Sweating may have implications not only beauty, but also directly affect the health, so it is common cosmetic products that reduce sweating. Should we try to reduce sweating and that is sudamen?
Hyperhidrosis - the main cause of prickly heat in adults
Hyperhidrosis - this is sweating, which is a defensive reaction of the organism when overheating, physical exertion and so on. Sometimes hyperhidrosis arises against any disease, such as diseases of the nervous, cardiovascular and endocrine systems, kidney and so on. At the same time the chemical composition of sweat can not be changed or may change, gaining an unpleasant stench.
Sudamen adults
Sudamen - a disease of the skin caused by sweating. There are several forms of prickly heat.
Crystal sudamen temporary blockage develops when sweat pores due to sweating on the background of febrile illnesses. This is an expansion of the final sections of ducts of the sweat glands to produce in the region of small cysts. This is manifested rash of the trunk, at least - certainly small (1-2 mm) thick spaced surface bubbles with clear content that does not bother the person and pass within a few hours (can be stored up to 3-4 days).
Red heat rash develops in irritation (inflammation) of the skin, caused by heavy stand out then. This can occur when heavy physical work, over-wrap at a feverish state. The skin appears itchy rash, which is densely located on the skin of the trunk and flexor surfaces of the extremities. The rash is a bright red elevation of the skin (papules) diameter from 1 to 3 mm with a narrow more intense color on the edge of the rim. In the folds of skin at the same time it may appear excessive redness and even Moisture. The duration of the red prickly heat about 1-2 weeks.
Papular or tropical heat rash occurs in tropical countries people who could not adapt to the heat. This kind of prickly heat is actually heavily marked red sudamen.
Sudamen in Infants
A baby's skin in its structure is very different from adult skin. Sweat glands are formed, but the sweat of a healthy child begins in 3-4 months, due to the imperfection of the thermoregulatory center. When overheated skin of newborns and infants is covered by a towering eruption rich pink color, the size of a pinhead. It sudamen.
And since the skin of any person (including a newborn baby) is a significant number of opportunistic pathogens, which under certain circumstances can show their pathogenic properties, the non-compliance with the rules of hygiene to the prickly heat can join pustular infection, such as staphylococcus. At the same time on the body, the folds on the scalp bubbles appear with pus. Overall condition is not violated, and with proper care and timely begun treatment rashes resolved on day 3-7. However, the surface form of pustular rash is dangerous because the infection can easily spread to other organs and tissues.
Hyperhidrosis treatment
All methods of treatment of hyperhidrosis
Hyperhidrosis - it is better to determine the cause
It can be divided into two large groups - conservative and surgical.
From conservative methods of topically applied agents, causing short-term decrease in sweating (eg, formalin). As a drug therapy using anti-anxiety agents, which remove local sweating, physiotherapy, acupuncture
Acupuncture - the ancient traditions in the service of modern science
etc.
Recently, for the treatment of hyperhidrosis Botox began to use the drug, which is repeatedly diluted poison botulinum toxin. With the introduction of Botox into place excessive sweating occurs blocking of nerve and muscle fibers in the skin and passing a temporary paralysis of the sweat glands. Action Botox lasts for several months.
For surgical treatment of hyperhidrosis include various operations on the intersection of nerves that provide innervation of sweat glands, as well as liposuction (removal of subcutaneous fat with nerve endings) and curettage
Curettage - Women's mini-operation
(scraping, such as the armpit).
Treatment for prickly heat
If prickly heat you need to take daily baths with potassium permanganate, the infusion of chamomile flowers, grass succession, or corn starch, and then the skin powder powder (such as zinc oxide and talc). Also used are agitated aqueous mixture (zinc oxide, talc, starch), solutions, antiseptics (e.g., an alcoholic solution of salicylic acid). To reduce itching can be topically applied ointment betamethasone, menthol and camphor. If the infection is now, it is assigned to antibiotic therapy.
Inside are chloride or calcium gluconate, diphenhydramine or other antihistamines
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. During treatment should avoid wearing synthetic or tight clothing, excessive use of soap, exercise.
Prickly heat treatment in children under one year should take place only under the supervision of a pediatrician, as this disease can be very dangerous for the baby.
Galina Romanenko
