What Causes Excessive Underarm Sweating?
Excessive underarm sweating may caused by many reasons. The main cause of excessive underarm sweating is based upon the origin of the stimulus causing the sweating response.
Too much stress or anxiety may causing increased sensitivity of the sweat glands to the autonomic nervous system stimulation. Specifically, These nerves – part of the sympathetic nervous system located inside the chest cavity, in turn send the signals to the sweat glands to produce sweat.
How to stop excessive underarm sweating?
Traditional therapies include:
antiperspirants;
surgical removal of sweat glands;
severing the sympathetic nerves linked to the sweat glands (sympathectomy);
blocking the sweat glands with small galvanic electric currents (iontophoresis).
Although medicines (antiperspirants) is useful for stop excessive underarm sweating for a short time, which can block the neural transmitters controlling the sweat glands, this therapy has the severe drawback of causing side effects in body systems such as dry mouth, blurred vision, bloatedness and constipation. The effect is rarely complete and requires repeated treatments regularly.
Surgical removal of sweat glands to cure excessive underarm sweating is effective for most people and is widely advertised these days. However, it can lead to scarring in the underarms and other complications like decreased heart rate and gustatory sweating. Similarly, sympathectomy, which also is quite effective, carries the risk of unintended surgical side effects and rebound sweating in previously unaffected areas (compensatory hyperhidrosis). Iontophoresis requires repeated treatments regularly. The effect is rarely complete and it is inconvenient for most people.
A Home Remedy for Hyperhidrosis
Natural treatments to cure excessive sweating are by far the easiest and safe way to control the problem. I always recommend natural ways as the first choice to cure your excessive sweating. It’s definitely safer to try diet control and natural remedies first.
Diet control alone will not cure excessive sweating, but can help reduce it somewhat. Certain foods, such as onions, fish, garlic, and spicy foods like curry, can be smelled in the sweat. Try to reduce your intake of these types of foods.
