Help! I'm sweating! Causes, Phenomena,Therapies (Paperback)

by Dietmar, Stattkus (Author)

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Approximately 3 % of the population suffer from pathological perspiration. For those affected, this is extremely stressful in terms of occupation, health and psycho-socially. Pathological perspiration, whose medical term is hyperhidrosis, may occur in generalized or localized form. In most cases, a functional disorder of the sweat glands is the cause of this complex clinical picture. What many of its sufferers do not know: Here are effective treatment options. In dermatological therapy practice, the application of a stepwise treatment is widely practiced. Depending on the clinical manifestation, the therapy options range from stress management through external applications and physical treatments to pharmacotherapy and surgical measures. This book provides a detailed overview of the causes, clinical phenomena and treatment options for hyperhidrosis and its special form bromhidrosis, also called fetid sweat. Competent medical specialists have contributed decisively to the configuration of the contents. "Help! I'm sweating!" provides the people affected with the opportunity to recognize their disease, to accept it and to communicate with their surroundings in order to experience healing or at least some relief in cooperation with expert and responsible doctors.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: BoD (January 18, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3833471034
• ISBN-13: 978-3833471032
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,472,211 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book on hyperhidrosis out there, February 21, 2009

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This review is from: Help! I'm sweating! (Paperback)

I suffered from severe palmar hyperhidrosis since early puberty, and had the endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy (ETS) surgery in 1998 to cure the condition after various creams and solutions did nothing to help me. Although the surgery was a success, my gustatory and plantar (feet) hyperhidrosis severely worsened as a side effect and now I am unable to wear footwear without wearing socks too, and am unable to walk bare feet much of the time without having things stick to me feet. I started my own hyperhidrosis related website (http://www.no-ets.com) to help people treat hyperhidrosis using the numerous nonsurgical cures and how to go about picking a surgeon in case all nonsurgical cures don't work.

Despite knowing quite a lot about hyperhidrosis and having my own informative website, reading Dietmar Stattkus's book left me feeling that I knew very little in some areas! I only wish that I had read this book before I had my surgery, but perhaps it wasn't even published back in 1998. Back then, an internet search on hyperhidrosis presented few results on nonsurgical treatments.

-- The chapter on drug-based therapies is especially brilliant. I was not aware of so many options and products out there when you include "ingestion of tablets or application of ointments, emulsions, powders or creams." The chapter makes many fine points, such as the difference between aluminum chloride hexahydrate (AICI3) and the less effective aluminum hydroxychloride, plant-based versus synthetic tannins, natural treatments such as sage (and the Sweatosan brand of sage-based tablets), mechanisms on how anticholinergics work (via the interplay of sweat glands, cholinergic nerves, sympathetic nerve fibers and the hypothalamus), listing of drugs that are sold in Europe and that might not be commonly known in the US (e.g., Sormodren, Vagantin) and much more.

-- A unique aspect of the book is that it also covers social phobia, depression, bromhidrosis (smelly sweating), psychosocial conflicts and other conditions related to hyperhidrosis.

-- A listing of products at the end of the book is very useful and covers over 50 items under categories such as herbal antihidrotics, anticholinergics, receptor blockers, astringents and antihidrotics, antiperspirants, psychopharmaceuticals and so on. I didn't know that besides Botox, there is another botulinum toxin product called Dysport.

-- The book also includes some great pictures, detailed first-person reports on ETS as well as reports on unique surgeries (e.g., Dr Popp's presentation on the latest aspiration hidrectomy procedure, a kind of liposuction of armpit sweat glands).

The only thing I found lacking in the book was that the iontophoresis section only covered the Hidrex machine, and left out other more popular options such as Drionic, Idrostar and Fischer MD-1a. Also, the botox section on hyperhidrosis did not cover botox injections in the hands and feet, which have recently become popular in the US. The book focused on Botox injections in the armpits which are more popular and likely to cause fewer side effects.

All in all, if you were to buy one book on hyperhidrosis, I would recommend this one. This book was originally written in German, but is far more useful than any other book on hyperhidrosis that I have read in the US.