What Is Facial Hyperhidrosis?
Facial relates to the face, and hyper-hidrosis is excessive sweating. So Facial Hyperhidrosis is profuse sweating of the face but it may also affect the neck and scalp. It’s sometimes referred to medically as “craniofacial hyperhidrosis” which encompasses the rest of the head and not just the face. Unfortunately, the image people have of facial hyperhidrosis is of a fat sweaty man constantly wiping his face with a hanky. That stereoype is actually unhelpful because facial hyperhidrosis is actually quite common. Facial hyperhidrosis may also occur with other localized sweating such as Palmar Hyperhidrosis, excess sweating of the hands, Plantar Hyperhidrosis, excess sweating of the feet and Axillary Hyperhidrosis, excess sweating of the underarms. What Causes Facial Hyperhidrosis? Like other forms of hyperhidrosis, facial hyperhidrosis is a result of an overactive sympathetic nervous system. Basically, instead of sweating only when the body requires it, a person with facial hyperhidrosis
