Diagnosis and treatment of primary hyperhidrosis

Abstract

Primary hyperhidrosis is a common disease that significantly impairs social functioning of people affected. Available methods of treatment are either relatively ineffective or linked with uncomfortable side effects. Methodology of reversing or mitigating the effects is difficult and expensive, and moreover not always effective. Thus, proper classification for procedure and availability of wide range of therapeutic alternatives, which allow for adjustment of treatment form to characteristics and needs of the patients during pre- and postoperative period, is extremely important.