Excessive sweat of the hand as well as feet is a difficult problem that we face in our daily lives, affecting the normal functioning of life because of its impact on functions of hands and feet, as well as causing us some embarrassment because of the permanent moisture of the limbs, below we will mention all about the causes of this problem as well as the proposed solutions to treat this problem
The contents of the article
- What is sweating?
- What is hyperhidrosis?
- Types of hyperhidrosis
- Causes of sweating hands and feet
- Causes of secondary hyperhidrosis
- Symptoms of hyperhidrosis of the feet
- Risks associated with hyperhidrosis
- Ways to treat hyperhidrosis
- Prices for hyperhidrosis treatment
What is sweating?
Sweating is a natural process in which the body responds to different climate changes around it, such as low and high temperatures, as well as the change in the activity rate of the body and some disorders that occur to humans with different attitudes such as fear and anger, and the body\’s secretion of some liquids from the glands responsible increases.
What is hyperhidrosis?
Hyperhidrosis is the increase in the amount of sweat produced by the human body, whether in medical cases or when exerting a hard physical effort, panic and fear in situations that warrant it, or in cases of high temperatures and there are conditions in which sweat is produced in larger quantities than usual.
Types of hyperhidrosis
Types of hyperhidrosis vary as shown below:
Basic hyperhidrosis:
This type is also known as focal hyperhidrosis, which occurs in this type of excessive sweating in all places and from all the glands assigned to it, such as the areas of the hand, feet, under the armpits and head.
Secondary hyperhidrosis:
This type occurs as a secondary symptom that occur as a side effect associated with different medications or processes performed by humans, this type appears after adulthood and may affect the body completely as primary hyperhidrosis or only parts of it.
Causes of secondary hyperhidrosis
There are many reasons behind secondary hyperhidrosis as follows:
- Some medications for which hyperhidrosis comes as a side effect such as anti-Alzheimer\’s and depression.
- Types of infections and viruses.
- Some types of heart disease.
- It may be associated with diabetes.
- It may be associated with gout.
- The type of cancer known as Hodgkin
- HIV.
- Malaria.
- Tuberculosis.
Causes of sweating hands and feet
There are many diseases and wrong habits that may cause sweat of the hands and feet either routinely or excessively as follows:
- Diseases resulting from endocrine dysfunction such as thyroid dysfunction.
- Some tumors such as pituitary tumors.
- Side effects of some medications.
- Exposure to stress and nervous cartilage.
- Exposure to psychological and emotional pressures.
- Hard physical effort.
- Complications resulting from diabetes.
- Increasing the presence of sweat glands in the hands and feet.
- High temperatures.
Symptoms of hyperhidrosis of the feet
Highly accurate liquid drops appear inside skin cavities similar to fine grains or pores that are largely wide on both sides of the fingers of the foot.
In advanced cases, hyperhidrosis appears on the entire foot in the form of openings in the skin that resemble facial blisters while carrying moisture and are associated with some pain.
In unusual cases, these symptoms are expected to disappear within three weeks, but if these symptoms persist further, you should see a specialist in these cases.
Risks associated with hyperhidrosis
There are some serious risks associated with excessive sweating as follows:
- Some accompanying pains
- Severe itching
- Increased risk of bacterial infection
- Skin infections
Some ways to prevent hyperhidrosis
No specific steps have yet been identified when following them, preventing hyperhidrosis, but prevention is always better than treatment as described below:
- Wear gloves while performing various household affairs
- Use high quality types of hand detergent and shower
- Good skin drying
- Constantly moisturizing the skin
Treatment of sweating hands and feet
Some resort to proposed treatments, the results of which vary depending on the situation as follows:
- Controlling our emotions is a type of treatment associated with emotional hyperhidrosis.
- Avoid high caffeinated drinks as well as spicy foods.
- Keep your hands and feet dry continuously
- Maintain continuous ventilation of hands and feet
- Some used antiperspirants as a temporary solution
- Take a shower, daily
- Rely on socks and shoes made of natural materials.
- Resort to changing socks frequently.
Anticholinergic drugs:
These drugs prevent the transmission of nerve impulses from the symbiotic nerve, where it depends mainly on reducing the substance acetylcholine produced by the body and stimulates thyroid activity, when taking these medications the patient notices some significant improvement within two weeks of the start of treatment, these drugs may have harmful side effects; therefore, they cannot be relied upon mainly for long periods.
Surgery:
Surgery is the radical solution to sweating problems with which normal solutions do not work, so the doctor resorts to cutting the symbiotic nerve in the thoracic catheter responsible for stimulating the thyroid gland
Botox:
Botox injections are used to treat hyperhidrosis of the feet and hands, which are used as an auxiliary injection to close the nerves that stimulate the thyroid gland to work, treatment is often not enough Cases are in one injection and recovery requires several injections on varying sessions.
Iontophoresis:
Iontophoresis this method depends on electrical currents passing through this device underwater, the feet and hands are exposed to it and work to temporarily close the sweat glands, in this case the patient needs several sessions ranging from two to four or five sessions, one session take about 20 to 30 minutes.
Prices for hyperhidrosis treatment
Rates for treating hyperhidrosis of the hand and feet as well as for different areas vary as shown below:
- The price of hyperhidrosis treatment sessions in the UAE ranges from 1500 to 2000 AED
- Price of hyperhidrosis treatment sessions in Saudi Arabia 1000 and 2500 SR
- Price of hyperhidrosis treatment sessions in Egypt ranges from 2000 to 6800 LE
- Price of hyperhidrosis treatment sessions in Morocco ranges from 5,000 to 1,000$.
- Price of hyperhidrosis treatment sessions in Qatar ranges from 1,000 to 2,000$.
- Price of hyperhidrosis treatment sessions in America ranges from 800 to 1,500$.
We can now be assured of the fact that most of the solutions to the problems and diseases which occur in different ages and places of the body as well as wherever we are, due to the development of advanced medical technology throughout the world.