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Here's What You Need To Know If You Have Excessive Facial Sweating

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If sweat beads on your face and streams off in drops, you have a condition called craniofacial hyperhidrosis, which means excessive sweating of the face and head. Facial sweating, particularly to this extreme, can be stressful, embarrassing, and disruptive to your life. Here's what you need to know if you have excessive sweating on your face and/or head. 

Full medical assessment by your primary care provider

Craniofacial hyperhidrosis can be caused by a number of different things, including genetics, hormone imbalance, medication, obesity, and by neurologic and dermatologic syndromes. It's important to consider that when you have an area of your body that sweats profusely, it can be a sign that your body's autonomic system is compromised in some way.

Your autonomic systems are brain and nervous system that control everything your body should be doing to keep your organs functioning and your body alive. Sometimes, conditions that disrupt the autonomic systems are progressive in nature, such as syringomyelia. Today, it could be causing excessive sweating in your face. In the future, however, it could cause your bladder to dysfunction. Or your heart.

Because of this, it is crucial for you to seek a full medical assessment to determine the cause of your excessive facial sweating. When something causes the excessive sweating, it's called secondary hyperhidrosis. If nothing is found to cause the sweating, it's called primary hyperhidrosis. 

Treatment for excessive sweating by specialists 

If your primary care physician finds that a medical condition is causing your hyperhidrosis, you'll need to be treated for that condition first and foremost, especially if the medical condition is serious in nature. Depending on the treatment for your underlying condition, your physician may recommend treating your facial sweating now or waiting until later after your primary medical condition has been treated. 

When you are ready to begin treating your hyperhidrosis, you'll need to incorporate a comprehensive treatment plan into your life, which can include vitamin and mineral supplementation from a nutritionist and Botox injections from a dermatologist. Botox injections into the facial muscles have been found to be effective in reducing perspiration in the immediate area.

As with many medical conditions that are referred to specialists, it is important to utilize your primary care physician as a case manager so he or she is aware of the treatments you undergo through a dermatologist, a nutritionist, and any other medical specialist you are referred to. This can be done by asking the specialists to provide your primary care physician with documentation of each appointment. To learn more, contact a clinic like Jordan Valley Dermatology


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