Excessive Sweating How to tackle it
Sweating is our inbuilt response to reduce the excess body heat. The pores present on our body surface secrete sweat; it spreads over the skin surface, evaporates, and so cools off the body reducing the temperature. The system works in response to a complicated set of controls, which detects the body temperature rise and consequently signals for an appropriate reaction to the brain.
Temperature rise, although being the prime reason, but it is not the sole reason we sweat. We sweat over problems, nightmares, shocks, and any thing that makes us nervous. Such sweating is under control of the "sympathetic nervous system that becomes hyper active. By dilating the sweat outpour, the body ensures greater tolerance to heat, so that you can run faster when a big elephant, or anything like that is chasing you.
For most untrained public speakers, sweaty palms are almost a sure occurrence while delivering their first speech. Yet, generally the problem does not aggravate to a level at which treatment may become necessary. In the case of a physiological abnormality hyperhidrosis, the patients complain of persistent sweaty palms, high body odor, and soaked armpits.
The condition leaves the patients more vulnerable to social disorders, bringing about social retreat, lack of confidence, emotional problems and depression, in both adolescents and adults.
What you can start to do is to observe what is taking place once you start to sweat profusely. The body on one way or another comes under stress and the end result is excessive sweating.
Take a serious look at your lifestyle and see if anything you are doing or eating is causing your sweat problem. Make changes to your diet and observe the results. It is always worthwhile, no matter what the outcome to improve your health. This will help you to perform better.