Excessive sweating - Hyperhidrosis
Excessive underarm sweating can disrupt many aspects of a person’s life, from career choices and recreational activities to relationships, emotional well-being and self-esteem.
Excessive sweating, medically known as hyperhidrosis, involves overactive sweat glands. When sweating becomes excessive it can be embarrassing, uncomfortable, stressful, and disabling.
What is SWEATOX treatment?
Using is a natural, purified protein that temporarily blocks the release of a chemical that signals perspiration, helping to reduce excessive sweating. The active ingredient is derived from bacteria in much the same way penicillin is derived from mould. It is manufactured in sterile laboratory conditions.
The prescription-only medicine and treatment is only available from a qualified medical professional. It is registered for the treatment of severe axillary hyperhidrosis (excessive underarm sweating).
How does SWEATOX treatment work?
The injection therapy can be used to treat excessive underarm sweating by targeting sweating at its source. Once injected by your doctor, the protein enters the specific glands in the underarms responsible for excessive sweating. There, it blocks the release of a chemical that signals the body to produce perspiration.
What does the treatment involve?
SWEATOX treatment is a non-surgical procedure whereby a small amount administered into the skin of the armpits by a trained medical professional using a very fine needle. Generally, the procedure takes around 20 minutes. Discomfort is typically minimal and brief, and although the injection may sting for a few seconds, normal activities can be resumed soon after.
After the injection, it takes about 7 days for the treatment to take full effect, improvement lasts on average of 7 months. However, the amount of time the treatmment remains effective may vary from person to person. When you symptoms begin to return, for further teatments. A treatment prior to summer provides great relief throughout the warmer months. Patients often report that camouflage is sufficient during cooler weather and the once a year injection gives excellent cost effective relief!
Are there any side effects?
In addition to its use for treating hyperhidrosis, similar treatments are used to treat a variety of conditions, including cerebral palsy in children and movement disorders (head, beck, shoulder and face).
As with all medicines, sweatox may cause some side effects. In the amounts used for the treatment of hyperhidrosis, the side effects are usually temporary and localized to the area of injection. The most common side effects for primary hyperhidrosis are a perceived increase in sweating in areas other than the underarms, pain at the injection site, pain, hot flushes, and transient arm weakness. If you have any questions about side effects, please ask you doctor.