Would the Best Treatment For Hyperhidrosis Be Dangerous?
Think about it… the best treatment for hyperhidrosis, if it were dangerous, just wouldn’t be the best then, would it? It would hardly be intelligent to consider it good. And yet, the “best” that modern medicine seems to be able to provide are treatments which have crazy side-effects, can be painful or unpleasant, be wildly expensive, and in the end they are all only temporary fixes anyway. So, what are some of these treatments of questionable safety? Well, there’s the method of altering body/brain chemistry through the use of lab-created chemically based drugs… anticholinergics, to be precise. These inhibit the flow of acetylcholine, which is a neurotransmitter that spurs the sweat glands to over-produce. The effects seem satisfactory, but are merely temporary. The side-effects include urinary retention, blurred vision, heart palpitations and other such craziness. This is hardly the best treatment for hyperhidrosis, if you ask me. Of course, there is also the use of iontopheresis,
