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Åtgärda eller behandla bakomliggande orsak. Diagnosing hyperhidrosis may start with your health care provider asking about your medical history and symptoms. You may also need a physical exam or tests to further evaluate the cause of your symptoms. Your health care provider may recommend blood, urine or other lab tests to see if your sweating is caused by another medical condition, such as an overactive thyroid hyperthyroidism or low blood sugar hypoglycemia.
Moisture-sensitive powder indicates the presence of heavy sweating top compared with hands after surgery to treat hyperhidrosis bottom.
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Or you may need a test that pinpoints the areas of sweating and evaluates how severe your condition is. Two such tests are an iodine-starch test and a sweat test. Treating hyperhidrosis may start with treating the condition causing it. If a cause isn't found, treatment focuses on controlling heavy sweating. If new self-care habits don't improve your symptoms, your health care provider may suggest one or more of the following treatments.
Even if your sweating improves after treatment, it may recur.
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Prescription antiperspirant. Your health care provider may prescribe an antiperspirant with aluminum chloride Drysol, Xerac AC. Apply it to dry skin before going to bed. Then wash the product off when you get up, taking care to not get any in your eyes. Once you start seeing results from using it daily for a few days, you can scale back to once or twice a week to maintain the effect. This product can cause skin and eye irritation.
Talk with your health care provider about ways to reduce side effects. Botulinum toxin injections. Treatment with botulinum toxin Botox blocks the nerves that trigger the sweat glands.
Most people don't feel much pain during the procedure. But you may want your skin numbed beforehand. Your health care provider might offer one or more of the methods used to numb skin. These include topical anesthesia, ice and massage vibration anesthesia. Each affected area of your body will need several injections. It may take a few days to notice results. To retain the effect, you'll likely need repeat treatments about every six months.
A possible side effect is short-term muscle weakness in the treated area. With this home treatment, you soak your hands or feet in a pan of water while a device passes mild electric current through the water. The current blocks the nerves that trigger sweating. You can buy the device if you have a prescription from your health care provider. You'll need to soak the affected areas for 20 to 40 minutes.
Repeat the treatment 2 to 3 times a week until your symptoms improve. After you get results, you can reduce treatments to once a week or once a month to maintain the effect. Talk with your health care provider if you experience side effects. Nerve surgery sympathectomy. During this procedure, the surgeon removes a small section of the spinal nerves that control sweating in your hands.
A possible side effect is permanent heavy sweating in other areas of your body compensatory sweating. Surgery is generally not an option for isolated head and neck sweating. A variation on this procedure treats the palms. It interrupts the nerve signals without removing the sympathetic nerve sympathotomy , which reduces the risk of compensatory sweating. Because nerve surgery has a risk of side effects and complications, it is usually only considered for people who have tried many other treatments without good results.
Each of these procedures may be done with general anesthesia or with local anesthesia and sedation. There is a problem with information submitted for this request. Sign up for free and stay up to date on research advancements, health tips, current health topics, and expertise on managing health.