If
you have spent any time looking in the local drug store, you will see
that there are plenty of products that promise to cure the sweating or
perspiration problem. Everything from powders and creams to body
sprays, but the trouble is that most of them are just targeting the
symptom - excessive sweating - instead of treating the root cause of
the
problem.
The
cause of hyperhidrosis varies, and may at times be caused by a problem
with the metabolism, but generally it
is overactive sweat glands that are the problem.
There
are several things that you can do to
treat your hyperhidrosis. From a medical standpoint, there are the over
the counter powders and sprays that are available and you can be
prescribed a stronger antiperspirant. There are some oral medicines,
but these carry a list of side effects that may be as uncomfortable as
what they are treating and believe it or not you can even treat your
hyperhidrosis with Botox, if you don't mind injecting poison under your
skin.
In
allopathy or conventional medicine,
refractory cases of hyperhidrosis or profuse sweating, topical agents
such as aluminium chloride in ethyl alcohol are prescribed for axillary
sweating but is often useless for sweating hands. Short term courses of
anticholinergic drugs are also useful in severely afflicted patients,
but the side effects of dry mouth, drowsiness and constipation
frequently occur. They all are frequently prescribed which is merely a
short term solution. It just suppresses and continues to suppress the
symptom and finally a stage of resistence comes in and surgery is
advised.
Endoscopic
thoracic sympathetomy or ETS is
one of the surgical procedures which are in fashion today. This
procedure causes relief of excessive hand sweating in about 80 to 90%
of cases. Major drawbacks related to compensatory sweating (i.e.
sweating of the back, chest and face) are seen in 60 to 80% of cases.
Some patients have also been shown to experience a cardiac sympathetic
denervation, which results in a 10% lowered heartbeat during both rest
and exercise.
Statistics
have shown that when treated for
facial flushing and / or excessive facial perspiration, the failure
rate of ETS for these two clinical presentations is higher and patients
are more prone to side effects.
Many
more that suffer from sweating problems
have found their cure for hyperhidrosis in the form of natural
homeopathic treatments that have helped many break free from profuse
sweating or hyperhidrosis.
The
homeopathic way of treatment is
different from allopathy. Hyperhidrosis is nothing but an expression of
the disturbance in the inner hormonal balance and this is expressed in
the form of the profuse discharge (of sweat). Hence, it is required to
be treated at the inner level rather than treating it by local
applications of creams and antibiotics.
Homeopathy
treats the person as a whole,
which means that homeopathic treatment focuses on the patient as a
person, as well as his pathological condition. The homeopathic
medicines are selected after a full individualizing examination and
case analysis, which includes the medical history of the patient,
physical and mental constitution and so on.
Homeopathy
provides natural constitutional
remedies for treating the root cause of this condition and not just
working on the symptom - it repairs the derangement which is causing
the hyperhidrosis. It offers excellent treatment which is effective,
harmless, and without any side effects. It is recommended even in the
most obstinate cases.
Today,
homeopathic remedies are the best non
surgical solution for hyperhidrosis or profuse sweating or perspiration.
There
are 245 homoeopathic medicines which
give great relief in hyperhidrosis or profuse sweating or perspiration.
However, the correct choice and the resulting relief is a matter of
experience and right judgment on the part of the homeopathic doctor.
The treatment is decided after a thorough case taking of the patient.
Thus, homeopathic remedies for hyperhidrosis are tailor made, unlike
allopathy, in which all patients receive the same surgery or drugs -
although the trade name of the drugs may be different