Hyperhidrosis at The Skin Centre.

The first treatment is a  20% topical Aluminium hexahydrate.

Secondly Iontophoresis is helpful in those patients prepared to put the effort into regular sessions with the Iontophoresis units on the affected areas.
A number of options exist for this troublesome problem. For the axilla, surgery is an option either to the local sweat glands or to the nerves that supply them.

For people who do not want surgery and have not found topical applications helpful injections of bacterial toxin could be an option. Many find that only one lot of injections into the skin of the axilla per year is necessary to keep things under control as during winter covering clothing is worn.

Surgery with a selective laparoscopic sympathectomy is the last option particularly for the hands. This procedure involves deflating a lung and is therefore not a minor procedure. Unfortunately the risk for random compensatory  regions of hyperhidrosis on the trunk after such a procedure is in the order of 20%.

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