Laser for Hyperhidrosis?

There have been reports that ultrasound or laser can help hyperhidrosis. The challenge i see for both techniques is that you have be able to provide selective injury to the undersurface of the skin without causing a full-thickness injury. Axillary shaving where you physically excise and remove the sweat glands without injuring the skin has been shown to be highly effective in providing a permanent reduction to armpit sweating.

This procedure was described recently and I consider it experimental. It has been done by doctors in the Whitely Clinic in London, and is in my opinion, not considered standard of care in the U.S. Consider it like laser liposution 5 years ago in the U.S. It was being used as a marketing tool as it is chic to use lasers for everything, sometimes even if efficacy has not been proven. There is only case reports about this treatment strategy in the scientific hyperhidrosis literature. A case... more

Hypersecreting sweat glands of the armpits have been treated with topical medications such as aluminum chloride. Other cases have been treated with BOTOX inections. Thoracoscopic Sympathectomy involves cutting nerves in the chest that cause the excessive sweating. For decades surgical removal with curretage has helped those with excessive axillary sweating. Liposuction of the sweat glands also is effective. The liposuction is delivered upward to the glands and not... more