PROFUSE PERSPIRATION

Hyperhidrosis is excessive sweating, which can be focal or diffuse and has multiple causes. Sweating of the axillae, palms, and soles is most often a normal response due to stress, exercise, or environmental heat.

Types:

Focal sweating- Emotional causes are common, causing sweating on the palms, soles, axillae, and forehead at times of anxiety, excitement, anger, or fear. It may be due to a generalized stress-increased sympathetic outflow. Sweating is also common during exercise and in hot environments.

Generalized sweating- Generalized sweating involves most of the body. Although most cases are idiopathic, numerous conditions can be involved.

CAUSES:

Cancer - Lymphoma, leukemia

Central nervous system - Trauma, autonomic neuropathy

Drugs - Antidepressants, aspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, hypoglycemic agents, caffeine, theophylline; opioid withdrawal

Endocrine disorders - Hyperthyroidism, hypoglycemia, excessive secretion of sex hormones caused by gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists

IDIOPATHIC

Infections - Tuberculosis, endocarditis, systemic fungal infections

Others - Carcinoid syndrome, pregnancy, menopause, anxiety

MANAGEMENT TIPS:

• wearing loose and light clothes
• avoiding triggers, such as alcohol and spicy foods, that could make your sweating worse
• wearing black or white clothes to help minimise the signs of sweating

HOMOEOPATHIC MANAGEMENT:

SILICEA- Silicea is a very beneficial remedy for controlling sweat of feet, hands and armpits. The sweat is extremely offensive in character. In a few persons, the sweat on the feet has a sour or putrid odour. Silicea is also of great help for persons who have excessive sweating on hands, posing a difficulty in writing and grasping objects. It is also the most appropriate remedy for foul smelling sweat in armpits.

ACIDICUM HYDROFLOURICUM- Profuse, sour, offensive perspiration

CALCAREA CARB - sleeping, there is profuse sweating on the scalp, leaving the pillow extremely wet. Calcarea Carb helps in controlling the sweat of scalp, xcessive sweating has an accompanying symptom: chronic constipation.

MERC SOL - sweat is offensive or sour in nature. Weakness also accompanies profuse sweating. Apart from increased sweating, the other symptoms for persons who can greatly benefit from Merc Sol are an increase in thirst, excessive salivation, and profuse sweating.

Few other beneficial remedies are as followed: Acidum Nit –Belladonna –Jaborandi.