What causes sweaty feet

I believe that many people have the habit of sweating feet, especially in late spring, early autumn and hot summer. Sweating feet is a common occurrence. People with sweaty feet usually have very smelly feet and need to wash their feet and socks every day. It is not surprising to have sweaty feet, but if your feet sweat particularly severely, you need to pay attention. If analyzed from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, this may be caused by damage to some body organs.

However, if you want to help yourself solve the problem of sweaty feet, you first need to know what causes your sweaty feet. Only in this way can you treat the symptoms, get rid of the habit of sweating feet, and make your feet drier and more comfortable.

Generally, healthy people will increase the secretion of sweat glands when exercising or encountering high temperatures, which will cause the soles of their feet to become hot and sweat. This is a physiological effect to lower the rising body temperature. Therefore, obese people tend to sweat more than thin people. This is not because the former have a larger body surface area, but because obese people have a higher body weight and their body temperature is easily raised. In order to lower the high body temperature, they must regulate it by sweating more.

Excessive sweating of hands and feet, medically known as "localized hyperhidrosis", often occurs in young and middle-aged people with large mood swings. The treatment of "localized sweating syndrome" generally uses vitamin B1, oryzanol, diazepam tablets, etc. If you sweat a lot, you can take some anti-acetylcholine drugs such as atropine or propantheline. However, tranquilizers and anti-acetylcholine drugs have certain side effects and are not suitable for long-term use, so they are often used in conjunction with traditional Chinese medicine treatment in clinical practice.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sweating of the feet is a typical symptom of yin deficiency, with the disease affecting the lungs, kidneys and liver. All three organs are yin deficient, and are mutually causal. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the lungs belong to metal, the kidneys belong to water, and the liver belongs to wood. In the Five Elements, metal gives birth to water, water gives birth to wood, and metal overcomes wood. When the lung yin is deficient, the lung yang becomes impetuous, resulting in hot hands and feet, easy sweating, etc.

The above are all detailed introductions to the reasons for sweating feet. However, the reason why some people have the habit of sweating feet is due to genetics. If one of the parents has the problem of sweating feet, then the children are likely to have the habit of sweating feet as well. Faced with this situation, you have no choice but to maintain good foot hygiene to avoid foot diseases such as athlete's foot.