If you sweat more than the average person, you are not alone!

We can help you understand and solve your sweating problem and more importantly stop you sweating in 2 weeks to save those embarrassing situations...

The reason behind why we sweat is due to over activity in the symphethetic nervous system. In 24 hours the average man sweats between 1 - 1.5 litres of liquid though our sweat glands are more than capable of producing 12 litres of sweat in 1 day! In comparison an average person exercising for 1 hour can lose up to 3 litres of liquid sweat.

If you consider that we have between 3-4 million sweat glands throughout their bodies then the above figures can become believable. However, you do not have to be doing exercise to produce sweat. Even sitting down in a cool, relaxed environment you produce half a litre of sweat a day as it is an ongoing process.

For the record - males are sweatier than females!

Why do we have sweat?

Sweat helps to keep our skin moist and also helps with our body temperature, we rely on the evaporation and producing sweat to help protect our bodies against hot temperatures or being in hot climates.

We all have 2 types of sweat glands on our bodies. The first being called apocrine glands these are mainly what we would know as our scent glands. Found in the armpits and around the anus area. The sweat that is produced has a particular odour in each person; this unfortunately sends messages to other people. We have around 1 million of these glands.

The second gland we all have is the Eccrine glands; these produce sweat when we are in hot climates or when we become home naturally. This helps to cool our bodies down, when reaching above a certain temperature. Did you know we have around 3 million of these glands.

If you find you are sweating a lot more than what you normally would you is now probably thinking that you must have a lot more sweat glands but this could be a number of things one of the main common reasons is that you probably have a lot of activity in the tiny nerves that control them.

Do you have a tendency to sweat more in social situations?

If this is the case for you and you find chatting to your boss about something very important for example or feeling under pressure, then this is not a physical problem but more of a psychological one. If you sweat excessively at normal times then you can get help.

When we sense there is a problem or fear we begin to panic and get hot which releases sweat as we perspire.

Do you get woken up at night from what you would call a 'hot flush'?

Sweating at night is normal, if it is a hot summers evening it is to be expected. But if it’s the middle of winter then it is not supposed to happen, consult your GP just to have a general check up to be sure.

Sweating in different areas

All of us suffer from sweating at some point in our lives and not all in the same areas. Here you will find a list and explanations for the more common areas we all sweat on our bodies.

Sweaty Hands

Getting sweaty hands usually begins in early childhood and can get worse going into teenage years and also when you are approaching adult hood.

Research has shown that sweaty hand sufferers will find it also runs in there family as 40% of patients that have sweaty palms have discovered it is genetic.

There isn't a cure for sweaty palms unfortunately but a few tips on preventing/slowing down the process of sweaty hands.

Sweaty Feet

People who are suffering from sweaty hands will more than likely be suffering from sweaty feet too. There are some benefits to having sweaty feet instead of sweaty hands being that you would not notice being in social situations of just talking or attending meetings. But when it comes to maybe taking your shoes off round a friends or colleagues house this is where it might notice due to an unwanted odour being produced.

Sweaty feet can cause a number of different problems such as ruining shoes not being able to wear open toe shoes. You may also find you suffer quite a lot to fungal infections. As many of our shows are closed without air holes for our feet to breathe through the day/evening there is no way of the odour escaping. Over a very short period of time the smell can get bad so much so that it can become very uncontrollable.

With your feet sweating and being in closed shoes they also warm so the sweat is warm too this is not good as it can encourage the growth of fungi which will then cause you serious problems and even in some cases of getting athletes foot. This will add to the smell as well as suffering from athlete’s foot.

First things first get rid of all those nylon socks and synthetic socks. Buy yourself some new ones with around 60% - 70% wool combined with 30% - 40% man made fibre. Avoid purchasing socks which are 100% cotton as these will not absorb sweat as well. Avoid buying 100% wool as these will make your feet hotter and clammy

Make sure you get the right size socks as tightness will not do you any favours. Most importantly wear fresh clean socks every day.

Wearing your shows everyday can make any persons feet sweaty just because they get hot and clammy. So if you are to buy washable insoles wash them every day this will help keep the freshness ion the sole.

The majority of leather shoes often have plastic lining in them you do not want plastic lining in your shoe. So aim to get leather lining in your shoes or as we mentioned before buy some washable insoles.

Trainers may be very comfortable for your feet but make ideal conditions for that warm smelly odour. So try and just wear them for shorter periods of time.

Sweaty underarm

Excessive sweating under the armpits is probably the most annoying and embarrassing problem area. But thankful it can be controlled and even sometimes cured completely. There are natural remedies and treatments, also things you can try at home. it may even be a very simple solution of using a different or slightly stronger anti-perspirant. However if these remedies do not seem to work for you it is best for you to go and see your GP to give you advice on the next step you should take.

Woman or men suffering from sweaty armpits could help by removing the hair under there! This is a perfect place for the sweat and odour to get trapped. Removing hair will help give your armpits more room for the air to circulate.

Try not to wear tight clothing this does not help the airflow under your armpit either or circulation so always go for a slightly loose fitting under those arms.

Also dark clothes how much the ladies love them they make us look slimmer but try to avid wearing dark materials especially in the summer. Dark clothes attract the heat causing you to sweat more. Just before you go to bed wash and dry your armpits make sure you dry them thoroughly afterwards.

Always wear deodorant. Before trying any treatments or remedies at home, try changing the brand of deodorant that you use. If your using a roll on try and aerosol and vice versa.

Help!

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