The Problem of Underarm Sweating Can Destroy Your Social Life in a Jiffy
Friday, March 6, 2009
If you are facing the problem of excessive underarm sweating, you should take immediate steps to rectify the condition.
The first that you should take is to determine whether the problem is a medical one or whether the problem is related to poor personal hygiene. If the latter reason is true, then you should take immediate steps to improve your personal hygiene. Poor personal hygiene is believed to be one of the causes of the disease commonly known as axillary hyperhidrosis. If you do not want you sweat glands to perpetually function in the 'On' position, you had better pay attention to your personal hygiene.
If you maintain your body well but continue to face the problem of excessive underarm sweating, you may be suffering from the disorder of axillary hyperhidrosis. Hyperhidrosis may either be primary or secondary in nature.
Secondary hyperhidrosis takes place as a reaction to any other medical problem or medication. This may be good news as the chances are high that the excessive sweating may stop once your condition improves or once you go off the medication.
However, if you are not suffering from any disease or problem and yet continue to suffer from abnormal sweating, you may be suffering from primary hyperhidrosis, which is a medical condition by itself.
The problem of underarm sweating leads to certain peculiar problems. Excessive sweating of different body parts leads to different problems.
Excessive head sweating makes it impossible to conceal the problem. Immediate remedies have to be implemented to ensure that the problem remains under control. Excessive sweating in legs and feet makes it very difficult to walk and move. Socks and shoes become wet with the sweat and smell a lot. Further, mobility becomes restricted and the person's gait and posture is also affected. Further, the fact that the feet are enclosed in damp cloth increases the risk of infections.
In case of excessive underarm sweating, the problem of body odor becomes very acute. The bacteria residing in the armpits lead to body odor. Excessive underarm sweating makes it very difficult to control the body odor. This makes it very difficult for the patient to function in society. Meeting people, talking to people, going out with friends, sitting in a meeting- all these tasks become very difficult if one is always conscious about one's body odor.
Further, the person finds it impossible to function in the same pair of clothes for long. By mid day, the shirt becomes completely drenched. Even if the person manages to dry the shirt, the stains make it impossible to continue wearing the shirt. Even a mid day shower does not help as the sweat continues to flow and ooze out of the body.
A host of remedies are available in the world of medicine to cure underarm sweating. However, no remedy can claim to cure the disorder on a universal basis. Even surgery is not infallible. There are instances where even surgical cure has not worked.
Source : http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1363361
