About Severe Underarm Sweating

Everyone sweats. Sweating is our body's way of regulating temperature and cooling itself. But over one million¹ Americans sweat so much that it actually interferes with their daily activities. Severe underarm sweating is a medical condition called severe primary axillary hyperhidrosis. This occurs when overactive sweat glands produce sweat that exceeds the body's normal requirements for cooling, sometimes up to four or five times what is needed.²

Research has found that nearly one million women in the United States suffer from severe primary axillary hyperhidrosis,¹ and to make matters worse for women, our society seems to find excessive sweating less acceptable for women than men.

For anyone that suffers from extreme sweating, this condition can be embarrassing and uncomfortable and even anxiety-inducing. Still, many people that sweat excessively do not even realize that they have a treatable medical condition, or they are too embarrassed to talk to a physician about it, allowing their excessive underarm sweating to go undiagnosed and untreated.

BOTOX^® (Botulinum Toxin Type A) is FDA-appoved for severe underarm sweating when topical agents don't work.

Important Safety Information

You should not be injected if you have an infection at the injection site or are hypersensitive to any of the ingredients. Serious allergic reactions and cardiac events have been rarely reported. If you think you are having an allergic reaction or other unusual symptoms, such as difficulty swallowing, speaking, or breathing, call your doctor immediately.

Side effects include injection-site pain and bleeding, non-underarm sweating, infection, sore throat, flu, headache, fever, neck or back pain, itching and anxiety. Patients with certain neuromuscular disorders such as ALS, myasthenia gravis, or Lambert-Eaton syndrome may be at increased risk of serious side effects.

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¹ Strutton, PhD, MPH, Kowalski, PharmD, MS, Glaser, MD, Stang, PhD. U.S. Prevalence of Hyperhidrosis and Impact on Individuals with Axillary Hyperhidrosis: Results from a National Survey. The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. August 2004, Volume 51, Number 2.
² The International Hyperhidrosis Society. http://www.sweathelp.org/English/PFF_Hyperhidrosis_Definition.asp. Accessed August 10, 2007.

About Severe Underarm Sweating

Research has found that nearly one million women in the United States suffer from severe primary axillary hyperhidrosis,1 and to make matters worse for women, our society seems to find excessive sweating less acceptable for women than men.

Research has found that nearly one million women in the United States suffer from severe primary axillary hyperhidrosis,¹ and to make matters worse for women, our society seems to find excessive sweating less acceptable for women than men.