chapter 1
- Contents
- First Part: Causes and phenomena
- Function of perspiration
- Anatomy and physiology of the sweat glands
- Composition of sweat
- Protective shield against invaders
- The sweat gland as climate control
- The autonomic nervous system
- Physiological hyperhidrosis
- Primary hyperhidrosis
- Secondary hyperhidrosis
- Gustatory perspiration
- Psychogenic perspiration
- Sweating as a genetic trait
- Development and psychological support for hyperhidrosis
- The typical path of suffering of the hyperhidrotic
- Psychosocial effects of hyperhidrosis – a vicious circle
- Fear as the emotional cause of perspiration
- Social phobia
- Concurrent and secondary diseases of hyperhidrosis
- Depressions
- Diseases of the skin
- Digression: Bromhidrosis
- The Phenomenon Bromhidrosis
- Treatment of bromhidrosis
- Deodorants