Hyperhidrosis: Plantar (Foot)

It is an uncontrolled increased sweating in the area of feet. Patients always feel dampness in the area of feet and lateral surface of ankle joint.

This process usually goes along with bacterial and fungus floras making patients and people around them feel objectionable odour (osmidrosis). Dampness in the area of feet leads to skin irritation, maceration and dermatitis. If there is no adequate treatment and medical supervision, microbial and fungous processes with the lapse of time affect skin and nail plates. It in its turn leads to body intoxication and visceral injuries. To prescribe an adequate treatment, it is very important to make a correct diagnosis, as there is a possibility of secondary hyperhidrosis. It means the presence of some underlying disease which can declare itself with an increased sweating in the area of lower limbs and other parts of body (insular diabetes, tuberculosis, tumour diseases, hypoglycaemia etc).

Secondary hyperhidrosis becomes generalized and has its own peculiarities. Therefore, it is very important for doctors treating primary hyperhidrosis to examine their patient in detail and if necessary to recommend their patients further consultations with other specialists.

While performing diagnostics of primary hyperhidrosis, doctors need to take into account that the majority of plantar hyperhidrosis cases goes along with primary axillary and palmar hyperhidrosis. Therefore, it is necessary to perform a complex examination and treatment.