Are you experiencing excessive sweating of the head or cranial hyperhidrosis? Although cranial hyperhidrosis is not a painful condition, it can still affect your life in one way or another. Because of this, you will want to be treated for cranial hyperhidrosis but you have to study the different options before deciding on which one to get.
Profuse head sweating or cranial hyperhidrosis results from a nervous system malfunction. Doctors are sure that a person with primary cranial hyperhidrosis is very much healthy eventhough the mechanism of the nervous system malfunction is still unclear. Cranial hyperhidrosis only becomes a serious medical condition if it is secondary to another disorder like diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, heart failure, and many more.
Some people simply choose to live with it while others try the different treatment methods that are available today. If you choose to have it treated, you must know that you have to choose among a variety of treatment methods like antiperspirants, anticholinergic drugs, surgery, and botox injections, and many more.
Every treatment method has advantages and disadvantages that someone with cranial hyperhidrosis must look into. Here are some important characteristics that you have to look for in making the right choice.
First, you have to look into the adverse effects of every treatment method. You must determine if these side effects are something that you can live with or not. For example, the usual side effects that people experience when taking anticholinergic drugs are nausea, rashes, diarrhea, and others. For Botox injections, the usual side effects are double vision, dizziness, muscle weakness, facial pain, flu-like symptoms, headache, and others.
Second, you have to look into the duration of effectiveness of every treatment option. Since every treatment option varies in the duration of its effectiveness, you must consider the long-term and short-term effects. For example, botox injections are effective in treating cranial hyperhidrosis for a duration of four months. This means that you will need to go through a new series of Botox injections after four months because the effectiveness has worn off. Of all the treatment methods, surgery has the longest duration of effectiveness but this is only considered as a last resort because of the possible post-operative complications that may arise.
Third, you have to look into all the possible complications that may arise from every treatment method. If not done right Botox injections may result in asymmetrical features. With surgery, there are possible post-operative complications that may arise aside from the development of compensatory sweating. Some people who chose surgery as a treatment method experienced compensatory sweating and they were sorry for having chosen the treatment. On the other hand, other patients still thought that getting rid of the hyperhidrosis was better than having compensatory sweating.
These examples show that some treatment methods for cranial hyperhidrosis may suit one person but not another. Because of the varying advantages and disadvantages for each treatment method, it is best to weigh all the options very well.
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