Botox Injections for Severe Sweating (Hyperhidrosis)

• Excessive Perspiration Interfering with Your Normal lifestyle & Routine tasks?
• Is serious underarm sweating interfering with certain everyday activities?
• Are you afraid to raise your hands in regular circumstances because of underarm perspiration spots?
• Do you hesitate to purchase brand new clothing because they might be ruined by underarm sweat (axillary hyperhidrosis)?
• Do you worry someone will notice your perspiration spots?
• Does your pen / racket (tennis, badminton, squash, people) / bat slip out of your palms frequently (palmar hyperhidrosis)?
• Do your slippers fall out of your legs, whenever you walk (Plantar hyperhiodrosis)?
• Do your socks and legs stink?
• Do you look stressed, since your forehead & face is forever sweaty (Facial Hyperhidrosis)?

Ask your plastic doctor if BOTOX therapy is right for you. When severe sweating gets in the means of particular day-to-day tasks and antiperspirants haven’t worked, you may possibly be a prospect for BOTOX Injections therapy.

Understanding what Sweating is:

Perspiration is essential for humans to survive and acts as the body’s coolant, protecting it from overheating.

There are two to four million perspiration glands distributed all over our systems. The vast majority of them are “eccrine” perspiration glands, which are discovered in large number on the soles of the legs, the palms, the forehead and cheeks, & in the armpits.

Eccrine glands secrete an odorless, clear fluid that assists the body to control its heat by advertising temperature loss through evaporation. In basic, the kind of perspiration included in hyperhidrosis is eccrine perspiration.

The other kind of perspiration gland is known as an “apocrine” gland. Apocrine glands are discovered in the armpits and genital area. They create a dense fluid. Whenever this fluid comes in contact with germs on the skin’s area, it creates a characteristic potent “body odour”.

In individuals who really sweat a lot (hyperhidrosis), the sweat glands (eccrine glands in specific) overreact to stimuli and are simply generally overactive, producing more sweat than is needed. It’s often said that individuals with hyperhidrosis have perspiration glands that are trapped in the “on” position.

Varieties of Hyperhidrosis:

Primary focal hyperhidrosis relates to excessive sweating that’s not triggered by another health condition, nor is it an after-effect of medicines. The excessive sweating is the medical condition. This type of perspiring happens on particular areas of the body (explained as focal areas) and is generally fairly “symmetric” meaning that both the left and right edges of the body are impacted likewise. The absolute most typical focal areas are the fingers, legs, underarms, and mind or face.

The other primary kind of hyperhidrosis is called to as secondary generalized hyperhidrosis. This kind of excessive sweating is triggered by another health condition or is a side-effect of a medicine. That’s why it’s known as second – it’s second to something else. Unlike with primary focal hyperhidrosis, individuals with secondary hyperhidrosis experience perspiring on bigger or other areas of the human body (explained as general areas). Another key distinction between the two kinds of hyperhidrosis is that individuals with secondary generalized hyperhidrosis may usually experience their sweating symptoms while resting.

Remedies for primary focal hyperhidrosis:

1) Due to negative effects, oral medicines are perhaps not generally suggested as a long-term solution but they definitely have their destination whenever dealing with excessive sweating on big areas of the human body, or when numerous areas are impacted.

2) Local surgeries (meaning surgery localized to the location being treated), such as liposuction, for dealing with excessive underarm sweating are becoming much more commonplace and the outcomes are enhancing, although maybe not perfect–yet.

3)  Newer remedies, like Botox injections, have actually begun offering relief to those who never ever thought they’d discover it.

Botox Injections Treatment for Hyperhidrosis (Excessive Sweating):

BOTOX (Botulinum neurotoxin) therapy assists controlling the signs of serious local sweating (in palms, legs, underarms, face, etc), whenever topical anti-perspirants do not work well, by temporarily blocking the chemical indicators from the nerves that stimulate the perspiration glands. When the perspiration glands don’t receive chemical indicators, the serious sweating stops. BOTOX injections are anticipated to temporarily stop the manufacturing of excessive perspiration in the treated areas just. Perspiration goes on to be produced somewhere else.

Where does the perspiration go? Your perspiration doesn’t go anywhere or get reinforced up because the sweat simply is perhaps not created in the areas treated with BOTOX. Keep in mind, the rest of your body is free to create moisture ordinarily.

Procedure for Botox Injections for Serious Sweating:

During the treatment at the doctor’s workplace, a tiny quantity of BOTOX is inserted into the affected local region (underarm area, palms, arms, legs, soles, face, etc) through a really fine needle. To delineate the perspiration glands better prior to the injections, a local starch-iodine test may be done.

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In a quick visit with your Facial plastic surgeon, about 15 injections are made to the underarm area. The actual procedure takes about 10 to 15 minutes. You should observe a significant decrease in underarm sweating within 4 months of your first therapy and impacts (reduced sweating) last up to 201 days or 6.7 months. If you don’t see a significant decrease in sweating, you should contact your physician and request a follow-up assessment. Hence, don’t perspire, perspiration is the past! 🙂

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