subject: How To Stop Excessive Head Sweating -- Top Tips To Cure Your Head Sweating Naturally [print this page] Head sweating is definitely not a pleasant experience at all- sweat dripping on to your face from your head, the hair on the front portion looking oily and sticky due to sweat, having to constantly dab the sweat away, and eventually leading to a sweaty, odorous scalp is not welcome. This makes our body language not a pleasing one as well. This may lead to irritable nature of behavior when it happens in excess and seems uncontrollable.
Sweating happens due to activation on sympathetic nervous system because anxiety, outside temperature or due to taking stimulants. One related phenomenon is facial blushing from which head sweating often originates. Head sweating is scientifically named hyperhidrosis and there could be two types of it- primary hyperhidrosis and secondary hyperhidrosis. The primary hyperhidrosis is much easier to cure than the secondary hyperhidrosis as the latter happens due to certain medical conditions.
A lot of medicines and surgeries are suggested like beta blockers, Botox, sweat glands surgery etc. These are believed to be pretty painful surgeries and the medications more than often result in severe negative side effects. For e.g. ETS surgery leads to blocking certain sweat glands from which there is excessive head sweating. But this in turn leads to compensatory sweating from those areas which have not been blocked- for e.g. the lower torso could start sweating vigorously.
Incase of Primary hyperhidrosis, some little tips can help cure it. Maintaining proper hygiene is important. Cleaning oneself meticulous and regularly is important for the elimination of itchiness of scalp and smelly sweat. This is temporary though. One could train oneself to face anxious situations, be able to handle them with confidence and thereby stop getting panicky and embarrassed.
Some methods important for this are- meditation: this helps in flushing out carbon dioxide from the body and thus brings in more peace and calmness in the organism. Cognitive behavior therapy: this trains the person to learn to face his/ her fears of social situations which lead to hot flushes and head sweating.
The therapy leads the patient step by step closer to facing the fears at increasing difficulty levels and eventually makes the person capable of voluntarily controlling his anxiety and fears by the emotional tools given by the therapist to him/ her. Hypnosis: this is another way of cure by giving the patient subconscious suggestion regarding anxiety provoking situations.
The person learns to evoke positive thoughts instead of anxiety in and anxious or embarrassing situation. Avoiding caffeine can also be a remedy since it is a stimulant and it affects the process of blood circulation and can heat up the body leading to sweating.
Secondary hyperhidrosis can be reduced by curing the medical conditions underlying it- it could be hyperthyroidism, diabetes, hormonal imbalances etc. Eliminating the medical conditions would imply removing the stimuli that trigger excessive sweating and thus reduction or elimination of hyperhidrosis.
How to stop sweating has been enumerated above. There can be more natural ways for curing excessive head sweating. But it is best to visit a doctor and seek his advice before taking up any solution.
