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What causes excessive sweating?
Sweating is a normal physiological response used to cool down the body when we become hot during our daily activities or exercise. Sometimes these sweat glands start to over function without any obvious trigger causing excessive sweating or hyperhidrosis.
Sweating profusely at unwarranted times can significantly deteriorate your quality of life and become a source of anxiety, embarrassment and low self-esteem. Plus, constant wetness on the skin can cause infections and even damage clothing and footwear!
What are the symptoms of hyperhidrosis?
Hyperhidrosis typically presents as excessive and visible sweating to the underarms, face, hands, feet and scalp. Sufferers may need to frequently change their clothes due to excessive moisture and the excessive sweating often interferes with daily activities like holding items, shaking hands, driving or using touchscreens.
What is the difference between primary and secondary hyperhidrosis?
Primary hyperhidrosis
Cause: Primary hyperhidrosis is often inherited with no underlying medical condition, often due to an overactive sympathetic nerve.
Onset: Primary hyperhidrosis usually begins in childhood or adolescence.
Secondary hyperhidrosis
Cause: Secondary hyperhidrosis is often triggered by conditions like diabetes, hormonal changes, thyroid issues, infections or medications. Secondary hyperhidrosis patients are generally treated with the NHS and treatment normally involves treating the underlying health condition as well as using muscle relaxing injections to treat the excessive sweating.
Onset: Secondary hyperhidrosis often develops in adulthood.
At Dr Leah Clinic we offer excessive sweating treatment for primary hyperhidrosis only so before presenting for excess sweating treatment we ask that clients have had causes of their excessive sweating investigated by GP to rule out medical cause (secondary hyperhidrosis).
What is the best treatment for excessive sweating?
Dr Leah Clinics treat hyperhidrosis with muscle relaxing injections. These injections are administered to the affected area to prevent the sweat glands from excessive sweating, providing dramatic results that can last up to 6 months!
Our doctors are experienced in providing muscle relaxing injections for hyperhidrosis, we offer muscle relaxing injections for armpit, forehead, scalp, feet and hand sweating.
The anti sweating treatments take approximately 20 minutes. This is a safe, well-established procedure that can be used for continuous hyperhidrosis treatment*
Please note that our hyperhidrosis treatment (and all other injectable procedures) will only be undertaken after you have attended a face-to-face consultation with one of our doctors. This allows us to carry out a full assessment and discuss a comprehensive list of cautions and contraindications. Please email info@drleah.co.uk for more information.
Why choose Dr Leah Clinics for excessive sweating treatment?
As a medical clinic, we offer muscle relaxing injection treatments performed by experienced cosmetic doctors. We always carry out a full consultation before any treatment and only use the best muscle relaxing injections available (Allergan).
To find out more about our treatment options for hyperhidrosis or to book a consultation with one of our doctors today:
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Commonly asked questions
Excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis) can be stopped by injecting muscle relaxants into the affected area.
Excessive sweating can be due to a variety of reasons and the most common reason is the genetic predisposition. Primary Hyperhidrosis can be stopped easily by administering muscle relaxing injections to the affected area.
Muscle relaxing injections block the signals to the sweat glands to perspire and in turn, stop the excessive sweating
You should notice a dramatic reduction in sweating from the treated area within 10 days- 14 days.
Effects usually last for around 6 months at which point the treatment can be repeated.
Using muscle relaxing injections to treat hyperhidrosis is a safe, well-established procedure with minimal risk. Common side effects of injecting muscle relaxing injections include bruising and swelling at the injection site, but these are temporary and should disappear within 48 hours of the procedure.
Do not undergo this treatment if you are:
- Pregnant
- Breastfeeding
- Allergic to any of the ingredients in muscle relaxing injections
- Living with a neuromuscular disorder (such as myasthenia gravis)
- It is also important to exclude medical causes for excessive sweating with your GP before having treatment
For muscle relaxing injections in the armpit, please arrive to appointment with shaved underarms (both males and females) and wearing a dark coloured loose fitting top. You will need to expose the area for treatment so a vest or sleeveless top is recommended. Deodorant can be worn to the appointment and will be removed by your doctor prior to the muscle relaxing injections.
Avoid wearing tight fitting clothing over the area and avoid white T-shirts or tops immediately after treatment as there may be marks from the treatment that can stain clothing. Avoid consuming alcohol or taking aspirin or nurofen in the 24 hours before or after your treatment. You should avoid applying deodorant on the dayof treatment or after for up to 12 hours. You should avoid taking hot baths or showers for 12 hours after treatment.
