Foods that Make You Sweat.

Any hot drink – but especially coffee and black tea Salad dressings - Coleslaw/ketchup/mayonnaise/salad cream. 

Chocolate Very spicy foods (obvious ones being chilies) Milk eggs Almost all heavily processed foods (packet meals, microwave meals, pastries cakes and biscuits) containing lots of preservatives Bananas Honey! (I don’t eat meat so I can’t comment on the effects). 

You may be thinking that leaving these foods out of your diet would be an impossible, not to say extremely undesirable, task but initially you may not have to.

 The whole point of my plan is to make small adjustments, a bit at a time. 

You should definitely try and avoid caffeine, sugar and cigarettes because doing so will give you an immediate improvement, but from then on it’s a question of working with your body to discover for yourself which other foods you should leave out of your diet. 

Each person has unique dietary needs and food intolerances and as well as steering clear from the ones that I list above, you will no doubt discover others yourself that trigger your sweating as you become more tuned in to the role that the foods we eat play in determining our health

What causes Hyperhidrosis?

As with any ailment, understanding how it develops is the key to treating it. 

So what are the causes of Hyperhidrosis? For reasons unclear to researchers, extreme sweating occurs when the sympathetic nervous system goes into overdrive.

 There also seems to be a hereditary component to the condition, as some sufferers claim to have a relative with Hyperhidrosis. 

So, putting aside the hereditary factors, (because there’s not much we can do about those!), let’s turn our attentions to the other cause – over-activity of the sympathetic nervous system… Although nobody seems to understand the exact cause of our problem, we do know that the normal bodily process of sweating is controlled by the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) – as explained above. 

it therefore follows that if we are sweating excessively,as in the case of Hyperhidrosis, the SNS must be working too hard or undergoing too much stimulation in some way. 

Many doctors feel that when the sympathetic nerves are over stimulated too much of the neurotransmitter, acetylcholine is produced. 

Too much of this chemical present next to the sweat glands stimulates them to produce large amounts of fluid.  It makes sense then, if we are to reduce or control excessive sweating, we need to reduce activities and substances that stimulate the nervous system. 

It is on this principle that my treatment program rests. 

We’ll come to the program in a moment but first let’s have a quick look at some of the other treatments that are currently available for Hyperhidrosis.

main categories of Hyperhidrosis:

There are two main categories of Hyperhidrosis:

 Primary Hyperhidrosis

 

Primary Hyperhidrosis can occur in the hands (palmar Hyperhidrosis), in the armpits (axillary Hyperhidrosis), on the face (facial Hyperhidrosis), or in the feet (plantar Hyperhidrosis).
 Secondary Hyperhidrosis 



generally affects the entire body and may be caused by underlying conditions such as:
 Hyperthyroidism 
Infections
 Malignancy 
Auto-immune disorders 
Obesity 
Menopause
 Diabetes 
Psychiatric disorders