How To Stop Excessive Sweating Easily

If your excessive sweating is consistent, and it happens regardless of your activity level, the temperature or the product you're using, talk to your doctor. It's possible that you could have hyperhidrosis, a condition that affects about 8 million Americans. People with hyperhidrosis suffer from extremely sweaty hands, feet and underarms due to overstimulation of the sweat glands, Garza explains.

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If you have do have the condition, your doctor can work with you to investigate treatment options. Drysol, an aluminum-chloride and ethyl-alcohol solution, is available by prescription. It's usually applied at night and washed off in the morning, and should be used until the sweating is under control. Botox, the popular injectable wrinkle remedy, also can be used to control sweating; injected into the skin, it temporarily paralyzes the sweat glands in the treated area. The procedure is done in a doctor's office and needs to be repeated only once or twice yearly--at a cost of about $600-$700 per treatment.

For more information on surgical and other treatment options for excessive sweating, talk to your doctor or visit The Hyperhidrosis Center Web site, handsdry.com.

Q Even though I wash my face every day, I still get a lot of blackheads. What causes them, and what can I do to make them go away?

A Blackheads are typically found on areas of the skin with numerous oil (sebum) glands, such as the nose, forehead and chin. They occur when a pore gets clogged with debris--usually dead skin cells and oil, although residue from heavy skin creams and makeup may also contribute. This debris hardens to form a block, or plug, under which sebum accumulates. Some people are predisposed to blackheads because their dead skin cells do not shed properly, which generally occurs about every 28 days.

Conventional wisdom used to be that blackheads were dark because the oil found in the clogged pore oxidized when exposed to air. Now dermatologists believe that the dark color results from a concentration of melanin pigment in the trapped cells, explains Loretta Pratt, M.D., a dermatologist with the Sally Balin Medical Center in Media, Pa.

Proper cleansing via exfoliation is the first step to clearing up blackheads, but don't scrub too frequently (no more than twice a week), Pratt cautions. Harsh scrubbing can strip the skin of the moisture it needs, causing the oil glands to produce even more oil.

When it comes to ingredients, salicylic acid, a beta-hydroxy acid known for its ability to "unglue" sticky dead skin cells, is found in many blackhead treatment products like Clean & Clear's Blackhead Clearing line, which includes a scrub, cleansing pads and astringent ($5 each), and Neutrogena's new Oil-Free Acne Wash 60 Second Mask Scrub ($8; both at drugstores). Benzoyl peroxide also fights blackheads effectively; it has exfoliating properties and kills the bacteria in clogged pores. (Try it in Clearasil Maximum Strength Vanishing Acne Treatment Cream, $5; at drugstores.)

Whatever you do, resist the urge to extract blackheads yourself. "Squeezing pores can force bacteria backward into the skin and cause cysts to form," Pratt says. Squeezing too hard can also cause capillaries to rupture, leaving evidence of broken blood vessels on your face. See a dermatologist to have blackheads extracted, or try removing strips like Biore Deep Cleansing Pore Strips