Excessive Sweating( Causes, Symptoms)
September 4, 2009 – 9:21 amExcessive sweating is due to sympathetic over-excitement caused by excessive secretion of sweat glands of a disease, sympathetic innervation of sweat the body. Under normal circumstances sympathetic control of sweating through the heat to regulate body temperature. However, patients with hyperhidrosis sweating and facial flushing completely lost the normal control, sweating and facial flushing make patients feel a daily frustration, irritability, or panic.
What causes excessive sweating? Generalized hyperhidrosis may be an abnormal physiological response, or certain diseases, such as hyperthyroidism, diabetes, etc. one of the symptoms. Local hyperhidrosis may be due to injury or abnormal sympathetic response to acetylcholine secretion increased, leading to excessive secretion of eccrine sweat.
From the incidence of causes of excessive sweating can be broadly classified into three categories.
First, as a result of systemic diseases, such as endocrine disorders (hyperthyroidism, diabetes, pituitary hyperthyroidism, etc.), nervous system diseases, some infectious diseases (malaria, tuberculosis, etc.) and long-term illness caused by physical weakness. As long as these systemic diseases are controlled the situation after the hyperhidrosis can be resolved.
Second, the spirit of sweating, due to a high degree of tension and emotion caused because the sympathetic nervous disorder and the oral administration of some sedative drugs (such as atropine, Propantheline, belladonna mixture, etc.) have a temporary effect, but there are side effects such as dry mouth.
Third, the taste of sweat, and belongs to a different physiological phenomena, such as to eat some spicy food (chili, garlic, ginger, cocoa, coffee) caused by hyperhidrosis after, this is rarely necessary to carry out treatment, only stop eating those foods.
What are the symptoms of excessive sweating and how to diagnose?
1. Generalized hyperhidrosis sweat easily expressed as whole body, internal and external factors that stimulated increased sweating. Seen in hyperthyroidism, encephalitis sequelae, after damage to the hypothalamus.
2. Hyperhidrosis showed partial body side of the body sweating, in addition to the aftermath of hemiplegic stroke patients outside the side of hyperhidrosis, and often no positive signs, autonomic nervous system examination, sweating side of the skin temperature is low, the skin striping positive sign.
3. The limitations of hyperhidrosis to occur in head, neck, axilla and the distal limbs, most likely to occur in the palm of your hand, foot position, bilateral symmetric, but also can occur in one or a small piece parts.
4. Auriculotemporal syndrome, temporal side of the red, with the limitations of hyperhidrosis often occurs in the consumption of acid, to stimulate the taste of food after the Sim.
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