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.