Troubled by Profuse Sweating? It Must Be Hyperhidrosis

I know of some people who sweat profusely and I'm sure they find their condition rather embarrassing. Even with such simple movements, as in taking a few steps up the second floor of a building or in merely reaching for a book deep inside a shelf,  they experience excessive sweating. The medical field has a term for this unpleasant condition - hyperhidrosis.

The usual suspect that causes hyperhidrosis is intense emotion (nervous tension, anxiety, or fear); it may also be the consequence of some underlying medical condition, such as diabetes, undulant fever, exophthalmic goiter, and tuberculosis. In many cases, hyperhidrosis is usually controlled when the underlying cause is counteracted. It is certainly a good idea to see your doctor for this purpose.

In hyperhidrosis, portions of the skin surface (or even the whole of it) are affected - usually the forehead, brow, hands, or feet. In cases when small, circumscribed parts of the skin are involved, heightened activity of the autonomic ganglia (clusters of neuronal cell bodies and their branched projections, or dendrites) may be responsible.

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