How much more do people with axillary hyperhidrosis sweat compared with the average human?
This isn’t known for sure as the research hasn’t been done. There will be some who sweat the same as most other people but just mainly from their axillae (arm-pits); however there are others who will sweat more than most people and in whom it shows in the arm-pits first or the arm-pits as well as elsewhere on the body. In addition, there is a large psychological component to hyperhidrosis. Anyone who gets anxious about a little underarm sweating will drive their sympathetic nervous system and adrenaline, and will get a huge surge of sweating as part of their anxiety. As such, it is very hard to be able to answer the question with a simple statistic. This is one of the reasons we have to consult and test each patient, to get to the bottom of each individual and sort out the best treatment for them.
