Gain Back Confidence With an Easy Treatment for Excessive Sweating

Thanks to your hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating), you’re hesitant to shake hands because your palms get sweaty. Or, maybe the issue affects your armpits, and you’re tired of hiding sweat stains.

However, your hyperhidrosis is affecting you; the reality is that it IS impacting your quality of life, and you want solutions. And you’re certainly not alone in this, given that hyperhidrosis occurs in about 3% of the general population.

Well, the team here at Dutch Hollow Medical Day Spa has good news for you — there is a great solution for excessive perspiration, and it’s as easy as a few injections of Botox®. Here’s a look at how we can get your excessive sweating under control and help you head out into the world with more confidence.

Hyperhidrosis — when sweating goes into overdrive

A great place to begin this discussion is with a little background about hyperhidrosis, which we’ve already mentioned, affects millions of Americans.

Under normal circumstances, sweating is your body’s way of regulating its temperature. When it’s hot out, you have a fever, or you overheat during exercise, the 2-4 million eccrine glands (sweat glands) across your skin jump into action, producing sweat that they send to the surface of your skin. As the liquid evaporates from the surface area, it cools your body.

With hyperhidrosis, this thermoregulation process is working overtime, and your sweat glands overproduce — research is ongoing as to exactly why this occurs. 

The excessive sweating can strike anywhere on your body, but tends to have the biggest impact in these areas:

• Under your armpits
• Palms of your hands 
• Soles of your feet
• Around your face
• Under the breasts

Hyperhidrosis affects these areas more than others because sweat glands are more abundant there.

Slowing down the sweat with Botox

Many people know Botox as an anti-aging tool that reduces wrinkles, but its applications are much broader, and it is used to treat everything from migraines to excessive sweating.

And Botox has been at it for a while, given that the FDA approved the treatment for hyperhidrosis more than 20 years ago. 

The active ingredient in Botox is a neurotoxin called onabotulinumtoxinA that temporarily quiets the sweat glands in the treatment areas. 

Botox works extremely well in certain spots. For example, studies show that Botox reduces excessive underarm sweating by 82-87%. The treatment is 80-90% effective in treating sweaty hands.

As for how long you can enjoy these great results, Botox can last 6-12 months or longer. And whenever the effects start to wear off, and your sweat glands start to come back online, you can simply return to us for another round of Botox injections.

So, if you’d like to shake hands with confidence again or not have to bring an extra shirt everywhere you go, we recommend you see for yourself how well Botox can reduce your hyperhidrosis.

To schedule your Botox treatment, simply contact us at our med spa in Godfrey, Illinois, today.