| © 2001-2010, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Hyperhidrosis_1_040606 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | HYPERHIDROSIS | Category: | clinical sign / demonstration | ||
| Body Site: | hand / palm | Age: | 14 years | ||
| Contributor: | Kosman Sadek Zikry, MD | ||||
| Description: | sweat dripping from hands | ||||
| Comments: | This adolescent girl had chronic hyperpidrosis of the palms and soles. Although stresss worsened the sweating, she had increased sweating of the palms and soles most of the day. | ||||
| © 2001-2010, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Hyperhidrosis_3_030420 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | HYPERHIDROSIS | Category: | factitial / self Induced disorders / psychodermatosis | ||
| Body Site: | sole / foot | Age: | 16 years | ||
| Contributor: | Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD | ||||
| Description: | excessive sweating | ||||
| Comments: | This 16-year-old girl complained of excessive sweating of her palms,soles and axillae induced especially by emotional stress for the last several years.The hyperhidrosis was absent during sleep and she was otherwise healthy. She improved with reassurance, oral tricyclic antidepressants, and topical aluminium chloride 20 percent applied at bed time and washed in the morning with baking soda. | ||||
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| © 2001-2010, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Hyperhidrosis_2_030420 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | HYPERHIDROSIS | Category: | factitial / self Induced disorders / psychodermatosis | ||
| Body Site: | palm | Age: | 16 years | ||
| Contributor: | Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD | ||||
| Description: | excessive sweating | ||||
| Comments: | This 16-year-old girl complained of excessive sweating of her palms,soles and axillae induced especially by emotional stress for the last several years.The hyperhidrosis was absent during sleep and she was otherwise healthy. She improved with reassurance, oral tricyclic antidepressants, and topical aluminium chloride 20 percent applied at bed time and washed in the morning with baking soda. | ||||
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| © 2001-2010, DermAtlas | Image Name: | Hyperhidrosis_1_030420 | File Type: | jpg | |
| Diagnosis: | HYPERHIDROSIS | Category: | factitial / self Induced disorders / psychodermatosis | ||
| Body Site: | palm | Age: | 16 years | ||
| Contributor: | Shahbaz A. Janjua, MD | ||||
| Description: | excessive sweating | ||||
| Comments: | This 16-year-old girl complained of excessive sweating of her palms,soles and axillae induced especially by emotional stress for the last several years.The hyperhidrosis was absent during sleep and she was otherwise healthy. She improved with reassurance, oral tricyclic antidepressants, and topical aluminium chloride 20 percent applied at bed time and washed in the morning with baking soda. | ||||
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