Drenched shirts, dripping hands; symptoms of hyperhidrosis
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By Nicole Boone
WBTW News13 Anchor
Published: September 5, 2008
When 15-year-old Ali Kerr was training for a swim meet, wet hands were not an issue. But at school the problem was all too obvious.
“I didn’t really like to take tests.“ Her hands would soak the paper. “My friends laughed at me a lot and made fun of me. And I made fun of myself.“ But the sweating wasn’t funny.
Dr. Harold Burkhart says the condition, which causes your hands and armpits to sweat excessively, is not dangerous, but it can certainly be a huge embarrassment for people who have it.
Dr. Burkhart says the excess sweating happens when an over-stimulated nerve chain along the spine sends too many signals to sweat glands in your skin. To stop the sweating, Dr. Burkhart makes a small incision under each arm where he inserts a camera and small surgical instruments. At a specific point along the nerve chain, he cuts the nerve, interrupting the signals. This stops the sweating in more than 99-percent of all cases.
“This really changes a lot of people’s lives,“ said Dr. Burkhart. And it certainly changed Ali’s life.
For more information go to http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-edge.
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