Do you usually sweat your hands to the point of getting wet when you're busy? Sometimes I am too nervous or excited, and the soles of my feet and armpits are sweating profusely. If you have these symptoms, you may have to pay attention to whether you have the legendary hand sweating and hyperhidrosis!
1. What is hand sweating (hyperhidrosis) - the palms, soles and armpits are more likely to sweat on hot days, tense and excited
Hand sweating is a disease caused by excessive secretion of sweat glands due to excessive excitement of the sympathetic nervous system, and 13% of patients have a genetic predisposition. Under normal circumstances, the sympathetic nerve regulates the body temperature of the human body by controlling sweating and heat dissipation, but the sweating of patients with hand sweating completely loses its normal control, which leads to patients sweating on their hands for many years and frequently encountering embarrassment.
Sweating on the hands is different from sweating on other parts of the body. The rest of the body sweats because of heat, and the hotter the sweat, the more sweat there is. People who are in good health, even if they are sweating profusely, should have dry palms. People who often sweat their hands are often not sweating on their bodies, but their palms are full of cold sweat, feeling cold, and some people sweat more and more in winter.
Grading criteria for hand sweating: mild (wet when the palm sweats), moderate (1 handkerchief is wet when the palm sweats), severe (bead-like when the palm sweats).
2. Causes of hand sweating - sympathetic hyperactivity
Hand sweating is caused by sympathetic hyperactivity, mainly due to local sweat gland secretion hypersecretion, the palm involuntarily secretes a large amount of sweat, as described above sweating sites are most common in the palms, soles of the feet and armpits.
3. Hand sweat disorder - affecting quality of life, mood and social interaction activities
Hand sweating severely affects the patient's quality of life, mood, and social interactions. The disease can occur from an early age (about 6 years of age) and become more pronounced in puberty. Young people's emotions are less easy to control, easy to be nervous, uneasy, shy, afraid, etc., so that sweating is more severe, the more anxious the mood, the more sweating, creating a vicious circle. This may cause patients to be withdrawn, introverted, not good at interacting with others, lack of confidence in social situations, and even inferiority, which will also affect learning and job search. Especially shy otaku and sister, as soon as others get close to a hand, the hand is wet immediately, can it not be embarrassed?
4. Pay attention to the early treatment of hand sweating
According to Huang Dongliang, director of the hand sweat disease special outpatient clinic of Taikang Xianlin Drum Tower Hospital affiliated to Nanjing University School of Medicine, in recent years, with the development of social economy and people's pursuit of lifestyle, the disease has become more and more concerned. However, from a nationwide perspective, the current awareness rate and consultation rate of hand sweat disorder are still at a low level. Further awareness and treatment of the disease is therefore very useful and necessary.
Director Huang introduced that hand sweating disease generally occurs at a very young age, and with age, it will become worse and worse, not only will the palms of the hands sweat, but also the armpits, the bottom of the feet have a lot of sweat outflow, bringing a lot of trouble to people's normal life. Than adolescents in the school age stage will affect their test scores because of hand sweat, and may also affect the physical and mental health development of children, resulting in psychological diseases such as inferiority complex, and may not dare to shake hands with people after they are older.
At present, thoracoscopic minimally invasive thoracic sympathetic surgery is a relatively ideal and safe surgical method for the treatment of hand sweating so far! When treating hand sweat, it can effectively solve the problem of hand sweating.