Sentences with phrase «of hyperhidrosis»

The diagnosis and treatment of excessive sweating depends on the type of hyperhidrosis and the area affected.

Your doctor will determine which treatment method is best for you based on the type of hyperhidrosis you suffer from, your age, and your general medical condition.

There are three main types of hyperhidrosis: primary focal hyperhidrosis, generalized idiopathic hyperhidrosis, and secondary generalized hyperhidrosis.

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I was born in New Hampshire, grew up in Pennsylvania, and somewhere between June first and June sixth of my first summer in Georgia, I realized just how pitifully Irish I was, with my outer dermal layer fully crisped and a new understanding of the term «hyperhidrosis».

Hyperhidrosis sufferers often feel a loss of control because the sweating happens independently — without a high body temperature or highly charged emotional situation.

Most patients with generalized idiopathic hyperhidrosis (which affects large areas of the body) can be treated with oral medications.

Secondary generalized hyperhidrosis causes large areas of the body to sweat.

There is a subset of individuals with hyperhidrosis that is caused by other conditions such as medications, cancers, metabolic and hormonal imbalances, infections and nerve injury.

About 3 percent of people in the United States have hyperhidrosis, which means they sweat too much, often from one or two areas of the body (usually the underarms, palms, feet or head), according to Malcolm Brock, MD, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Sweating Disorders.

When excess sweating, aka hyperhidrosis, strikes in adulthood, it's often a side effect of a prescription drug or a symptom of another condition, ranging from an infection to diabetes.

Secondary cranial hyperhidrosis is a side effect of another medical condition.

Primary hyperhidrosis is localized to a certain part of the body, such as the head, though these symptoms will appear symmetrically when the patient experiences sweat on the limbs.

In fact, it's estimated that up to 3 % of the population suffers from night sweats, or what is medically known as nocturnal hyperhidrosis.

Stress and exercise both significantly increased the rate of sweating by two to five points in those with palmar hyperhidrosis, as well as in the control group (31).

If you have hyperhidrosis, a medical condition that causes excessive sweating, there's a chance insurance will cover the cost of Botox for sweating.

I suffer from hyperhidrosis so excessive sweating for me has always been a source of annoyance and embarrassment.

Symptoms of nerve damage include numbness, tingling, burning, difficulty moving a body part, radiating pain down one side of your body, brief and intense headaches, and hyperhidrosis.