What are the Medical Causes of Excessive Sweating?
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Medical Causes of Excessive Sweating
Excessive sweating is a medical condition formally known as Hyperhidrosis. Approximtely 2-3% of the entire worldwide populaion has to deal with this condition.
If you suffer from excessive sweating, it impacts your social, emotional and physical wellbeing, it restricts your choices and abilities to participate in certain activities. It doesn't have to be like this anymore. There is help!
Learning about the medical causes of excessive sweating will help you understand what you can do to permanently eliminate this this distressing condition.
Medical Causes of Excessive Sweating - Table of Contents
Why Do We Sweat and What is Considered Excessive Sweating?

A large percentage of a persons T-cells of immunity are found in the skin - and also in the lungs and kidneys. Therefore skin is a major organ of elimination that produces moisture to get rid of toxins and waste products from the body. Sweating is also an important function that helps us stay cool.
Excessive sweating is not normal. It can be of different degees of severity and can happen even when you are not exercising, anxious or hot. Anyone who sweats more than is needed to regulate body temperature is considered sweating excessively. Excessive sweating can be either generalised - when your entire body is affected - or focal - occuring in certain areas of the body such as feet, hands, underarms or face.
The Medical Causes of Excessive Sweating Due to Primary Hyperhidrosis
Primary Hyperhidrosis is attributed to genetic factors. Excessive sweating due to Primary Hyperhidrosis usually starts developing in childhood or in adolescence.

Primary Hyperhidrosis sufferers are usually otherwise fit and healthy. This type of excessive sweating is caused by the overactivity of the Sympathetic Nervous System that is located in the spine and its major functions include the regulation of sweating. Whenever it senses any rise in body temperature, it will send a signal to the millions of sweat glands through the nerve pathways of the body to initiate sweat production.
In Primary Hyperhidrosis the nerve pathways are over-stimulated, resulting in different degrees of heavy perspiration. Heavy perspiration in Primary Hyperhidrosis can occur at any time for no apparent reason, however the suggested trigger factors include eating spicy foods and excessive alcohol or caffeine consumption.
Primary Hyperhidrosis is a treatable condition. To find out how you can permanently eliminate Primary Hyperhidrosis click here.
The Medical Causes of Secondary Hyperhidrosis
Secondary Hyperhidrosis can start at any point in life and excessive sweating is due to an underlying medical disorder.
The following conditions may contribute to Secondary Hyperhidrosis:
- Low Blood Sugar Levels/Diabetes
- Overactive Thyroid Gland
- Severe Psychiatric Disorders such as major depression or severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
- Menopause
- Any Type of Cancer
- The Use of Certain Medications
- Fever
- Infection
Excessive sweating has certain levels of disabling effects on professional, academic and social life and causes daily embarrassment for a person. If it Impacts your life, you worry about what you wear in public because of the visiblity of it on your clothing or the unpleasant odor it may cause, it can all change!

This book was written by someone who has suffered like you for years from excessive sweating. His name is Mike Ramsey and on his website you will read about his own battle with excessive sweating and how he tried many different products and methods only to be disappointed with the results.
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I highly recommend this book to anyone that suffers from excessive sweating!
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