Health Care

By Renard Muldrake

If you're looking to stop hand sweating, chances are you've dealt with your fair share of clammy hand days, maybe even dripping hand days. It's a condition known as Palmar Hyperhidrosis and it is quite a pain to manage. Not only does it make social situations an issue, but it can even affect your ability to hold objects or perform tasks! It's for this reason that solutions are so desperately sought out to cure this condition which effects over 8 million worldwide.

So if you want to stop hand sweating there are several ways to go about it. First you can try Iontophoresis. This is a process in which you place your hands in shallow pans of water while a small electrical current is passed through it. This causes the minerals in the water to react and form a barrier around your hands, preventing excess sweating from escaping. Now this is effective in over 80% of cases, however treatment lasts 30-45 minutes and you need to undergo this every other day at first, after which you can ease up to once a week. It isn't a cure, but if you have the patience to go through the treatment, it is quite effective.

The other method you can consider to stop hand sweating is Botox treatment. It involves getting injections of Botox into the palms of your hands. How does that help? Well, the Botox interferes with your sympathetic nerves ability to communicate with your sweat glands and tell them to start sweating. This results in a drastic decrease in sweating in 80-90% of cases. Again, this isn't permanent, but it lasts a little longer (6-12 months). You're going to have to shell out about $600-$700 for this treatment though, but if you have the money, this might be the solution for you.