Botox for Excessive Sweating (Hyperhidrosis)

Excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis) can be detrimental in many ways, but typically causes mostly social and work related problems. People with hyperhidrosis produce four or five times the amount of underarm sweat as is normal.

For the first time, there is safe, reliable and well-tolerated way of reducing sweat production that is quickly and easily administered and lasts for months: Botox. Botox, approved now for several years for the treatment of facial wrinkles, is now FDA-approved for the treatment of hyperhidrosis.

Recent long-term studies have shown that persons suffering from hyperhidrosis find a safe treatment option with Botox. Botox helps control the symptoms of severe underarm sweating.

While normal sweating is due to heat, excessive sweating is caused by brain activity that tells your underarms, hands or face to sweat.

The Botox treatment reduces over activity of the nervous system in the area by temporarily paralyzing a nerve that stimulates sweat glands. In one study, 91 percent of patients who received Botox underarm injections saw their sweating cut in half in a month, compared with 36 percent of patients given salt-water.

The treatment usually results in a marked reduction in sweat production. Botox treatments in the area have been shown to produce low side effects and reduce sweating for 6 months to 2 years. With Botox treatments of the underarms or hands, sweating stops or is greatly reduced within a few days, and the effects last for six months to a year. Repeated treatments are required, and their frequency depends on how the patient's sweating reacts to the Botox.

Blocking the sweat glands under your arms is not harmful. This is a small body-surface area, and as long as people are able to sweat on other parts of their body, there is no danger.

Be sure to read our Botox page to learn more about the wonderful results you can achieve!

Botox Results
Our patients who have undergone Botox for hyperhidrosis often tell us that the treatment is life changing. Contact us today and we will recommend a treatment strategy to ensure that you too receive the best possible results with Botox treatment.