Can sweating hands and feet be sweaty in summer?

In summer, some people often sweat their hands and feet, especially those who often work outdoors. They have been basking in the hot sun and their skin will sweat. Coupled with their excessive sweating, it will cause them to sweat more seriously. So do you suffer from hyperhidrosis when you sweat your hands and feet in summer? How should sweaty hands and feet be treated?

1, sweaty feet may be hyperhidrosis.

When the weather is hot, many people become particularly love sweating, especially the fatter ones. A little exercise will make them sweat all over, which generally belongs to the normal performance of body metabolism. But some people's palms and soles are always wet, and their palms stick out like a tap, and sweat drips out. This condition is generally called hyperhidrosis.

The palms and soles of people are the most densely distributed parts of eccrine glands. There are 620 sweat glands per square centimeter on the soles of feet, while there are only 140-340 in other parts of human body. Therefore, after exercising or walking for a long time, foot sweat will increase. Hyperhidrosis patients are mainly because the sympathetic nervous system reacts more strongly than others. When they are nervous, excited, anxious and angry, the sweat glands are influenced by sympathetic nerves and secrete much more sweat than others.

Expert tips

Most hyperhidrosis is not a disease, which has no direct impact on health, and with the aging of the human body, the symptoms will gradually decrease. It should be noted that some people's "love sweating" may also be caused by pathological reasons. For example, after the initial recovery from a serious illness, the body is weak and prone to sweating; Physical diseases such as hyperthyroidism, obesity and diabetes may lead to the increase of basal metabolic rate, the dysfunction of sympathetic nerve and systemic hyperhidrosis. Therefore, if sweating suddenly increases, don't sweat like rain when sweating. It is best to see a doctor in time so as not to delay the illness.

2. Sweating breeds bacteria and fungi

Although love sweating is not ill, soaking hands and feet in sweat for a long time is not only easy to breed bacteria and fungi on the skin surface, but also the cuticle of the skin will be softened and destroyed by sweat, and then attacked by bacteria or fungi. Therefore, hyperhidrosis patients often go to the hospital because of the combination of "beriberi" and "dermatitis and eczema". In summer, these patients will have itching, blistering, erosion and even infection on their feet; In winter, sweaty feet dissipate heat quickly and are prone to frostbite.

In addition, sweaty feet will bring embarrassing foot odor, and you dare not take off your shoes when you go out; Sweating hands will make people afraid to shake hands with others, and even shaking hands is a problem. These will not only affect many people's work and social interaction, but also have a serious impact on people's psychology over time.

3, hands and feet sweating conditioning

(1) Regulating spleen and stomach

Spleen and stomach have the function of transporting water and dampness. If this function is weak, damp heat will accumulate in the body and be excreted through other channels, with skin and digestive tract as the main channels. The performance of skin discharging damp heat is sweating a lot. Regulate the spleen and stomach, restore, improve or strengthen the function of clearing heat and drying dampness of the spleen and stomach, and relieve sweating of hands and feet.

Foods that regulate the spleen and stomach: bitter gourd, yam, red dates, lotus seeds, etc.

(2) drug therapy

Some people's hyperhidrosis of hands and feet is caused by sympathetic nerve injury or abnormality, which leads to the increase of acetylcholine secretion and the secretion of a lot of sweat by sweat glands. Such patients can relieve hyperhidrosis by taking drugs that reduce the concentration of acetylcholine in the body.

(3) Surgical treatment

The other is surgical treatment. Surgical treatment controls the sympathetic nerves of sweat glands in the hand, which are located in the second and third sections of the thoracic spine, that is, on both sides of the dorsal spine, that is, around the nipple line. As long as these two sympathetic nerves are cut off, you can achieve the goal of not sweating your hands.

Postoperative sequelae: compensatory sweating will occur. Compensatory sweating means that the sweat in the upper body (above the nipple) almost stops after operation, while the lower body is often wet. Except in extremely cold weather, compensatory sweating persists and will not decrease with time, on the contrary, it may be more. This is one of the most unbearable sequelae after the operation.