Hyperhidrosis: A disorder that affects especially the hands, arms, feet and face and that is in minimally invasive surgery solution. Sweating is regulated by the sympathetic nervous system and plays an important role in maintaining body temperature within certain physiological limits. The amount of sweat varies according to internal and external stimuli is normal that it is particularly abundant during exercise or when the ambient temperature is high. When we talk about hyperhidrosis sweat is disproportionate to what is actually needed.
We define localized hyperhidrosis (or focal) when the excessive sweating is limited to one or a few zones of the body, when it comes to generalized hyperhidrosis is widespread throughout the body. Hyperhidrosis especially when it becomes a debilitating disorder affects the hands or arms, but can also give great uneasiness hyperhidrosis of the face, head, trunk, groin, feet.

Generalized Hyperhidrosis Causes:

• Obesity
• Pregnancy / Menopause
• Endocrine disorders
• Hyperthyroidism
• Hyperpituitarism
• Diabetes
• Acromegalia
• Neurological disorders
• Parkinson
• The brain patterns
• Myeloproliferative neoplasms
• Carcinoid, MEN
• Feocromocitoma
• Infections
• Cardiovascular disease
• Respiratory
• Drug treatments
• Alcoholism / Narcotics

Localized Hyperhidrosis:

• Hyperhidrosis primary (or idiopathic)
• Neurological disorders:
• Neuropathy
• Spinal Injury

There is talk of primary or idiopathic hyperhidrosis when you can not identify a cause all'ipersudorazione: it was considered that the disorder is due to an excessive activity (called overtone) of the sympathetic nervous system. Has an incidence between 0.5 and 3% depending on ethnicity. Although some patients report suffering from childhood, excessive sweating usually begins at an early age and persists in adults with a tendency to mitigation of symptoms in old age. Hyperhidrosis is slightly more common in females. A genetic predisposition is likely, since in 40-50% of patients may experience a family history of hyperhidrosis.

Secondary hyperhidrosis is instead a consequence of other diseases, such as obesity or menopause, or occurs as a result of endocrine diseases, metabolic, neurological, cancer, cardio, sometimes due to severe infection or a side effect of certain drugs. It should be emphasized that in these cases, the sweating is usually spread throughout the body in addition there are also signs and symptoms of the underlying disease.

It has long been erroneously considered that anxiety was the cause of hyperhidrosis as it is the opposite: hyperhidrosis creates anxiety (and it will further worsen the symptoms). Primary hyperhidrosis localized (or focal) becomes a problem since adolescence, when the presence of moisture causes the first embarrassment in social life. The locations of hyperhidrosis that have the greatest impact on the emotional level are the palms of the hands (often in association with the soles of the feet), the arms and face.

A characteristic clinical sign of hyperhidrosis handheld is the simultaneous presence of perspiration and vasoconstriction, which results in the typical cold, sweaty hands, so annoying the handshake. In some patients, the perspiration is reduced during the winter, however, re-proposing in stress situations , and worsens during the summer.

The amount of sweat can vary greatly: the palm of your hand slightly damp in some patients come to drip, so that strIn Gere hands with someone can become an insurmountable obstacle, even talk on the phone or write to your computer can become annoying.

The sweaty armpits can be so abundant as to force them to change their clothes several times a day and wear only white clothes to mask the noise or blacks, who suffer from hyperhidrosis of the head or face, know that you can fill up with sweat dripping abnormally without a precise cause, even while driving, watching TV or while you are eating.

Sympthoms : Possible consequences hyperhidrosis

• Avoid the handshake whenever possible
• Embarrassment associated with wet clothes or wet palms
• Need a change of clothes 2 or more times a day
• Difficulty in social relationships and personal
• Frustration in daily life activities
• Changes in the types of leisure activities usual
• Lack of confidence with other people
• Desert social gatherings with friends and family
• Reduction self
• Depression
• Bacterial or fungal skin maceration

Some patients change their habits to avoid embarrassing situations, coming out only to go in restaurants or places with air conditioning. Meetings with family and friends, a date or a marriage, constitute a significant source of discomfort for some patients become occasions from deserting. At Work with colleagues can be difficult, meetings or workshops are stressful enough to influence decisions professional. In juvenile relationships with peers and with the other sex suffer from the psychological repercussions caused embarrassment caused by excessive sweating. Insecurity increases in inverse proportion to self-esteem.