Keep Yourself Cool to Combat Excess Sweating

Do you have a problem with excess sweating? Some people perspire more than others and this is quite bothersome to them. There are a good number of reasons for excess sweating, among them medical conditions like obesity, a fast metabolism rate, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases such as high blood pressure, digestive and glandular problems or hormonal imbalances. These conditions should be addressed by a doctor for proper management and treatment.

But aside from that, people who perspire a lot have to deal with keeping themselves cool so that they can avoid sweating too much. If your excess sweating is due to a health problem, you may need to overcompensate by reducing the environment’s temperature. Otherwise, here are some pointers for you to take up to keep your body cool.

First, it is not only the room temperature that may cause excess sweating. Poor air circulation inside the room can make the environment stifling and adds to the warm temperature, thereby causing excess sweating. Cool air has more motility than warm air, so moving the air around helps in cooling the room. To do this, install a fan on your desk in the office and ceiling fans in your home. Open windows if the weather permits.

These tips may sound mundane but they do work well to keep your body cool enough so you don’t have to suffer from excess sweating.

What you drink plays a big part in bringing about excess sweating. Haven’t you noticed that when you drink hot coffee and other warm beverages, you perspire a lot? This is so simplistic that it doesn’t even need an explanation. Warm drinks when taken into the body will warm you up and to cool down, you perspire. If giving up hot coffee is not an option, you can offset its effect by drinking lots of water, preferably cold. You can still have your hot drinks, be they coffee, tea or chocolate; just limit the quantity you take in every day so that you maintain normal body temperature and you won’t suffer from excess sweating.

Heat can come from light and this can be a source of excess sweating. Even if you work in an office and are not exposed to direct sunlight, the light that comes in through the windows or glass panes can bring in heat and make the atmosphere warm. To resolve this, all you have to do is to partially close the blinds to filter the sunlight coming in and keep the room slightly shaded. You can also apply tinted film to the glass to block direct sunlight and lessen the glare. Purchasing the film is a small price to pay for the reducing excess sweating.

Give serious consideration to the pointers you have just learned about keeping your body cool. Putting into practice as many of them as possible will keep your body temperature down so you feel cool. Most of all, your problem of excess sweating will be minimized or totally eliminated.

Baking Soda - a Cheap Cure for Excessive Sweating

Your body’s sweat is an acid and baking soda is an alkaline. Gas is formed when the two combine, causing the instant evaporation of the sweat.

The sweat isn't block, or trapped inside your skin, rather this treatment conditions your skin to quickly dry up as soon as the sweating begins.

The residue of the baking soda on the skin conditions the dryness and for the best results, go through this process on several days in succession.

Baking Soda for Hand Sweating

1. You’ll want to fill up a big bowl or two separate aluminum pie pans with warm/hot water and equal parts baking soda making a very cloudy solution. The baking soda will tend to settle out at the bottom, so be sure to mix it up very thoroughly.

2. It's important that the water is warm or hot so your pores really open up when you soak your hands for 25 minutes in the solution. The idea is for the baking soda to penetrate your skin. During that time, intermittenly grab the clumps of baking soda at the bottom of the pan or bowl and rub your hands together to really saturate them in the solution.

3. At the end of the 25 minute session, your hands will be a little wrinkled - this is totally normal. Just dry them off with a towel, don't wash them. You want to retain the residue of baking soda on your skin. Some people say they have a light powerdy look to the skin after drying them off. The more residue of the solution, the better your results will be.

Your hands will definitely feel dry the first 30 minutes after treatment and results should last at least a couple of hours following. If you use this remedy consecutively for 5 days straight, the results can last up to 5 or 6 hours on end.

Easy Ways to Deal with Sweaty Palms

Here's a few tips for dealing with sweaty palms:

Deep breathing

Try doing deep breathing if you feel anxious or notice your hands starting to sweat. Take breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth to relax yourself.

Wipe your hands often on a discrete small cloth

Whenever the sweating begins you may use your secret cloth to absorb the sweat keeping your hands as dry as possible.

Use Talcum or Cornstarch Powder

A simple cure for sweaty palms that works well for some people is to use powder or cornstarch to soak up the excessive perspiration that ends up on their hands. Be sure to apply the powder over your entire hand and between the fingers. For best results, take a small container of power out with you and keep reapplying it to prevent breakthrough sweating. Give it a try for around a week and see if it helps.

Try Aluminum Chlorohydrate-based Antiperspirants

As well as working well for underarm sweating, antiperspirants can also work for excessively sweaty palms. The key is to use an aluminum chlorohydrate-based antiperspirant, not a deodorant. If you have a severe case antiperspirant may not be enough to control the symptoms, but this treatment is worth trying.

Is it a Sign of Something More Serious?

Certain medical problems, such as an an underlying infection or overactive thyroid can cause excessive sweating and if you have had the problem for some time, it's best to check with your doctor and get the appropriate blood tests run to rule out correctable medical causes for why your palms might sweat.

First Steps in Solving Excessive Perspiration

Everybody sweats and of course during the warm summer months or when working in a hot environment people do sweat more than normal.

In the short-run, you might want to change your clothing to be lighter, or sit in cooler parts of rooms, for example away from sunlit windows in an office.

Unfortunately, you can't always act quickly to these problems, so what else can you do?

Easy Preventative Measures

For now we'll assume that there isn't an underlying serious health issue, and just that you have an increased metabolism - perhaps through regular cardio-vascular exercise.

• In situations like this, addressing the effects of the profuse sweating are positive. For example, you can purchase dress shields to put in the underarm areas of your shirts and blouses so that they can absorb the perspiration and not allow it to soak through your clothes.
  
• Another thing popular with sufferers is applying cornstarch or talcum powder under your clothes as well.
  
• A doctor can also prescribe a strong antiperspirant to help those with profuse sweating on the palms of the hands and soles of the feet.
  
• Throughout the day, perhaps during coffee breaks, go into the restroom and blot yourself off and reapply some powder.
  
• Make sure you shower regularly; there's probably no reason you can't shower right after work if needed. Do your laundry regularly and never wear a shirt twice without laundering it.While your particular case of profuse sweating may not necessarily soak through your clothes, it will still trap some bacteria and germs on your clothes and cause them to have a bad smell.
  
• Even if you aren't sure whether or not clothes need to be laundered or if you need to bathe, do so in any case just to be sure - it makes sweat problem control the next day easier if you suffer from another bad attack. You might feel this is a real pain, but if you plan your routine, the time it takes to do the laundry and to take a quick shower can be minimised.