What to do about axillary hyperhidrosis

Axillary hyperhidrosis can be treated by medication, local injection, surgery and so on. 1. Drug treatment: axillary hyperhidrosis can use antiperspirant to stop sweating, commonly used aluminum chloride solution, alum solution, tannic acid solution, etc., need to be based on the severity of sweating to formulate the medication program. It should be noted that if the drug is used too often, the affected area will appear dry, cracked and other phenomena. 2. Local injection treatment: patients can also be injected with botulinum toxin type A to treat, injection 5-7 days after the sweat can be significantly stopped, adhere to the injection for 4-6 months can be completely stop sweating. This method also has certain side effects, such as injection of local pain, muscle weakness and other symptoms. 3. Surgery: If the above methods are ineffective, patients can undergo surgery, which includes sweat gland removal and sympathetic nerve blockade. Sweat gland removal is a minimally invasive surgery, which can scrape away the active sweat glands, thus curing the disease, and the recurrence rate after the surgery is low, which is the preferred treatment method. Patients should pay attention to personal hygiene, wear loose and breathable clothes, and change clothes and bathe more often.