the most effective treatment to completely stop sweaty hands is to conduct an ETS surgery, which essentially burns or clips the affect sweat glands to cause immediate relief from hand sweating. However, one key side effect is compensatory sweating on the torso, face, feet, groin or underarms. Iontophoresis treatment is still deem by millions who are successfully treated as the more effective approach to stop sweaty hands without the long term side effects.

Plantar Hyperhidrosis Treatment – For Sweaty Feet
Patients who suffer from Excessive hand sweating usually suffer from severe excessive foot sweating as well. Lumbar sympthectomy is a relatively new procedure which is clinically tested and proven to provide 95% success on all surgeries to stop excessive sweating on the feet.

This is an outpatient procedure which involves 3 small incisions with the endoscopic approach right above the left and right pelvis to remove or clip the affect sweat glands. Possible side effects include bleeding, pain, discomfort, retrograde ejaculation in male patients.

Axillary Hyperhidrosis Treatment – For Armpit Sweating
The Surgical term to get rid of excessive armpit sweating or axillary hyperhidrosis, is Axillary Suction Currettage whereby small incisions are made to scrap the areas of sweat glands thereby suctioning them. Success rates range from 90 to 95%. The possible side effects include skin loss, minimal or in rare cases the formation of fibroitic bands.

Note : It is critical to understand the repercussions of medical procedures, especially those which have been known to develop side effects more impeding to lifestyles than before the procedures. Recognize that certain surgical procedures are irreversible and if you are uncomfortable with the potential outcome and what life ensue after surgery, you still have recourse from other treatments for excessive sweating.