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You should remember before going to the specialist before hyperhydrosis treatment to shave and clean the affected area. The area should be shaved prior to injection, it may not be important but it would be hard to identify which part is severely affected or not. The area should be clean to see which part is sweating more and which part to concentrate on.
You will lay down your head on your arms for us to be able to determine accurately which part needed most hyperhydrosis treatment one or more test may be performed.
A Starch Iodine test will be performed where an iodine solution will be applied to the sweaty area and starch will be sprinkled over the solution. The starch iodine combination will turn dark blue color which indicates what area has excess sweat production.
Paper Test is using a using a special paper is placed on the affected area to absorb sweat and weighed to determine the amount of sweating that occurs.
Then injecting botulinum Toxin where the specialist puts numbing cream and let it stay for 15 minutes. Our specialist will usually do small 20 injections on the skin to cover the whole region. You will feel slightly bruised.
After the hyperhydrosis treatment you can go home and resume with your normal activities.
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