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OTHER NAMES
- Diminished Sudoración,
- Scarce sudoración.
DEFINITION
The anhidrosis is a medical term that defines the decrease or sudoración absence before stimuli of effort, stress or heat. As the evaluation of the perspiration is very subjective, it can happen unnoticed until a very intense effort or extreme heat does not provoke anything of sudoración.
As the sudoración is a way of losing heat, the absence of the same one in the totality of the body can be considered to be a serious problem by hipertermia danger. If the absence of the sudoración is partial the problem is not serious.
CAUSES
- Illnesses neurological (syndrome of Guillain-Barre)
- Illnesses of the glands sudoríparas
- Congenital illnesses (displasia ectodérmica)
- Some treatments with medicines
- Burns
- Dehydration
TREATMENT
The treatment, if an anhidrosis is endured, is to be careful with situations of excessive heat. If the debit risk exists to drink a lot of liquids, to be covered of the sun or heat source, to give him cold showers or the skin is wetted with water and of course to avoid the exhibitions to the heat.
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