Please briefly tell me about iontophoresis therapy, I sweat a lot so I heard about it but not sure to go for it. When it should be done and what are the consequences, prons and cons.
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Iontophoresis is a physical process in which ions flow diffusively in a medium driven by an applied electric field. A small electric current is applied to an iontophoretic chamber placed on the skin, containing a charged active agent and its solvent vehicle. Another chamber or a skin electrode carries the return current. One or two chambers are filled with a solution containing an active ingredient and its solvent vehicle. The positively charged chamber, called the anode, will repel a positively charged chemical species, whereas the negatively charged chamber, called the cathode, will repel a negatively charged species into the skin. Your sweat glands don't shut off. They sweat even when the circumstances don?t call for it: when they?re in air conditioning, or while they?re sitting and watching television. Primary hyperhidrosis (also called focal hyperhidrosis) causes excessive sweating in the hands, underarms, face, and feet without any apparent reason. People with primary hyperhidrosis generally sweat from a certain type of sweat gland called eccrine sweat glands. These sweat glands make up the majority of the 2-4 million sweat glands in your body. Eccrine sweat glands are particularly numerous on the feet, palms, face, and armpits. When your body is overheated, when you?re moving around, when you?re feeling emotional, or as a result of hormones, then nerves activate the sweat glands. When those nerves overreact, it causes hyperhidrosis.
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