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What is Hyperhidrosis?
‘Hyperhidrosis is excess sweating. This can happen even at rest or when the temperature is cold. It is debilitating for patients and can reduce a person’s quality of life and cause a lot of social anxiety. For some, it's isolated areas such as affecting the face, axillary area, hand and feet. Some of the whole body. It can be caused by several reasons such as overactive sweat glands can be a genetic cause and usually start as a teenager.
Other secondary causes can be due to underlying medical conditions such as overactive thyroid or diabetes.
Certain triggers are emotions like stress and anxiety, warm temperature, exercise and certain foods like alcohol or spicy food.’