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 BEWARE
If you are a person with calcium oxalate stone and can't resist the
temptation to eat an occasional strawberry or tomato, then you
should drink additional water for the next day or two
Study
It is claimed that
milk and cheese if taken with food rich in oxalates, lead to the
precipitation of non absorbable calcium oxalate in the intestines
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Hyperhidrosis
 Perspiration
helps the body to stay cool which in most cases is perfectly
natural. People sweat more in warm temperatures, when they
exercise, or in response to situations that make them nervous,
angry, embarrassed, or afraid. But sweating may occur
excessively in some people without such triggers in a condition
called hyperhidrosis.
Hyperhidrosis or diaphoresis is characterized by abnormally
increased perspiration that is a person sweats excessively and
unpredictably in excess of that required for regulation of body
temperature. People with hyperhidrosis may sweat even when the
temperature is cool or when they are at rest. Those with
hyperhidrosis appear to have overactive sweat glands. The
uncontrollable sweating can lead to significant discomfort, both
physical and emotional.
Hyperhidrosis can either be generalized or localized to specific
parts of the body. When excessive sweating affects the hands,
feet, and armpits, it's called primary or focal hyperhidrosis.
In the majority of primary hyperhidrosis cases, no cause can be
found. It seems to run in families. Primary hyperhidrosis is
found to start during adolescence or even before and seems to be
inherited as an autosomal dominant genetic trait.
Primary hyperhidrosis must be distinguished from secondary
hyperhidrosis, which can start at any point in life. If the
sweating occurs as a result of another medical condition, it is
called secondary hyperhidrosis. Conditions that cause second
hyperhidrosis include disorder of the thyroid or pituitary
gland, diabetes mellitus, tumors, gout, menopause, certain
drugs, or mercury poisoning, anxiety conditions, cancer, heart
disease, lung disease, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury,
stroke, tuberculosis or other infections.
Treatments may include antiperspirant like aluminum chloride or
some drugs, Botox treatments and even a minimally-invasive
surgical procedure called Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy (ETS)
may be recommended when other treatments fail which involves
turning off the signals that trigger sweating.
Dietary Dos and Don’ts:
• Drink plenty of water to keep yourself hydrated.
• Eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables to get a good dose of
vitamins and minerals.
• Eat whole grain cereals as it not only provides a good dose of
fiber in your diet but also vitamin B in abundance. You may
include fish, eggs, pulses, legumes, lean meat, carrots and
avocadoes to get vitamin B.
• Use olive oil in your cooking or diet as it is digested more
efficiently in the body thus generating less heat.
• Drink sage tea as it contains a natural antiperspirant called
tannic acid.
• Take enough calcium by incorporating milk and milk products in
your diet as it controls stress and nervousness and hence
prevents sweating.
• Say a big no to caffeine, spicy foods and alcohol as all these
trigger our body temperature thereby causing sweating.
• Avoid garlic and onion as much as you can as onion raises the
body temperature and garlic may give a bad odor to your sweat.
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