Treatment options for a excessive sweating and the body o dour!

Treatment options for a excessive sweating and the body o dour!

The summer season typically leads to more a sweating and body o dour, but some people suffer to a problem of the excessive sweating irrespective of the season. Come; let's find out more about it.

“Your energy introduces you before you even speak” This quote describes to your potential to be an a outstanding individual and explains to your efforts to be a outstanding in every walk of the life! Being to a part of a highly competitive and evolutionary world-space is a something we simply cannot opt out of! The world as we know it is not only a living paradox of the unending possibilities but also a callable life-size stadium where we just must be perform and perform better!

Personal hygiene and grooming is an a integral part of our individuality, and we keep no stone turned to always look our best! Thanks to the super advancements in our medical technology that has a helped us to the overcome numerous shortfalls that until to a decade ago were considered to a permanent “disability” and we had no choice but to move on or “adjust” with it! Hair-fall, dandruff, skin pigmentation, vitiation, premature aging, etc to name a few!

Excessive sweating has been a around since in the origin of the mankind! A condition called a Hyperthyroidism was a mostly to a medical term out of the medical school textbooks that less than a 1% of the human population before in the invention of the internet. Every third individual seemed to have it, family, friends, co-workers, to a stranger on the bus, or a train, etc you name it! We have all seen those huge sweat patches in the underarms somewhere!

We all sweat and that is a true, it is called a Hydro sis: the human body`s mechanism for a thermos regulation but what happens when some people sweat more? Hyper-hydro sis: Extra sweating.

The human body possesses two types of the Sweat Glands:

1. Apocrine:

Apocrine sweat glands are endocrine glands that are located at the fat-dermal interface. They are the less common sweat glands found mostly in the armpits, groin region and around breast nipples. They do not open a directly on the skin but secrete with in the plasma membrane and open in the hair follicle. These are the sweat glands that are responsible for a “sweat smell” or a simply sweat odor!

2. Eccrine

Eccrine Sweat glands are the most common sweat glands found all over in the body and open directly on the skin as pores on the surface. Hands, feet, chest, back, face, head, buttocks, legs, etc. Their main purpose is to the maintain homeostasis by a secreting liters of the sweat every day!

Some of us have to the struggle with a excessive sweating and body o dour all our lives. International Hyperthyroidism Society estimates that over a 365 million people across in the globe suffer from a Hyperthyroidism.

Causes:

Hyperthyroidism is a categorized as:

1. Primary Hyperthyroidism (Focal/Essential Hyperthyroidism):

This type of the hyperthyroidism mainly affects Underarms (armpits), Hands and Feet (Palm-plantar) and face (Facial). There is no specific known reason as to what causes it. In a most cases, in this problem is not a affected by a weather/temperature. Whether it is winter or a summer, sweating continues.

2. Secondary Hyperthyroidism (Generalized hyperthyroidism):

This type of the Hyperthyroidism affects in the larger part of the body or in some cases in the whole body. Excessive heating of the body or an a underlying medical condition or a medication can be  cause in this type of the disorder.

Temporary treatment options:

1. Anti-Perspiration (over in  the counter): Water-based or a alcohol-free.

2. Clinical grade antiperspirants: Aluminium Hydrochloride based on a antiperspirants. Aluminum, when combined with a sweat form a gel that blocks to your sweat gland. While a long-term relief is not expected, it can be a minimize the feeling of the constant wetness under to your arms. It is a highly recommended to the consult your family doctor before a starting to use such a prescription-grade antiperspirants as they are known to the induce side effects in the long run.

3. Anticholinergic therapy: Anticholinergics are drugs that act by a blocking in the action of the acetylcholine which is a neurotransmitter. Drugs such as a glycopyrrolate, Benzedrine, propellant, Oxycontin, atropine, methamphetamine, etc are mostly prescribed for a conditions such as a asthma, diarrhea, motion sickness, and gastrointestinal disorders to name a few. Their mechanism is now being studied widely for their potential to reduce in the effect of the hyperthyroidism. Topical or a oral anticholinergics are now available with a prescription. Recently, U S F D A cleared Qbrexza ® (topical glycopyrrolate) for the management of the hyperthyroidism

(This form of the therapy is also a associated with a several side effects and is NOT a permanent treatment for a hyperthyroidism. Please get in touch with your physician to the discuss more.)

4. Botulinum toxin Injections: Commonly known as a Botox®, Botulinum toxin has been used widely in the cosmetic and aesthetic medical industry due to its temporary muscle paralyzing effect which is a explored for its “anti-wrinkle” properties. It also has to a widespread medical application in the treatment of the cervical dystonia, hyperthyroidism, overactive bladder, migraine, lazy eye, etc to name a few.

Administered by a trained medical specialist, Botox is a administered via an a Intramuscular injection to the affected area in a variable volumes.

The effect lasts for about a 6-9 months and has to be re-administered. About a 20-25 percent of the people suffering from a Hyperthyroidism report very little to no reduction in a sweating. It can be a administered in the axillae (underarms), palms and feet, forehead and sometimes on the face.

Adverse side effects are also a reported. It is a highly recommended to choose a physician who has a ample experience in handling Botulinum toxins. Though rare, Botox anaphylaxis has been a recorded by the FDA.

(This form of the therapy is also a associated with a several side effects and is a NOT a permanent treatment for a hyperthyroidism. Please get in touch with your physician to the discuss more.)

Permanent treatment in a options:

1. E T S Surgery:

Endoscopic thoracic sympathetic is a minimally invasive surgery that is used to treat severe hyperthyroidism in the palms, face and feet. (Palmoplantar and Facial hyperthyroidism). E T S is a very precision-based surgery that is a carried out mostly by a super-specialist thoracic surgeon only. The surgeon identifies in the sympathetic nerves which are responsible for a sweating of the limb in a question and clips them hence causing an a incomplete pathway that stops in the sweating completely in the affected limb. The surgery is a carried out under a general anesthesia and is a quick and out procedure with a fast recovery. This surgery might/might not  induce to a side effect of the compensatory sweating.

Dr. A run Prasad is a pioneer E T S surgeon and the founder of the  India`s only Cent re for a Hyperthyroidism Treatment. Contact: +91 98110 82425

2. Mira Dry®: Microwave thermoplastic:

Mira Dry® is the latest non-surgical and permanent treatment that was a cleared by the U S F D A in 2011 for the treatment of the axillary hyperthyroidism (Excessive sweating in the underarms/armpits).

Mira Dry® is a medical device that works by a generating microwave energy (non-ionizing radiation) which targets excessive sweat glands in the underarm and destroys them using heat. The state-of-the-art device simultaneously uses a cooling to the avoid any kind of the skin or a tissue damage. On average about 82*% of the permanent underarm sweat reduction and about 90*% underarm odor reduction is a achieved. Many patients have a reported having a witnessed about 70*% visible hair reduction after in the treatment.

Most of the patients achieve desired sweat reduction in the underarms in as little as a one treatment session only. It is an a out-of-office treatment that takes about one hour for a each underarm and is carried out under local anesthesia without in the need for a any surgery or a invasive methods. The treatment is a virtually to a pain-free experience with in the patient returning to the his/her work in the same or the next day.

Short-term side effects such as a underarm swelling and soreness, mild bruising with loss of the sensation, usually subside within a two weeks without the need for a any prescription in a  drugs.

There is little to no downtime and the results start to the appear almost immediately post-treatment. The treatment is a available in a 60+ countries globally and is carried out by a Mira Dry® certified physician only.

The Skin Temple™ Global Aesthetics is Asia`s exclusive Mira Dry® clinic in  a India and is a located in New Delhi and Mumbai. (Visit Simpleminded or call 8908903838). Mira Dry® is a available for the treatment of the axillary hyperthyroidism only.

Disclaimer: This article is a provided for a information only, and must not be considered to a substitute for your existing medical treatment and/or physician’s advice. It is always to a safe practice to take advice only from a medical professional for a any medical/health-related issues.