Treatment of Hyperhidrosis of Hands and Feet

What is hyperhidrosis of hands and feet? By understanding the literal meaning, people should be able to know that this refers to a disease in which the hands and feet often sweat excessively. Many people will find that their hands and feet sweat excessively, whether in winter or summer, this situation may be more common. This kind of situation happens frequently and needs treatment, not being left alone. Here we will introduce the treatment of hyperhidrosis of hands and feet.

In fact, the literal meaning of hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet can be understood. For mild patients, the palms remain moist for a long time, while for more serious patients, you will find that sweat beads can be seen with the naked eye when sweating, and the palms are usually cold. Because they are in a moist state for a long time, skin diseases such as dermatitis or frostbite often occur on the hands.

1. For external medication treatment , basically you can use anti-acetylcholine drugs such as atropine or propantheline. However, drugs such as acetylcholine have certain side effects. They can eliminate symptoms in a short period of time but cannot be taken for a long time.

2. Treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine: Traditional Chinese Medicine believes that excessive sweating of hands and feet is caused by spleen and stomach dysfunction, which can be divided into two types: deficiency and excess.

(1) People with weak spleen and stomach: People with weak spleen and stomach will have dampness and heat accumulated in the body. As the dampness and heat tend to move downward, it causes symptoms of excessive sweating in the extremities, especially the feet, which is the most common, accounting for 70% to 80%. For such patients, we recommend food therapy, eating more ingredients that have the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, such as bitter melon, yam, coix seed, lotus seeds and red dates, etc., and they can also use external anti-sweat Chinese medicine bags, which are very effective in regulating excessive sweating of hands and feet. In addition, you can also exercise more, because Chinese medicine believes that exercise can replenish yang energy and change physical weakness.

(2) Spleen and stomach excess syndrome: This type of patients suffer from the following symptoms: This is mainly caused by daily lifestyle habits, such as excessive drinking and eating too much spicy and greasy food. They often have symptoms such as bad breath, bitter taste in the mouth, constipation, yellow and turbid urine, and thick and greasy tongue coating.

It is recommended that such patients drink less alcohol and try not to eat spicy food. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables.

3. Surgical treatment: Surgical treatment is the most effective. The specific location is the sympathetic nerve position of the sweat glands in the hands, which is almost on the nipple line and a little higher on both sides of the back spine. After cutting off the sympathetic nerves, the purpose of stopping sweating in the hands can be achieved.

Hyperhidrosis of the hands and feet is indeed a disease that is quite embarrassing in social interactions. You can only tell others that you sweat easily because your sweat glands are well developed. It is very likely that the first impression of you will not be very good. Therefore, it is recommended that patients consider their own physical condition regardless of whether they choose conservative treatment or surgical treatment, and then do more exercise to improve their body's resistance.