Hyperhidrosis

Hyperhidrosis is excessive sweating, usually of the palms and underarms. This is an inherited condition. Although it usually responds to topical prescription medication (and this is always tried as first-line treatment), this embarrasing malady can now be successfully treated with Botox injections if the first-line treatment fails! The good news is the results are fairly longlasting, sometimes for one year. Using topical cream anesthesia and our Zimmer Cryo 5 cold air anesthesia machine, these palm and underarm injections are made comfortable at Hughes Dermatology. (Some other offices use nerve block injections in the wrists for anesthesia which are uncomfortable and can produce serious side effects.)

In October 2007, Dr. Hughes was filmed and interviewed as a medical expert in a British documentary on hyperhidrosis. Stay tuned!