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Provides resources on excessive sweating, also known as hyperhidrosis or diaphoresis, including signs and symptoms, causes, prevention and treatment.
Hyperhidrosis is a disorder that defines individuals who sweat more than the body would normally need to maintain optimal temperature. Hyperhidrosis affects work productivity, confidence, social comfort, emotional well being and wardrobe choices. It has also been shown that only 38% of hyperhidrosis sufferers talk to a health care professional about their condition. People rarely seek help because many are unaware that excessive sweating is a treatable medical disorder.
Source: Canadian Dermatology Association
In people with hyperhidrosis, the sympathetic nervous system is literally a sweatshop on overtime, producing far more perspiration than is required. It affects people of all ages and from all racial groups and economic backgrounds yet the cause is unknown.
Source: HealthyOntario.com
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