Usually we sweat in such cases:
- when it's hot;
- at physical exertion, when we are engaged in sports or any physical work;
- if we wear clothes made of non-natural materials;
- when sick;
- when we eat spicy or too hot food;
- when we are nervous or worried;
- in stressful situations;
- when we are in great fear or anger.
There are a number of other reasons. But sometimes people have excessive sweating.
Causes of excessive sweating
In order to get rid of an unpleasant phenomenon, you should know the cause of its occurrence. Excessive sweating can indicate the presence of any disease. In medicine it is called hyperhidrosis. A normal person, as a rule, a day can emit 600-900 ml (about 3 cups) of sweat. And with excessive sweating - up to several liters!
Let's consider, in what cases there is a plentiful diaphoresis:
- disorders of the endocrine system, for example, diabetes mellitus;
- tuberculosis;
- hormonal disorders - pregnancy, menopause in women;
- emotional instability, excessive excitability;
- obesity;
- infectious diseases;
- poisoning;
- disorders in the thyroid gland;
- dysbacteriosis of the intestine after taking an antibiotic;
- heredity;
- an individual characteristic of the organism;
- vegetovascular dystonia;
- disrupting the kidneys.
Some sweat only some parts of the body:
- palms;
- feet;
- face;
- armpit.
And some sweat completely. In this case, both of them experience discomfort, because sweat has an unpleasant smell, and from this they worry and experience even more.
How to deal with excessive sweating?
Here's what you can do:
- If the cause of hyperhidrosis is any disease, you need to cure it, and sweating will disappear as a consequence.
- If the reason for the individual characteristics of the body - you can try to be treated folk remedies with the help of infusions, lotions, compresses.
- Wear natural clothes and shoes.
- Eliminate spicy and too hot food.
- Take a contrast shower.
- Use antiperspirants , powders (for example, from excessive sweating of feet - Odaban).