Botox Injections

Botox Injections Against Sweating or Drooling

Have you ever thought about Botox injections for sweating or drooling?

Sweating is a normal reaction to some conditions, for example heat or exercising, in fact it helps to cool down the body temperature. Sweating in those conditions is completely normal and “socially accepted”. Some people though sweat excessively in normal conditions or drool. This is called hyperhidrosis and apart from drooling which obviously happens in the mouth, it involves sweating under the arms, on the hands or feet for and may be very embarrassing if it happens in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Which are the most common treatments for hyperhidrosis?

  • The first and most common is use of antiperspirants, but is normally not very effective.
  • Surgical solutions include the removal of sweat glands but it’s a very invasive solution and can lead to complications like any surgical treatment.
  • Severing the sympathetic nerves linked to the sweat glands. This solution, while effective, could lead the patient to start sweating in other areas.
  • Block the sweating gland with small electric currents. The problem of this treatment is that it has to be repeated often over time.


Nowadays there is a new and revolutionary solution to treat excessive sweating. Botox injections for sweating. Botox injections are injections of Botulin type A toxin taken locally (no widespread side effects). This toxin paralyzes the part of the body where is applied; apply it in the area of the sweat glands and it will block them. One session can last up to one year. This has helped many people, embarrassed about theirhyperhidrosis. Botox injections for sweating or droolin can be the solution you were waiting for.

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How to Find a Botox Injections’ Specialist

Finding the right doctor to get Botox injections is not an easy task. There is plenty of options but, due to the nature of the procedure, risky as all medical procedures can be, you may want to entrust to an expert professional.

The first thing you have to do is find names of known Botox injections’ specialists. There are two main ways to get names: Ask you friends who already got injections and search for names in search engines (e.g. Google).

Your friends can give you a disinterested opinion about the doctor that treated them, since they’ve experienced first-hand what it was like. Trust them more than somebody unknown or a page in the internet. Furthermore if the friend you’re asking lives in the same city as you he will probably recommend a doctor in that city, so it will be easier for you to have an appointment with the doctor.

If you search on Google for doctors try first adding the name of your city, it will be a great time saver to find a doctor near you. Search sites and forums and look for opinions and prices, go beyond simple promotional sites.

When you’ll have a list of five or six doctors, set an appointment with them. If possible bring with you a friend who already has Botox injections, he will know better than you which are the key-questions to ask. After every appointment note down your impressions, the doctor’s attitude (professional, friendly, rude etc.), when you are finished it will be easier for you to take a decision reading your notes.

I hope this will help you in your quest for the best Botox injections‘ specialist!

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The Medical Use of Botox Injections

Botox injections are mostly known around the world for its cosmetic use. It is highly effective to reduce crow feet, glabellar lines and frown lines. What most of the people don’t know is that Botox has great appliance also for medical use. Strangely enough, Botox injections have been used in medical treatments for more than five decades and for cosmetic treatments have been approved by the Food&Drug Administration only in 2002.


The major uses of Botox injections in non-cosmetic medicine are:
  • Excessive muscles contractions such as:
    • Cervical dystonia
    • Strabismus
    • Blepharospasm
  • Excessive sweating or drooling


There are some other uses that are being studied such as migraine and arthritis relief but their effectiveness is not proven yet.

Excessive muscle contractions can be the result of cerebral palsy or genetic nervous diseases while the cause of cervical dystonia is not known although the area of the brain involved has been identified. Contractions may be really painful and debilitating. Moreover the movement are very limited by the contractions. The same principle applied by cosmetic (paralyze the muscle to limit contractions) is useful to treat this diseases. This applies tostrabism too because it involves the eye muscles. Blepharospasm is excessive blinking and can be treated the same way.


Excessive sweating and drooling are caused by the same glands, the axillary ones. Botox injections can be used to reduce the secretions of such glands. We will talk about this more in details in a future article.

The effect of Botox injections start seven to ten days after the treatment and generally lasts three or four months. One of the major concerns is that the body could generate antibodies and stop the effect of the botulin toxin. One of the possible solution is distancing the Botox injections and use as little medicine as possible.

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