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.