Botox controls excess sweating as well as ironing out those wrinkles

Jul 25 2005

According to researchers at the St. Louis University School of Medicine, Botox may do more than iron out those wrinkles.

New research is suggesting it may help people plagued by an excessive sweating disorder, hyperhydrosis.

The condition causes sweating in excess of the normal amount required to maintain a consistent body temperature.

Apparently people with this common disorder produce up to four times the sweat of average people, and find themselves sweating even in the middle of winter.

New research shown in interim data, from a three-year study involving 193 patients, has found that repeated treatment with Botox (botulinum toxin type A) for severe underarm sweating significantly reduced the amount of sweat produced.

The team presented their findings this week at the summer meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology in Chicago.

To find out more about hyperhidrosis contact the American Osteopathic College of Dermatology.