Sweating: A Step-By-Step Mop-It-Up Guide

Sweating, it’s all the rage in most of us. Some of us even take it into the sauna to increase it ten-fold. It’s the body saying you’ve worked hard and here’s proof. Wear it as a badge of honor.

Change that thought to the young boy in his teens who’s sweating like a devil in double math. It’s nothing to do with differential equations or even the charms of Miss Cuthbert son, the comely supply teacher.

We all have had a stinky Steve or pungent Polly in our midst. There is an answer to the problem of these poor souls, although sometimes the hyperhidrosis – excessive sweating has an underlying reason.

Puberty: This is a time of serious change in the body of a teenager. When the force of puberty meets an unmovable object, the gloves are off and there’s an internal fight like no other. Sweat is produced.

Obesity: Big folk sweat like nothing else. Their bodies have done two times the action our sweat glands get up to. Be nice to them and let them stroll to their hearts content.

Heredity: Blame Mum and Dad. Remember the stains under their armpits when they danced at Auntie Anne’s birthday last summer. Yep, you’ve got it.

Spinal and nerve abnormalities: An increase in sweating can be the result of problems in this department.

The brain: The little hypothalamus guy in there just turns on the water works if he gets all of a sensitive. Get anxious and he’ll really put the sprinkler on.

Thankfully, the majority of these situations may be temporary (as with puberty for example) or may be controlled to some degree. Methods to deal with the problem can be separated into two categories: Non obtrusive methods include the following.

Anti-per spirants: Most of us use these on a daily basis and they are effective in masking the smell of stale odor. For excessive sweating prescription varieties may be obtained which contain aluminum chloride hex hydrate to control the sweating.

Oral methods: Robinul is a type of drug called an ant cholinergic which can reduce sweating.

Iontophoresis: Electricity to the sweat glands has shown to be an effective method in many situations.

The less obvious options are the obtrusive methods which can be expensive and potentially dangerous. Botox treatment requires many injections in the armpit, with good effect for a six month period. Surgery is the more dangerous and involves complex procedure that would have most of us sweating like suckling pigs on a spit. Stick to the under arm deodorant in the meantime perhaps.

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