Palmar hyperhidrosis or excessive hand sweating can be cured by Botox

Did you ever shake hands with anybody and got the unpleasant sensation of touching a clammy skin? You may have judged a little this person, by considering him ill-at-ease or incapable of mastering his emotions.

Well, badly controlled emotionalism is not the cause of clammy hands, although a hyperactivity of the sympathetic system is in question. It is well and truly about a pathological affection, even hereditary in 70 % of the cases, which touches about 60 million persons worldwide, by causing a hypersweating of palms, and / or feet, armpits, and face. Beyond the embarrassment or the bad impression that it arouses in their fellows when they shake hands with them, these persons experience serious difficulties with the keyboards of computers and mobile phones, with their tennis rackets, etc.

Among remedies readied by the aesthetic medicine, Iontophoresis is a lifelong treatment requiring regular sessions. Botox, approved in several countries for the treatment of palmar hyperhidrosis, seems more feasible, especially because one can use it only on demand, for example when he has to exchange particularly important handshakes …