The heat will sweat, when nervous people will sweat, this is a natural reaction. However, some people sweat as much as Duan Yu of “The Eight Dragons”, so much that water can drip out. Even when holding a pen and writing, the handwriting is immediately blurred by the sweat dripping down, which belongs to hyperhidrosis and must be eradicated by surgery. Ans: Excessive sweat secretion caused by excessive sympathetic hyperactivity. Technically speaking, it is called “hand sweating”. Although the patient’s whole body sweats a lot, usually the hands, feet and armpits sweat a lot, but it is the hand sweating that affects life and work the most. Symptoms: The patient’s hands are too sweaty to reach out, shake hands with people, carry handkerchiefs and tissues to absorb sweat and affect social interaction. It is rare to see such people around you? This is not the case, the incidence of this disease called “hyperhidrosis” ranging from 0.3% to 4.6%, the physician described the symptoms of many patients: “less than two minutes to reach out, sweat beads can drip to the ground. This kind of people have an inferiority complex, wrapped themselves up tightly, desperately hiding clumsy, their own pain is not necessarily known to the surrounding people, thus affecting their social, learning and work. The first thing you can do is to take a pill to cure the problem, surgery to eradicate Xiao Liu is such a typical patient, his hands and feet since childhood can drip out of water: wear socks not a moment to socks wet, exams to get the test papers wet; typing, shaking hands when the keyboard and each other’s hands get wet. The parents first thought of taking him to a dermatologist for treatment, and then to a Chinese medicine doctor, using Chinese medicine to adjust the body, but the effect is not good, a stop the medicine sweat is back. The Chinese medicine is “treating the symptoms but not the root cause”, it may be effective when the medicine is used, but when the medicine is stopped the problem is back. The tendency of hyperhidrosis is hereditary, and the symptoms can appear in childhood and become more pronounced in adolescence. It is also affected by emotions, when nervousness, sweating will be more. If you’re like Liu, you’re wrong to go to a dermatologist or a Chinese medicine doctor, you should register with an unexpected department for thoracic surgery. Indeed, sweaty hands are not associated with chest problems for the majority of people. The wrong clinic is the problem for most patients. In fact, the only cure for hyperhidrosis is a minimally invasive surgery on both sides of the chest wall in thoracic surgery. The reason why “hand sweating” is associated with “chest surgery” is because the sympathetic nerves on both sides of the chest wall command hand sweating. The surgical solution to hyperhidrosis is not to cut out the sweat glands. The purpose of surgery is to cut out the sympathetic nerve that is responsible for hand sweating, so that the sweat does not go to the “hand path” and drains elsewhere. This is the equivalent of a river with many tributaries, diverting the water away from this channel and to other places, “making the hand route impassable” to solve the problem of excessive sweating. The sweating is caused by a disease that can’t be dealt with surgically. The sweating of the small hands actually needs to be solved surgically? Don’t be afraid when you hear about surgery. The medical community has taken medication to treat hyperhidrosis, but the results have been poor. Later, surgical treatment was adopted, and now it is all “minimally invasive surgery”. In the location near the armpit to open a small 0.5 ~ 1 cm opening, the sympathetic nerve located in the chest to guide hand sweating cut off a little to solve the problem, the operation can be completed in about half an hour, the next day can be discharged, the operation mouth and in the two armpits, will not affect the aesthetic. Xie Liang, a thoracic surgeon at the Provincial People’s Hospital, recommends that patients have surgery after the age of 12, when their bodies are more developed. But not every person with hyperhidrosis is suitable for surgery and needs. Xie Liang said, a look at the sweating patients, first rule out other diseases, such as about half of the hyperhidrosis for “secondary hyperhidrosis”, excessive sweating is mainly caused by tumors, hyperthyroidism and other diseases. This type of hyperhidrosis cannot be solved by surgery and requires treatment of the primary disease. In the case of primary hyperhidrosis, it is also necessary to determine the symptoms. Mild hyperhidrosis is only seen sweating and can be ignored as it has little impact on life. In moderate and severe cases, the sweat can wet the paper or drip out, and if the patient has a strong desire for improvement, he or she should be treated by surgery. Many patients have questions, do not let the sweat from the hand away, is not from then on the hand becomes dry and cracked, a little sweat is not it? Chen Gang said, this is related to the level of surgery, surgery if done well, the most ideal is the same as a normal person’s hand, there is a normal degree of moistness. Many patients in the clinic were cold and wet before the surgery because they were subjected to sweating, and after the surgery, they obviously felt that their hands were warm. In addition, a possible complication of minimally invasive surgery is called “compensatory hyperhidrosis” (metastatic sweating), because the sweat goes “out of the hand” and may cause more sweating in other areas, and is usually found in the back. This problem was seen in previous surgeries, but now, with medical advances, newer surgeries are cutting less and less of the sympathetic nerve in the third or fourth rib, which also reduces compensatory hyperhidrosis.