Excessive sweating - Hyperhydrosis
Sweaty shirts, palms, or wet socks, do these sound like you? Anxious and embarrassed?
If so, FRESHface Clinic can reduce this by up to 80%!
In a short visit we can help normalize your sweating for up to 12 months, so do something for your sweating!
Sweating is normal, but excessive sweating isn't. This is called hyperhydrosis, and it is more common than you might think.
Various areas may be affected - axillary (underarm), hands, feet, groin and then there may even be generalized hyperhydrosis.
Diagnosis is really important, since many families and even doctors don’t understand this condition, we at FRESHface Clinic, take great pride in treating and helping our patients with this difficult condition.
Hyperhydrosis can have significant affects socially and in the work place, the embarrassment of shaking hands, or hugging a person can isolate a persons social interaction, with a sweaty hand, the ability to person in some jobs may be impossible. Anxiety can exacerbate the situation for many sufferers. A common complaint of patients is that they get nervous because they sweat, then sweat even more because they are nervous.
Having underarm shirts that are wet, to wet socks, with fungal infections are some of the other common complaints. Needless to say there can be staining of the clothes in underarm sweating.
There are essentially two types of Hyperhydrosis, primary, and secondary. In Primary, the sweating is noticed to be excessive in adolescence or even earlier and there is no obvious cause found. With secondary, this usually starts later in life, and some possible causes are diseases of the thyroid, pituitary, tumours, drugs, and menopause. This is why it really is important to see a doctor experienced in this condition.
Possible treatments are
- Aluminium Chloride,
- iontophoresis
- medications
- antidepressants.
- surgery.
Our main aim is to give guidance and the best treatment for each individual, we don’t want to stop sweating, we want to reduce it to a normal level.
Using our muscle relaxant injections for Hyperhydrosis, the treatment usually gives over 80% reduction in sweating for at least 8 months, some of our patients have seen a result up to 12months! There is usually little pain, and minimal side effects.
So if Hyperhydrosis is affecting your life- now is the time to come see us!
