why do we sweat under our palms and feet?
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Normally, your body works best when it's about 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit (37 degrees Celsius). When your body gets hotter than that, your brain doesn't like it - it wants your body to stay cool and comfortable. And sweat glands are well-developed there @ our palms and feet. If you have excessive sweat, try Drionic. I used to sell this product but now I train people on fitness.
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your feet are the further est away from your heart, it takes longer for the blood flow to get to the tip of your toes and back to your heart, also your feet are low to the ground 99.9% of the time, cant warm if they are in use, wear socks that are cotton, helps trap the heat in ,,,,some times it is do to poor circulation , blood flow....maybe try to talk to your doctor, mite be a flimps, but might be a health problem.
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If your sweaty palms are caused by a physiological problem (i.e. if you aren't just nervous) you can try soaking your hands in tea. It's supposed to narrow or close off the glands in your palms causing them to sweat. If this doesn't solve the problem, go to your doctor and ask for a prescription for Robinul Forte.
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It could be hormonal, perimenopause which is the time before menopause and some women have drastic night sweats during that time.  It could also be a thyroid problem, hypothyroidism makes you feel hot and sweat alot more than normal.    Have you been tested for thyroid, diabetes, and/or lupus?  Autoimmune problems can cause the sweating too.
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It seems that the thicker, keratinous layers of skin on our fingers and toes, which are meant to protect our bodies, absorb water after long exposure to water. The body does not absorb water but, like paper towels or dried beans, the skin does. The water causes the stratum corneum (the dead skin layer mostly made of keratin) on our hands and feet to swell. As it swells it wrinkles because it is attached to other tissues--it doesn't have the freedom to stretch freely.   http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/skin.html
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if they are on your hands or feet, it is build up moister that should have came out as perspiration, it is usually caused by too much pool time, or hot weather.
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b/c the bottom of our hands and feet have an extra thick layer of skin due to the fact that we use these surfaces so much, whereas our skin that has hair on it is thinner b/c it does not endure constant friction. \ntherefore, the palms and soles do not tan/burn
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Sweating (also called perspiration or sometimes transpiration) is the loss of a watery fluid, consisting mainly of sodium chloride (commonly known as salt) and urea in solution, that is secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. Sweat also consist of the chemicals or odorants 2-methylphenol and 4-methylphenol.\n\nIn humans, sweating is primarily a means of temperature regulation. Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to the latent heat of evaporation of water. Hence, in hot weather, or when the individual's muscles heat up due to exertion, more sweat is produced. Sweating is increased by nervousness and nausea and decreased by cold. Animals with few sweat glands, such as dogs, accomplish similar temperature regulation results by panting, which evaporates water from the moist lining of the oral cavity and pharynx.
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The air blowing on the moisture in your skin has a cooling effect much in the same way of the body's built in ac: perspiration.
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Excessive Sweating: Common Causes\n\nenvironmental temperatures (warmth) \nfever, often triggers sweating to cool off the body \nmenopause \noveractive thyroid gland--the hands shake, the hair thins, the skin is smooth, and the pulse is fast \ndiabetics receiving insulin or oral medication may go into a cold sweat when their blood sugar drops too low \nperiodic sweating of sweating at night without an obvious cause may be caused by an underlying infection or malignancy \nemotional or psychological stimulation (being in or thinking about difficult situations) \nexercise \nspicy foods (known as "gustatory sweating") \ndrugs (including antipyretics, some antipsychotics, sympathomimetics, caffeine, morphine, alcohol and thyroid hormone) \nwithdrawal from alcohol or narcotic analgesics
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Some people sweat in different places when they are nervous.  Some get sweaty palms, armpits or forehead.  You get a sweaty bum.  Perfectly natural, I'm sure.  If it bothers you and you want to find the cause or possible cure, see a doctor.  Otherwise......relax.
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I heard that Botox can shrink the pores and lessen excessive sweating. But, I don't know if that applies to hands and feet. You need to talk to a dermatologist, that can make reccomendations or referrals.
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No. the skin is actually the largest organ of the human body and when you sweat you are excreeting waste. This is a very important function of the excretory system and without sweating you could become very sick. Also, sweating is a sort of thermostat. When you get too hot the body sweats, the air hits the water(sweat) and causes your body to feel cooler. So, it's very normal to sweat when it is hot. Now a lot of people sweat more than others and they are actually better off than people that sweat very little. What is important is to shower daily to get the impurities and bacteria off your body from the sweat. This can cause infected sweat glands, hair follicles and just body odor in general. \nNow, exfolliation is a form of removing the outer layer of skin from your body, a lot of girls and women do it to their faces believing the old layer of dead skin cells make you look old. Actually a daily cleansing of the face is really good enough. Witch hazel is cheap, is a natural asstringent and has a PH balancing effect on the face and the pores on the face keeping it in good condition. So it has nothing to do with sweat. Good luck.
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The human body sweats to cool off. If a breeze blows on a wet body, even when it's hot, it cools one down a bit.\n\nIf it's quite hot, going for  a swim in a lake or ocean cools one down.\n\nDry heat is "cooler" than wet heat. If you walk into a very humid but hot room, you will instantly feel much hotter and more uncomfortable, as suddenly, all that humidity makes the heat stifling and keeps the body from cooling itself off, as sweat can no longer evaporate off the body.\n\nGoing into a subterranean dwelling can help, like a cave or halfway buried house.
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Hot springs are caused by pressure upon them by the ground above them. Some hot springs are also noted to have their resoviors be close to the surface and actually heated by the sun.\n\nPress your hand on the desk, with your other hand just rest it on the desk. After a while of pressing one hand you should begin to notice that one palm feels warmer. Imagine if there was water under your palm, it would get warmer too.\n\nBecause the water can often be very deep the pressure of the ground above them can cause large amounts of energy to be released in the form of heat, this is absorbed by the water and then eventually that water rises to the surface through cracks. The result is a nice bath.
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It has to do with humidity.  The higher the humidity level, the more chances you have of sweating and therefore it feels like your deodorant has melted.
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Your sweating may have various causes.  If you have a blood sugar imbalance (low blood sugar - hypoglycemia; high blood sugar diabetes), this may be a cause.  If all other suggestions - including seeing a doctor for hyperhidrosis - don't work, ask the doctor for a fasting blood insulin test to rule out blood sugar imbalance as a cause.