HYPERHIDROSIS SCIENCE: Hyperhydrosis research, treatments - excessive sweating knowledge

DR. STOLL'S HYPERHIDROSIS ARTICLE INDEX

• Is previous throacic sympathectomy a risk factor for exertion?
• Treatment of palmar hyperhidrosis: T(4) level compared with T(2) and T(3).
• Severe Pomphylox Following Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy for Hyperhidrosis
• Repeat Liposuction-Curettage Treatment of Axillary Hyperhidrosis Effectiveness
• Contralateral Hyperhidrosis After Intracerebral Hemmorage
• Facial hyperhidrosis: Best Practice Recommendations and Special Considerations.
• Outpatient Microthoraacosopic Sympathectomy for Palmar Hyperhidrosis
• Use of Oral Glycopyrronium in Hyperhidrosis
• Oxybutynin for Patients with Hyperhidrosis in One Case Study
• Paroxetine Useful for Palmar-Plantar Hyperhidrosis in One Case Study
• Thoracic Sympathicolysis for Primary Hyperhydrosis
• Improved Quality of Life After Sympathetic Block for Upper limb Hyperhidrosis.
• Surgical Treatment of Axillary Hyperhidrosis
• Mydriasis and Accommodative Failure from Exposure to Topical Glycopyrrolate Used in Hyperhydrosis.
• Facial Hyperhydrosis-Induced Social Fear Alleviated with Topiramate.
• Treatment of Inguinal Hyperhidrosis or HH with Botulinum Toxin Type A.
• Hyperhidrosis in Parkinson's Disease.
• Hyperhydrosis: A Few and Often Early Symptom in Fabry Disease.

HYPERHIDROSIS KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENCE

DECEMBER 2006: Oral Drugs for Hyperhidrosis

Medical Publication:

Oxybutynin for Patients with Hyperhidrosis

Netherlands Journal of Medicine 64(9): 326-8, 2006

Synopsis: An oral drug, oxybutynin, helped one woman with her hyperhidrosis.

This is a single case report on the treatment of hyperhidrosis for a woman in the Netherlands. She had a history of excessive sweating of the face (facial hyperhydrosis) and upper body. When her general practitioner prescribed her oxybutynin for urinary incontinence, the treatment had the added side effect of curing her sweating problem, hyperhydrosis. Apparently, the anticholinergic effect of oxybutynin, which was designed to help the urinary problem, also aided the excessive sweating or hyperhidrosis.

Conclusion: It is always good to keep in mind that this is only a single case report of a drug that helps hyperhidrosis. For a drug to be deemed safe and effective in the treatment of hyperhydrosis, or excessive sweating, it must undergo a multitude of patient tests to prove its medical effectiveness. However, this is an encouraging report of a drug that has potential to alleviate, or possibly even cure excessive sweating.

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