Hand hyperhidrosis

Introduction to hand sweat Hand sweating is a fairly common type of functional local abnormal hyperhidrosis. Because of the specificity of race, young people who grow in subtropical areas are particularly vulnerable to this problem. The secretion of sweat glands is controlled by sympathetic nerves, and hand sweating is caused by excessive sympathetic nervousness due to unexplained causes, such as nervousness, excitement, stress or high temperature in summer, resulting in an abnormal increase in palm perspiration. Hand sweating can occur regardless of gender, and is quite common among young people in the Eastern ethnic group, with a family of up to 12%. I have seen parents with hyperhidrosis, and 4 children have varying degrees of sweating. Many palm-sweat patients have a family history, but they are not necessarily passed on to the next generation. basic knowledge The proportion of sickness: 0.0023% Susceptible people: no special people Mode of infection: non-infectious Complications: hyperhidrosis

Cause of hand sweating

Body factor (35%)

Sweating hands are different from sweating in other parts of the body. Sweating palms are related to physical fitness, endocrinology, etc. A healthy person, even if the body is sweating, the palm should be dry. The person who often sweats often has no sweat on his body, but his palm is full of cold sweat and feels cold. Some people sweat more and more in the winter. Sweating palms is a manifestation of debilitating physique. Eat more warm food to regulate the body, but also strengthen exercise, the purpose is to accelerate blood circulation and promote metabolism, it should have a good effect.

Disease factor (25%)

Hand sweating is due to the abnormal function of the sweat gland in the hand, and there are many reasons for the hand sweat. The first reason is mainly some systemic diseases, such as thyroid function resistance, diabetes and some obesity. In addition, some diseases of the central system can also cause so many sweats in the hands. Another major reason is that the sympathetic nerves that control the sweat can also cause an increase in hand sweat.

Hand sweat prevention

1. Instruct children to eat high-protein, high-calorie, high-vitamin diets such as meat, eggs, milk, fresh fruits and vegetables.

2. Intravenous infusion if necessary, supplement energy, vitamins, antibiotics and hemostatic drugs.

3, the diet to add more calcium-containing foods, such as shrimp skin, kelp, sesame sauce, etc., while paying attention to the right amount of exercise and vitamin D supplement.

4, the child on the day after fasting, water, no bloating, nausea and vomiting symptoms can be eaten the next day after surgery, the general advanced liquid, semi-liquid diet, and gradually transition to a normal diet.

5, due to longer bed rest after surgery, should pay attention to eating fiber-rich vegetables, bananas, etc., to prevent constipation.

6. Avoid vigorous physical activity within one year after surgery.

Hand sweating complications Complications hyperhidrosis

1. Compensatory sweating: The hand sweat is gone, but it flows out of other parts of the body.

2. Face sweating is blocked (Hornor's Syndrome).

Hand sweat symptoms common symptoms, hands and feet, sweaty palms, sweaty armpits, sweating

Hyperhidrosis is not a disease, but the sympathetic nerves are excessively hyperactive, but often the symptoms cause learning, work or social problems, and medical treatment. People with excessive sweating tend to be wet and answer most of the time, and long-term wet hands often cause easy peeling and are unsightly. Young people in school age often wet the exam paper due to excessive sweat, which often affects the exam. It is often wet if the test paper is not written. Teenagers don't dare to hold hands with people, and even shaking hands is a problem. In severe cases, the symptoms of eczema dermatitis may even appear in the palm of your hand. Adulthood also causes inconvenience in their work and social activities. Patients with hyperhidrosis often have sweating from the hands and feet, and the sweat from the patients usually has no odor, which is different from those with fox odor. The body odor of the body odor (the sweaty odor of the armpits) is related to the genetic physique, mainly the development of the axillary sebaceous glands, the chance of occurrence is higher than that of the hand sweat, and the troubles are more common. Like clothes, there are always yellow stains that can't be washed, and they are less afraid to wear sleeveless tops. The most important thing is that when they are close to people, they have more inexplicable psychological burdens and fears.

Patients with hyperhidrosis and facial flushing are the most common. Patients with hyperhidrosis are hot and cold in the summer, and the palms, soles and underarms are always sweaty, damp and cold, and sometimes sweaty in drops of beads. It is more serious when the mood is tense. I often damp the paper when writing, dripping the keyboard when typing, and even dare not shake hands with others. Patients with "head sweat" and "face flush" are in a crowded situation, when meeting for a report, when they meet strangers, when they meet acquaintance leaders, when they are nervous, when they are exercising, when they meet the opposite sex, When talking about sensitive topics, sometimes Mo Ming will also be full of sweat and full of redness.

Although these are not serious diseases, hyperhidrosis and/or blushing make the patient feel helpless, anxious or panic every day, which brings great inconvenience to the patient's work, social and life, and seriously affects the patient's self-confidence. . The patient has great psychological pain and is difficult for ordinary people to understand.

Hand sweat test

1. The routine examination of blood is to clarify whether there is any infection inside the body.

2, chest X-ray, see no tuberculosis, because tuberculosis is also the cause of increased hand sweat.

3, T3, T4, this is an indicator that the thyroid function is not normal.

4, blood sugar, see if there is diabetes.

Diagnosis and identification of hand sweat

Clinically, the symptoms of hand sweat can be graded. For example, the degree of hand sweating can be divided into three levels from light to heavy: mild palm wetness; moderate handkerchief when sweating in palm; severely dripping when palm is sweating Beaded. If it meets most of the following characteristics: adolescent onset, family history, hyperhidrosis is bilateral symmetry, predisposing factors are emotion, exercise, high temperature, etc.; do not sweat during sleep, mostly considered hyperhidrosis.

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