Sweating feet

Perspiration of feet is more correctly called hyperhidrosis of feet. All the skin covers, literally from the head to the feet, contain glands secreting moisture, thus performing the function of thermoregulation and elimination of toxins from the body. The skin contains about three million glands, which sweat out, about three hundred thousand feet. Increased sweating can be purely physiological - with an increase in body temperature, in hot weather, when the body tries to adjust the temperature balance. Also, the sweating of the legs is not considered pathological in cases of intense physical exertion or training. However, excessive sweating can also signal internal dysfunctions, in addition, hyperhidrosis is a real calamity causing a lot of anxiety, as sweating of the legs is accompanied by a specific odor. The smell of sweat is not considered comfortable for the sense of smell, and the feet exude a particularly unpleasant smell, which is heard not only by the owner of sweating feet, but also by everyone around them. Smell is the result of a pathological union of bacteria that are on the skin, and secreted sweat. In addition, high humidity creates favorable conditions for the development of fungal diseases, joining microscopes that already exist, create a particularly specific smell characteristic of mycosis.

Factors that cause sweating of the feet are diverse, but most often refer to the elementary non-observance of the rules of personal hygiene.

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Perspiration of the feet, causes

• Uncomfortable shoes, narrow, tight, of poor-quality material. Wearing fashionable, but uncomfortable shoes, is typical of many young people, both female and representatives of the strong half of humanity. It is also incorrect from the point of view of hygiene to stay a full day in closed shoes on polyurethane or rubber soles. Any synthetics closes the air access to the skin, it concerns shoes and socks, tights. In a closed "greenhouse" atmosphere, microorganisms - bacteria, microbes, multiply rapidly reproduce the specific odor of sweat due to the fruits of their vital activity.
• Stress and emotional overstrain. The sweat glands, more precisely their function of excretion, are controlled by a part of the nervous system - the vegetative system, as well as the spinal cord. In turn, the vegetative system is subject to the brain, especially the area of the brain that controls the impressions and sensations. Any stress, fear, anxiety causes muscle tension, provoking the release of certain hormones. And the body tries to remove the products of active hormonal activity with the help of sweat glands.
• Violation, non-compliance with basic rules of personal hygiene, poor, irregular care of stops.
• Endocrine dysfunctions, pathologies of internal organs, oncological process. Hyperhidrosis is a compensatory symptom in these cases, when the body tries to remove itself, harmful substances, toxins through the sweat glands.
• Fungus, dermatomycosis of the foot. This disease, which is transmitted by contact, infected people who do not observe the rule of "privacy" of shoes and linen, that is, they can afford to wear someone else's shoes or visit public places (swimming pool, baths, saunas) without shoes. Fungal diseases are treated long and complex, as mycosis often spreads all over the body, affecting the hands, the groin and even the head.

Sweating of the feet is neutralized primarily by the observance of regular personal hygiene. Careful care of your feet can relieve not only from an unpleasant odor, but also is the best prevention of fungal diseases.

How to treat sweating of the feet?

• To wash your feet at least twice a day, regardless of the season, in summer the number of water procedures can be increased.
• Observe a diet that excludes the consumption of fried, spicy foods, smoked products.
• It is essential to wipe your feet dry, leaving no chance to accumulate moisture, which is a comfortable zone for bacteria.
• Regularly after the water procedures lubricate the feet, including the fingers and the areas between them, special creams and ointments with antifungal action (Lamisil, Itraconazal Undecin, Mikoseptin). Even if fungal diseases are not diagnosed, but sweating of the feet is increased, ointments should be applied for the prevention of at least a week.
• Any cream, ointment, lotion should be applied to a well-cleaned skin of the foot, otherwise the combination of medicinal ingredients with microbes can enhance the specific odor of sweat.
• A good effect has a decoction of the oak bark, which is brewed at the rate of 50 grams of bark per 1 liter of boiling water. Bay with boiling water bark, it must be insisted for at least an hour, the infusion obtained is poured into a container of warm water and soak in it feet twice a day for at least one week. Tannins (catechins), terpenes contained in oak bark, have antimicrobial, antiseptic action.
• Resistant results give lotions with essential oil of tea tree, which contains antiseptic cineol, bactericidal substances - monoterpenes. Essential oil must be diluted in any vegetable oil in the proportion of 5 drops of tea tree oil per 50 milliliters of vegetable oil. This mixture can lubricate the feet, skin areas between the fingers for two weeks, preferably 15 minutes after the procedure (let the oil soak) to wear clean cotton socks.
• If alternative drugs and herbal medicine does not bring sustainable results, you can use pharmaceuticals - special antiperspirants (Dry Dry, Anticap).
• As a complex treatment, which is aimed at eliminating the sweating of vegetative-vascular etiology, it is possible to spend on a course of sedatives, normalizing the state of the nervous system - Gliessed, Corvaltab, Corvalment, phytogens.

What if the sweating of the legs does not respond to home therapies?

One of the new methods that are gaining popularity is the salon procedure - injections of botulinum toxin, which effectively interrupts the pathological process of excessive sweating. The result is quite persistent and lasting, what a man sweats feet for six months.

Perspiration of the feet is most often treated in a complex way: procedures that affect the external skin are needed, but also activities aimed at normalizing the functions of internal organs and systems are also important. To obtain a stable result, it is advisable to address this delicate problem to a dermatologist or a cosmetologist, undergo a checkup and start treatment prescribed by professionals.