Why do we sweat too much?
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In our body there are more than four million sweat glands. There are two types:eccrine and apocrine. The eccrine glands are responsible for the physiological function of regulating the body temperature and eliminating toxins. These glands can produce excessive amounts of sweat under conditions of fear, anger,sorrow, physical pain,embarrassment,stress, and heavy physical exercise. The apocrine sweat glands, on the other hand, react exclusively to stimuli from the nervous system (involuntary) and hormones.
The sweat is odorless until it makes contact with the skin bacteria, and breaks down to form new substances which often have a foul odor.
Contrary to other mammals, man has sweat glands spread around the whole body, however not evenly distributed. They are mainly concentrated to hands, feet, front and under-arm.We have more than 25,000 under-arm sweat glands, both of the apocrine and the eccrine types.
Under-arm perspiration becomes excessive when the eccrine glands are exessively stimulated by fear, heat,sadness,anger,stress,emotional reasons and /or heavy physical exercise.It is also, although rarely, caused by excessive stimulation of the apocrine glands due to hormonal disfunction or disorders of the nervous system.
Excessive perspiration is in medical terms called hyperhidrosis, which is an ailment suffered by 10% of the adult population.To combat hyperhydrosis it is not enough to use a deodorant, which limits itself to cover up unpleasant odors instead of normalizing the activity of the sweat glands. |
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