* 4 or 5 times the amount
of sweat that's normal - or needed - to keep the body cool.
* Sweating that's so excessive that it's embarrassing,
depressing, and prevents you from living life.
Normal
sweat
Hyperhidrosis
sweat
Your body has
4 million sweat glands.
Most
of your sweat glands
are on your hands, feet, face, and (of course) in your armpits.
Messages
from your brain
tell your body "It's getting hot in here! Cool me off with sweat!" But
if you have hyperhidrosis, you keep on sweating no matter what!
Scientists think hyperhidrosis can be passed on from parents to kids through
genetics.
Hyperhidrosis often starts in junior high - as if junior high wasn't hard
enough!
Oh, and by the way, B.O. isn't really caused by sweat. It's caused by bacteria
on your
skin mixing with sweat.
