Canadian Network on HH--not that great

[margiehope]

Was watching "Canada AM" today (on one of our major networks) and heard "new treatment for Hyperhidrosis".

Of course I was interested--until the segment came on. A young man who suffers from HH was featured--his problem increased by the fact that he is a dancer and dance teacher.

The "new" treatment was Botox. Two weeks later it was helping him hugely with axillary HH. The interviewer didn't ask him, or the doctor who did the Botox, some Journalism 101 questions: always works? costs? covered by health plans? lasts permanently?

I'm glad to see any attention given to HH, but wish this had been more thorough, even if only about Botox .::

 

[Jezza]

Another problem with that is that it gives people the idea that HH is a perfectly manageable condition, giving medics and academics reason to not look into causes and improved treatments.

Same thing with tap water ionto; on a lot of sites you read things like effective in 80-90% of the cases, cases where it is not effective are supposedly because it isn't done right...Truth is in many cases it just doesn't work, as you can easily see when you read this site.

Things like that don't help in terms of new HH research being done...Which means HH sufferers keep being overlooked by medicine in general.

For instance; There are almost no studies comparing blood/serum/whatever levels of substances between HH sufferers and 'normal' people, which is really probably one of the easiest and most effective ways to possibly find a cure/treatment. Some substances like neuropeptides like CGRP or VIP have long been identified in almost certainly playing a role in eccrine sweating, so really, how much does it take to take a group of HH sufferers and none HH people and start measuring levels of these substances...? Makes all kinds of sense, but it just isn't being done, which is just really annoying...