| Excessive sweating is the body's response to heat, | | | | arm, shake hands or mingle without fear of someone |
| strenuous exercise or emotional stress. Sweating is | | | | else rejecting you. Sweating is a response to |
| worry enough. This is one question that frequently | | | | temperature control by the body and it comes under |
| comes to mind. Sweating is not a direct measure of | | | | both nervous and hormonal control as well. Often |
| how hard you are working. Just because you are | | | | neurologists and endocrinologist deal with cases just a |
| sweating more doesn't mean you are working harder. | | | | this one. |
| It is the body's way of cooling itself. In the case of | | | | Sweating is one mechanism the body uses. It relies |
| palmar hyperhidrosis, the sweating of the hands is | | | | on evaportation for this to be effective. Sweating is |
| excessive. Sweating is a tiring activity in itself and this | | | | a normal physiological response. Hyperhidrosis is |
| can be exacerbated by exercise. Even sleeping is | | | | excessive sweating. Sweating is a natural body |
| disrupted in hot humid weather. Sweating is an | | | | function needed for the regulation of |
| automatic body response to changes in the | | | | body-temperature. There are five million sweat glands |
| environment (temperature), and thus is controlled by | | | | throughout the body. |
| the autonomic nervous system. This is the same part | | | | It is controlled by branches of the sympathetic chain |
| of the brain which controls whether you are asleep | | | | that is located within the chest cavity. Hyperhydrosis |
| or awake, how you breathe, heart rate changes in | | | | is a medical condition that causes perspiration far |
| response to the environment, blood pressure, etc. | | | | greater than the physiological needs of the body. |
| This is NOT an indication of physical conditioning. | | | | This condition is particularly associated with Hodgkin's |
| Sweating is your body's natural way of cooling itself | | | | disease and several other types of malignant disease, |
| down, but it can get out of control sometimes. If | | | | as well as with any type of widely disseminated |
| you feel your sweating is out of control, try some of | | | | malignancy and/or liver metastases. |
| the above tips so that you can once more raise your | | | | |