Showing posts with label sweat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweat. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Over Sweat Or Sweating ?

It is a known fact that overweight and obese people are more prone to excessive sweating as they perspire more.

However, excessive perspiration can be also due to several underlying medical conditions such as menopause, psychiatric illnesses and very active thyroid glands.

Excessive sweating is also known to occur to people with no known medical condition and thus the cause of heavy sweating for this group of people is unknown.

It is very distressing to suffer from over sweating and many people with this condition also suffer from low self esteem. This is because excessive sweating may cause them to have undesirable body odor, looking unkempt and dirty.

It is easier for those who are overweight to reduce excessive perspiration since it is just a matter of reducing their body fat weight. Losing weight is easy with the right combination of exercises and healthy eating habits. Many people who find it hard to lose weight and disagree with me that losing weight is easy is because they are doing it wrongly.
If excessive sweating is localized on parts of the body such as armpits, palms or the soles of feet, then treatments may be necessary to reduce over perspiration. Sometimes anti-perspirants applied to the affected body part may just stop excessive sweating albeit temporarily.

Simple and non surgical medical treatments that are known to reduce or even sometimes stop excessive sweating successfully are Iontophoresis where a low electrical current is introduced to the affected parts of the body or getting Botulinum toxin injections commonly known as Botox injections.

If you are suffering from excessive sweating and over perspiration, and since this condition is most prevalent among people who are overweight, go get a medical check up to see if you are obese. If you are, then embark on a healthy diet and exercise program and your excessive sweating condition may be solved permanently.



Source :http://www.articlesbase.com/health-articles/how-to-reduce-over-sweating-stop-excessive-perspiration-15297.html

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

My foot odor ...


The reason for foot odor are sweat-eating bacteria.


It starts when bacteria become attracted to the sweat on your feet and start feeding on it.


Our foot has over 250,000 sweat glands in it , and produces over a pint of sweat a day so there's a lot for the bacteria to eat.


Much worse are shoes and socks which trap the sweat on your skin.


Now the bacteria have their favorite kind of environment : dark and damp, causing them to go into a feeding frenzy.


Some tips to reduce foor odor :


Always wear clean socks.

It is even recommended you change sock throughout the day.


Wash your feet with anti-bacterial soap.

This won't lessen the sweat, but it will kill bacteria.


Give a pair of shoes 24 hours to air out after every wearing.

The sweat will evaporate.


Avoid restrictive shoes like, boots.

Well-ventilated shoes whisk away sweat.


Wear socks made of absorbent materials, like cotton.

The sock will soak up the sweat leaving the bacteria nothing to feed on.


Apply antiperspirant to you feet.