EXCESSIVE FACE SWEATING
Excessive face sweating causes and treatments

Excessive face sweating or facial "hyperhidrosis" as it is more commonly known in the medical industry plagues about 3 million people each year. Facial sweating is normal and it serves a function to cool your face and head and your entire body. As your face sweats, the atmosphere evaporates the moisture, causing cooling. This is normal.

Excessive face sweating however is a condition where you sweat beyond the normal boundries of thermal regulation and the sweating simply becomes a nuisance, an embarrassment and a point of embarrassment. Without going into the specific details of the causes of hyperhidrosis,.

Excessive face sweating treatments can involve simply taking cold showers, avoiding spices, dieting and excercise. For about a decade, many people have tried the surgery ETS (endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy) with grave consequences. This is a surgery where a surgeon will enter the chest cavity through a small incision using a small trocar and endoscope and then cut the sympathetic nerves that supply the neuro chemicals to the upper chest, face and hand regions, thereby disabling the body to sweat in these regions. This sugery has had horrific consequences for many patients. Click here to read some very concerning testimonies of people who are having significant compensatory sweating as a result of this horrible surgery.

Dr. Reisfeld with the Beverly Hills Hyperhidrosis Center at present advises all patients to try other conservative options before considering surgical intervention. The different conservative modalities include medications such as the anticholinergic drugs Robinol, Ditropan and Propanthelin. One can also try these medications together with mild sedatives such as Xananx.facial blushing or facial sweating.

There is a new aluminum free antiperpsirant on the market called Maxim Plus. I understand that it was developed by a PhD Cosmetic Pharmacist in Italy specifically for the treatment of sweaty hands and sweaty face.

Here is a good clinical study on Maxim Plus.