Encounter

           

                              Is it hot in here or is it just me?


                       Another encounter I had with the show The Doctors, involved a lady who was would always sweat. She would not even exercise but she would start sweating excessively. When she was on the show, she took a shower before coming and she was already sweating. The doctors on the show referred her to a specialist who thought it was best to inject her sweat glands under her armpits with a form of botox. This enabled her to not sweat as frequently. She would have to get the injections every six months but she was okay with that. I wanted to do more research on this and it led me to a condition called Hyperhidrosis. This is when your body is excessively using its cooling mechanism and you sweat without even doing any work. The cause of this can almost be anything. It can be due to the type of medications you take or if you have a certain type of syndrome. It can also be caused due to infections. It looks like the only way to treat this is based on the symptoms of sweating. Unless they find the actual cause of the sweating, you will be treated for just the sweating part of it.

 Works Cited:

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007259.htm