Antiperspirants
The action of this medication targets the apocrine and eccrine sweat glands and reduces their production. Antiperspirants constitute a milder and less efficient method of diminishing the negative effects of hyperhidrosis. Many patients notice that the available commercial non-medical antiperspirants don’t produce the desired effects. Deodorants designed for this purpose also manage to help contain excessive sweating, but they do not eliminate the problem. Probably the most efficient over the counter product is Aluminum Chloride, which, in high concentration, has a more powerful impact.
Drysol is an antiperspirant containing 20% Aluminum Chloride and anhydrous ethyl alcohol. It is mostly used to treat excessive underarm sweating and palmar hyperhidrosis. It is moderately effective and as a side effect it may cause serious skin irritation. The medicine is applied to the areas affected by hyperhidrosis and is left there for six hours. It is recommended that the drug is applied at night, before going to sleep and then washed off in the morning. Long term results are not satisfactory, even though the initial effects are positive.
Another medical antiperspirant used in treating hyperhidrosis is Xertac AC. Obadan and Maxim are also commonly used to treat excessive sweating, but they are not as efficient as Drysol. Solutions based on ethanol, formalin and tannic acid are also used to treat hyperhidrosis but they are known to produce skin irritation. These antiperspirants work best when applied at night, when the negative manifestations of hypderhidrosis are reduced. The best curative effects for palmar hyperhidrosis are obtained when the antiperspirants are used in a combination with plastic gloves
Stronger antiperspirants such as Drysol, ArmsUp, WhipWetless lotion, Odaban, Mitchum Clear Gel Sport and gel base AICI can be used to control profuse sweating.
A few popular drugs commonly taken under the care of a physician are Probanthine, Prpranolol SR and Xanax.
Why are all these cures only available outside SOUTH AFRICA? i am a south African female 35 yrs old and have been suffering from excessive sweat for more than 10 years. I have been from pillar to post, nothing is available here in S.Africa except Mitchum which does not help at all. Why must we have people called DOCTORS whereas there is no cure? At least let there be some imported medications such as Obadan, Maxim, armpit pads etc. PLEASE HELP we need those cures!
en el comentarios sobre el drysol dice: Resultados a largo plazo no son satisfactorios, aunque los efectos iniciales son positivos.
¿en que manera no son satisfactorios a largo plazo?
en determinado momento ya no me hara efecto? o no se debe usar en algun tiempo determinado?
yo sufria de sudoracion excesiva ningun desodorante ni remedio casero me ayudaba, mi hermano me recomendo drysol y llevo usandolo 6 meses, puso fin a la sudoracion y el mal olor.
I can’t find anything over-the-counter that will help with my hyperhidrosis, and I don’t have the money to buy some of these things through the mail. Is there anything that I can use to help with my hyperhidrosis? HELP please.
I use milk of magnesia and it works. I know what your thinking, but I tried it 2 yrs.ago and now I don’t need it every day. Put a small amount on your hand and rub it in and when its dry use a deodorant-that will help take the white off. I read about this in a Dallas news paper.
Use the original flavor,flavored milk of magnesia does not work. Give it a try-$3.00-$4.00 and your set for 6 months
I am a 56 year old female who has been battling with this chronic ailment since I was about 7 or 8 years old. I have primary focal hyperhidrosis of the underarm (axilla). I sweat 24/7. I suffered embarrassment all through school and growing up without finding out what I had until my early twenties when I accidentally stumbled upon the information in a newspaper columnist’s response to a reader. I went to my General Practitioner for help but left humiliated and worthless.
Since my parents nor seven siblings seemed to have this problem, I just suffered in silence; at a lost for what was wrong and how to handle it. Over the past 30 plus years, I have tried just about everything on the market. I have taken the chlorophyll pills, charcoal pills, the prescription strength roll-ons, the Drionic machine and even “prescribed products such as “Methenamine”, which is actually formaldehyde or embalming fluid. Some of these products caused side-effects for ME because I have highly sensitive skin and I am allergic to lots of medications and antibiotics.
I have bought enough underarm shields to open my own store. In trying to control this problem, I have stopped short of nothing but botox (because of medical conditions) and surgery (because of the Keloid factor). I am very thankful for washing machines (burned the motors out in 3 or 4 of them) and new clothes (scent stays in them after a while and they must be thrown away).
The only products that I’ve found most effective for me (90-95%) is taking zinc tablets or applying zinc topical ointments under my arms at night. I also use two to three deodorants/antiperspirants at once; one must be a cream-creams seem to absorb into and adhere to the skin. Bi-Drier roll-on and Mitchum creams have always worked best but both are now discontinued in my area.
My struggle continues but now I speak out only because my six-year old granddaughter developed the condition at the age of four. It appears to me, the only way to get a handle on this problem is to get at the root cause. Since the body was designed to sweat, to cool itself, if you stop the sweating in one locale, it will either cause sweating in another or it will eventually cause irreversible side effects.
Thanks for letting me share my experience. I thought for sure that I would take this dreadful, emotionally painful disease to my grave with me, but it is not to be. It will live on in my family line.