Botox for Excessive Sweating

Botulinum Toxin for excessive sweating

Does heavy sweating sometimes disrupt your daily activities and makes you feel embarrassed or even anxious? People who sweat excessively often soak through their clothing or drip sweat. Antiperspirants do not seem to work. Botulinum Toxin treatment can help improve heavy sweating, and it has become a safe and popular treatment.

Botulinum Toxin has been approved by the FDA to treat people who are sweating excessively from their armpits. It may also be used to treat excessive sweating in other areas such as your arms, feet and face.

How does it work for sweating?

Botulinum Toxin is able to block the nerves that make the sweat glands produce sweat. This nerve normally activates the sweat gland when your body temperature rises. This is how your body cools itself to prevent it from getting overheated. However, in people with excessive sweating, the nerves that supply the sweat gland are overactive.

Gentle injections into the area where you sweat paralyze the nerves that activate your sweat gland. When nerves can’t signal your sweat glands, you sweat less.

How effective is Botox for sweating?

Studies have shown that Botox successfully treats underarm sweating in more than 90%. Botox for sweating appears to last longer compared to cosmetic Botox that is used to treat wrinkles. You can expect to sweat less for approximately 6 months rather than the 3 or 4 months with cosmetic Botox.

Botox can also be used to treat problematic sweating in other areas of your body, such as your soles, palms and on your forehead.

Are other treatments available to treat problematic sweating?

Yes. Please make an appointment with Dr. Nadja Haub to discuss you needs. If you feel that botulinum toxin injections are not the right choice for you, or if you experience excessive sweating in areas of your body that may not be suitable for injections, there are other options available.

Topical treatments such as glycopyrronium (QBREXA®) were recently approved by the FDA in the US but are not yet available in New Zealand. QBREXA® is a so-called anticholinergic, a substance that is able to inhibit the transmitters surrounding the sweat gland that make it produce sweat.

If it is medically safe, you may be a good candidate to try a prescription drug called Oxybutinin®. This is an anticholinergic which is a substance that inhibits transmitters. These transmitters are small proteins that signal the sweat gland to produce sweat. When we inhibit the sweat gland with the help of this medication, you will sweat less as a result.

Can Anxiety Cause Sweating?

Some people may suffer from anxiety and this may make them sweat more. Anxiety can be relieved with medications such as Propanolol® which is a betablocker or antidepressants. It would be important to provide additional emotional or psychological support to people who suffer from anxiety.

What is botulinum toxin and how does it work?

Please read all information about Botulinum Toxin in our FAQ section. If you have any more questions, please contact us for a confidential appointment with Dr Nadja Haub.

Dr Haub offers all three FDA approved Botulinum Toxin preparations (Xeomin®, Botox® or Dysport®). Book a consultation today to find out if Botulinum Toxin is the right treatment for you.

Botox for Excessive Sweating

Botulinum Toxin for excessive sweating

How does it work for sweating?

How effective is Botox for sweating?

Are other treatments available to treat problematic sweating?

Can Anxiety Cause Sweating?

What is botulinum toxin and how does it work?

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