Excess sweating or Hyperhydrosis treatments
Diseases, Conditions and Medication that Can Cause Excessive Sweating and body odour.
A number of diseases and medical conditions or treatments can cause excessive sweating. Some of the following conditions are common and their names may be easily recognized while others are more rare or obscure. This list is provided is a guide only and is not exhaustive. Everyone varies in their response to diseases and medication so only a small percentage will experience this phenomenon.
If you are troubled by excessive sweating or body odour then Q aesthetics can review your medical history, perform tests if necessary and give advice or treatment to help alleviate your sweating. These include advice on antiperspirants and Botox®. Treatment with Botox can last upto 9 months and takes about 30 minutes to perform after a consultation with a Doctor.
Common causes of Hyperhydrosis:
- Acute Febrile Illness (e.g. infection)
- Alcoholism
- Carcinoid syndrome
- Cardiac shock
- Chédiak-Higashi syndrome
- Chronic arsenic intoxication
- Chronic infection (e.g: tuberculosis, malaria, brucellosis)
- Debility
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Drug addiction (e.g. cocaine, amphetamines)
- Erythrocyanosis Essential hyperhidrosis
- Exercise
- Familial dysautonomia
- Gout
- Heart Failure
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hyperpituitarism
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypothalamic mass (e.g .: tumor, abscess)
- Idiopathic unilateral circumscribed hyperhidrosis
- Lymphoma
- Menopause
- Obesity
- Parkinson’s disease
- Pheochromocytoma
- Phenylketonuria
- Porphyria
- Post-enchepahlitis
- Pregnancy
- Pressure and postural hyperhidrosis
- Raynaud’s phenomenon or disease
- Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Rickets
- Stroke
- Symmetric lividity of the palms and soles
- Vitiligo