Sweaty hands and feet

What you need:

• vinegar
• Rubbing alcohol
• Foot powder
• doctor

In some situations you automatically start sweating. In the case of the feet, excessive sweating is often due to the wrong footwear, but it can also be due to illness. Unfortunately, the palms of the hands can also tend to sweat more, which is usually even more uncomfortable for those affected.

How to treat sweaty hands

• Rub your hands with rubbing alcohol over and over again. This cools them skin and prevents excessive sweating of the hands.
• Wash your hands with cold water. As a result, the pores contract and sweating subsides for a short time.
• Increased sweating of the palms is usually caused by a disease. A doctor can help you here. For example, he can inject Botox under the skin. The nerve poison paralyzes the nerves and prevents perspiration. However, this procedure is quite painful and has to be repeated every few years.

You can do this against sweaty feet

• You can also have Botox injected against sweaty feet. As with the hands, this is also very painful.


What helps against sweaty hands in yoga? - Recommendations

Sweaty hands can be avoided in yoga postures such as the dog in which you ...

• Make sure you have good shoes. Real leather, for example, absorbs sweat better, plastic shoes, on the other hand, are a real biotope and you literally stand in the wet all day.
• A foot powder dries the feet and soaks up the sweat. But more is needed against heavily sweating feet than a foot powder.
• Be sure to wear cotton socks. In these you do not sweat as much and the cotton absorbs the sweat better.
• You can also rub your feet with vinegar or rubbing alcohol in the morning. It smells a bit strong, but it helps keep your feet from sweating too much.

Against sweaty hands and Feet there is often not much you can do yourself. You can alleviate the problem a little, but if you have abnormal sweating you need the advice of a doctor.