Screenshot_2024-06-06_at_6.50.38_PM.pngAsset-7q2.pngHyperhidrosis is a serious medical condition characterized by excessive, uncontrollable sweating and the International Hyperhidrosis Society is the only global non-profit organization dedicated entirely to improving the lives of those affected by it.

We are your source for reliable, up-to-date information about hyperhidrosis treatments and research. We're also here to provide you with understanding and support. If your life is being ruined by sweating - you are NOT alone. Studies show that hyperhidrosis is common, severe, and emotionally damaging. 

Research shows that nearly 5% of the world's population suffers from excessive sweating or hyperhidrosis. That's right, 385 MILLION people are struggling with extreme sweating -- just like you!

Of course, no one's hyperhidrosis is exactly the same. Some people fill their shoes with sweat, some have dripping no-handshakes-please palms, some sweat through their shirts, others sweat through their jeans, and most have a combination of sweaty body areas to contend with. Regardless of whether you sweat dramatically on your head or your toes or anywhere in between, we know the embarrassment, anxiety, and crippling effects are real and we want to help.

As the only independent, global, non-profit advocacy and education organization serving the hyperhidrosis community, we encourage you to use this website to get smarter about excessive sweating. Read, print, participate, download, and sign-up today.

While you are doing that, we'll be running medical education courses in hyperhidrosis to help healthcare providers provide the best hyperhidrosis care possible, supporting new hyperhidrosis treatment research, talking to journalists around the world to encourage empathy and awareness, providing you with useful news alerts, and applying for grants so we can keep going. 

Here are a few of the useful things you'll find on the following pages: comprehensive treatment option information, U.S. insurance codes, hyperhidrosis clinical trials recruiting now, a Clinician Finder, an award-winning free blog  dedicated to sweat news, and amazing product discounts on the most useful sweat-management products. Your sweat is nearly always with you. We want to be there too.

Feeling the love? Share it! We are stronger when we work together. Donate today to help us find a cure and increase public awareness. Yes, tomorrow CAN be better than today. 

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Hyperhidrosis is a serious medical condition characterized by excessive, uncontrollable sweating and the International Hyperhidrosis Society is the only global non-profit organization dedicated entirely to improving the lives of those affected by it.

We are your source for reliable, up-to-date information about hyperhidrosis treatments and research. We're also here to provide you with understanding and support. If your life is being ruined by sweating - you are NOT alone. Studies show that hyperhidrosis is common, severe, and emotionally damaging. 

{loadposition tower} Research shows that nearly 5% of the world's population suffers from excessive sweating or hyperhidrosis. That's right, 385 MILLION people are struggling with extreme sweating -- just like you!

Of course, no one's hyperhidrosis is exactly the same. Some people fill their shoes with sweat, some have dripping no-handshakes-please palms, some sweat through their shirts, others sweat through their jeans, and most have a combination of sweaty body areas to contend with. Regardless of whether you sweat dramatically on your head or your toes or anywhere in between, we know the embarrassment, anxiety, and crippling effects are real and we want to help.

As the only independent, global, non-profit advocacy and education organization serving the hyperhidrosis community, we encourage you to use this website to get smarter about excessive sweating. Read, print, participate, download, and sign-up today.

While you are doing that, we'll be running medical education courses in hyperhidrosis to help healthcare providers provide the best hyperhidrosis care possible, supporting new hyperhidrosis treatment research, talking to journalists around the world to encourage empathy and awareness, providing you with useful news alerts, and applying for grants so we can keep going. 

Here are a few of the useful things you'll find on the following pages: comprehensive treatment option information, U.S. insurance codes, hyperhidrosis clinical trials recruiting now, a Clinician Finder, an award-winning free blog  dedicated to sweat news, and amazing product discounts on the most useful sweat-management products. Your sweat is nearly always with you. We want to be there too.

Feeling the love? Share it! We are stronger when we work together. Donate today to help us find a cure and increase public awareness. Yes, tomorrow CAN be better than today. 

 How many different lotions do you have in your bathroom? I count 16 in mine, including 4 different kinds of sunscreen (which are getting a lot of use these days). As great as my lotions are, none pack the same punch as Botox, but someday that could change.

Anterios, Inc. (New York) has a new product similar to Botox  in the midst of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) medicine-approval process. “ANT-1207” is a Botox-ish skin lotion that takes just 5-10 minutes to apply in a physician’s office, where it’s massaged into the skin by a doctor (or perhaps a physician’s assistant or nurse) wearing gloves. The lotion is currently being tested as a treatment for sweaty armpits (underarm hyperhidrosis or axillary hyperhidrosis), wrinkles, acne, and other conditions for which OnabotulinumtoxinA injections (Botox®) are already FDA-approved. In studies so far, involving 500 volunteers, ANT-1207 has been shown to work as an excessive sweating treatment, with results lasting for six months.

According to Anterios’ President and CEO Jon Edelson, M.D., the easy in-office application of ANT-1207 could improve botulinum’s “accessibility and acceptance” as a hyperhidrosis treatment because it’s “comfortable and convenient” for both patients and doctors. Edelson says a botulinum skin lotion could represent “great improvement in the treatment of hyperhidrosis,” largely because current forms have the “drawback” of injections, which Edelson says are “time-consuming” for the physician and “uncomfortable” for the patient. Currently the product is being studied for the treatment of only underarm hyperhidrosis, but it may have potential uses for other sweaty body areas in the future says Edelson. “We’d need to do studies to demonstrate that,” says Edelson, “and we don’t want to put the cart before the horse.”

Of course, the process of getting a new medicine approved by the FDA for general use by doctors takes a long time. This new anti-sweating, anti-wrinkle, and anti-acne Botox-like skin lotion could still be years away from being available from your local dermatologist. 

But don’t worry, in the meantime, if you need to stop sweating NOW there’s already a great selection of treatments to choose from that are FDA-ok’d and proven to work. These include:

Use our Physician Finder to find doctors near you who treat hyperhidrosis and doctors who have been trained by International Hyperhidrosis Society experts.

Watch your e-mail for future updates on ANT-1207 and other new treatments for excessive sweating, and give yourself a monthly reminder to check for new clinical research trials to help review innovative treatments. Hint: there's one opening very soon!!

When the International Hyperhidrosis Society was founded in 2003, there were only a handful of potential treatments for the largely misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and often stigmatized condition of excessive sweating (hyperhidrosis). In the last decade, so much exciting progress has been made to better the lives of those who live with too much sweat. We can’t wait to see what the next decade will bring! I better make space in my bathroom.