Facial Sweating

How can excessive sweating be reduced?

Sweating is one of your body’s ways to reduce its’ temperature. Sweating cools down the body by evaporation which draws heat away from the body thereby reducing your temperature.

Excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis) is more common than previously thought – with 1:20 people in a recent USA study reporting symptoms¹ of excessive sweating. Interestingly only half of patients with hyperhidrosis discuss their symptoms with a health care professional¹ which means that there are a lot of people in the population going untreated.

Book a wrinkle management treatment consultation to meet with a Cityskin treatment specialist and learn all the specifics of this solution.

How do we sweat?

The image below shows a simplified illustration of how we sweat. When our body warms up (e.g. through exercise or fever) or when we experience a ‘fight or flight’ event such as running from a dog the brain sends a signal down the nerve telling the nerve ending to release a chemical called acetylcholine (Ach).

Acetylcholine is a chemical messenger which tells the sweat glands to start producing sweat. Your body then produces sweat at the correct rate to cool the body down. When the body is back to its’ normal temperature or when you have stopped running from that dog the brain stops sending signals to release Ach and you stop sweating.

A wrinkle management treatment consultation will inform you about how we can help to reduce sweating. The diagram below shows what happens after a wrinkle management treatment. This time when the body warms up or you experience a stressful event the brain still sends a signal down the nerve, but the wrinkle management treatment blocks the release of Acetylcholine around the area that has been provided. This prevents the sweat receptors receiving the signal to release sweat and as a result you sweat less.

1. Arch Dermatol Res. 2016; 308(10): 743–749

Which areas of the body can be treated for excess sweating?

Common areas that we treat to reduce sweating include:

• Hairline and forehead sweating
• Nape of the neck
• Upper lip sweating

How to treat excessive facial sweating

Treatment for facial hyperhidrosis can be categorised as conservative and medical treatment. Conservative is changes that you make to your life to reduce symptoms.

Wrinkle management treatments can be used to reduce sweating, which is discussed later in this article.

Reducing facial, forehead and hairline sweating with wrinkle management treatment consultations

At Cityskin we offer wrinkle management treatment consultations to help with facial hyperhidrosis. Book a consultation with one of our treatment experts to learn what you need to know about how this solution works.

Forehead sweating (hyperhidrosis)

To treat forehead sweating we would recommend using wrinkle management treatments scattered over the whole of the forehead muscle. We would treat in a similar manner to when we reduce forehead lines with the same treatment. To treat forehead sweating we provide wrinkle management treatments that are dependent upon the degree of sweating and the strength of the muscle. When treating the forehead, we have to be careful not to drop the brow height, so we always recommend treating the frown at the same time.

Make sure you read our guide to forehead wrinkle management treatment.

Upper lip sweating (hyperhidrosis)

Upper lip sweating can be more difficult to treat – we have to be very careful with the approach to ensure that we reduce sweating without affecting the muscles around the mouth.

We must be very careful and warn patients that they can temporarily make it more difficult to say the word ‘p’ or suck on a straw.

Upper lip sweating treatment lasts approximately 6-8 weeks because we have used a conservative treatment approach.

To learn more about this solution and our treatment approach, book a free new patient consultation.