What Is The Cause Of Excessive Sweating And What Can Be Done To Treat It?

Excessive sweating is caused by overactive sweat glands, particularly in specific regions for example the feet, under arms, hands, back, groin and face. Unlike regular perspiration, which is used to control your body heat, in people with hyperhidrosis, the sweat glands are over active, not because of external factors such as a hot room, a hot day or exercise, but always.

If your excessive sweating does not occur along with other symptoms, and is not a general, all-over body perspiration, it's considered primary hyperhidrosis. If your excessive perspiration is accompanied by additional symptoms and you have generalised sweating, then it is termed secondary hyper hidrosis which is usually the result of either drug side effects or an underlying medical condition.

No-one knows for sure what causes excessive sweating, but it's known that there is over-stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system which results in excess sweat production from the sweat glands. The sympathetic nervous system is the part of the nervous system that isn't under our conscious control. It is the same part of the nervous system that controls the movement of our digestive tract... it operates without us doing anything to control it.

It is believed that in hyperhidrosis, emotion, anxiety and stress might play active roles, but it's largely speculation and guesswork because the cause is simply not known.

One interesting clue regarding the cause of hyper hydrosis is that it seems to have a genetic component which indicates that specific genes may be involved. This information was sourced from Medline and is available online for you to verify. There is still extensive laboratory work being done by scientists to try to find the precise cause of hyperhidrosis. Hopefully, by identifying the genes involved, they'll be able to find out which proteins are responsible, and what they do. Those will be the next steps taken by the scientific community to find a cure for hyperhidrosis.

Excessive sweating treatment, assuming it's the primary type of hyperhidrosis, are various and complicated. They range from simple use of anti-perspirants and deoderants for manageable hyper hidrosis to surgical intervention involving severing the nerve to the sweat glands, or removing the sweat glands themselves. Cheap home remedies for hyperhidrosis have been found to help many people, especially when many different remedies are used at the same time. It's a good idea to think about simple, cheap options before expensive surgery or drugs.