Sweating knowledge

For most of those affected, hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating) already begins during puberty. Many of our clients are parents who want to help their children prevent their underarm sweating. They fight for their children (yes, it is often like a battle), for whom sweat patches are naturally a big problem already at school. Whereas this time is already difficult enough for the youngsters.

BUT! Very often this extreme sweating stops again after puberty. However, you don't know beforehand who it will stop with.

There are also people who start sweating more later. For me it was a constant increase in the amount of sweat - with every professional development. Until I invented laulas® and talked openly about my underarm sweat - as I am doing now. This not only immediately prevented my sweat stains, but also significantly reduced my sweat quantity, but more about that later. 

Here, medicine provides many answers and causes. Countless websites list the answers. On our "Hyperhidrosis" page, you will also find the most important causes that can lead to heavy sweating.

Medicine distinguishes between eccrine sweat glands, which produce sweat, and apocrine sweat glands. As scent glands, these then provide our respective "scent". There are big differences in scent, our sweat smell. Personally, I don't have an odour problem, despite my large amounts of sweat. However, I have met clients who have to change their clothes several times a day because their sweat smell is very strong and also very unpleasant.

Personally, I have tried many, many therapies and asked everyone from doctors to faith healers why I sweat and what I can do about it. I have described this on the page "my story". 
There is a basic distinction between secondary hyperhidrosis (due to an underlying disease) and primary hyperhidrosis (your doctor can't find an underlying disease or disorder).

My very personal diagnosis for my sweating: Whenever I "think" I am overworked, my underarm sweat and also head sweat starts to flow. As a former sales manager with representative tasks and a specialist lecturer, I have experienced countless situations in which I had to experience embarrassing sweat attacks. And believe me: I was neither professionally nor rhetorically overwhelmed. But it happened anyway because my psyche controlled it that way.

Again and again I hear in conversations with clients, and it is no different with me, "after work my sweating stops". Our work and also special occasions like weddings increase our sweating enormously. My armpit sweat then flows in streams. And I didn't even need a difficult meeting to do that. I sweat even when I'm sitting alone in the office. Maybe it's always the subliminal fear of doing something wrong, of supposedly not being good enough, that causes my sweat stains. As I said, this is my personal sweat diagnosis - which is almost always answered with "it's the same with me".

We hyperhidrotics (that's what we are called in technical jargon) do not sweat because the sun is shining outside and it is hot. We sweat because "emotional" situations stimulate our sweat flow. It doesn't matter whether it's winter or summer. "I sweat even in the freezer" - is one of my statements. And that's not just a saying. In my younger years as a salesman, I led company tours that included 5 minutes in a -25 degree cold freezer. My sweat stains grew there, too.

So much is written about the possible physical causes of excessive sweating, but almost never about the psychological causes. Yet by far most of us who are affected sweat out of fear. Basically, fear always arises when there is a danger of losing something. Fear of loss. A job, a loved one, privileges, to name but a few. All people have these fears. For some, it shows itself through excessive sweating.

But what fear of loss do we have when we sweat? After decades of countless sweats of my own, I see it in the perceived overload. Fear of not being able to cope with what is happening. And thus fear of losing something through embarrassing sweat stains. Loss of reputation as a professional, leader, applicant... And this fear then prevents or slows down our development. Just as every fear inhibits development. "He can't do it, he doesn't know it, he's out of his depth, he has something to hide, he has...."

Even though this is almost never true, it shouts inside us. Overheating due to supposed excessive demands is the result and our body starts to cool down - the sweat flows. Even if we are optimally prepared, competent and also not rhetorically untalented. There is fear of situations where we stand on a stage. Whether in a meeting, at a job interview, at a private party, a lecture, at an important appointment. The sweat flows, even though we are very good at it all.

And with the flow of sweat grows the fear of bigger and bigger sweat stains. Here it is, the so often called vicious circle. Many sufferers lose the problem of excessive sweating after puberty. Why? Because this time in our lives is probably particularly marked by new things, the unknown and the pressure of wanting to prove oneself, of having to prove oneself. And others lose their sweating only when they get older and approach retirement. Then, too, you no longer have to prove something to the world and to yourself so often. The daily challenges become fewer and fewer.

Many sufferers will recognise themselves in these lines, but what to do? How to solve this problem? Honestly, I can't give you a prescription. And I have tried so many things. Who can conjure away our deep fears that work so subliminally. There would be no excessive sweating if a psychologist could take away these fears.

What we can do is prevent the visible sweats that we are all so afraid of.
With this in mind, the laulas® anti-sweat shirt with the exchangeable absorbent inserts was created in 2008.
My sweat stains have not disappeared, but they have become significantly less, just like the amount of sweat.

When the sweats subside, so does our fear of them.
Because laulas® does not allow sweat stains.

Only a doctor can give you further information and help. Only general information and the own experiences of a person affected can be described here.