What should you do if your hands and feet sweat a lot? Be careful of this disease!

Do you usually have sweaty hands and feet? If this happens often, then you should be alert to kidney deficiency. People nowadays are prone to kidney deficiency. Stomach heat and emotions can also cause sweating hands and feet. You must seek timely treatment to avoid affecting your health.

1. Does sweating of hands and feet mean kidney deficiency?

Sweating of hands and feet may be related to kidney deficiency. Kidney deficiency is divided into yang deficiency and yin deficiency. Both yang deficiency and yin deficiency have the symptom of excessive sweating. However, sweating caused by kidney deficiency is not only reflected in the hands and feet, but also in other parts of the body, mostly excessive sweating, night sweats, and spontaneous sweating.

Other causes of sweaty hands and feet

Stomach heat: Sweating of hands and feet may also be a manifestation of stomach heat. Sweating of hands and feet caused by stomach heat may also manifest as excessive sweating accompanied by dry mouth, swollen and painful gums, etc.

Fecal accumulation: constipation and large amounts of feces accumulated in the intestines can also cause profuse sweating in the hands and feet, but at the same time it will be accompanied by abdominal distension and pain.

Emotional influence: Tension, excitement, stress or high temperatures in summer can cause abnormal increase in palm sweating. It can also be due to sympathetic nerve damage or abnormal reactions, which increase the secretion of choline acetate and cause the eccrine glands to secrete excessive sweat.

3. The harm of sweating hands and feet

1. Excessive sweating of hands and feet can easily lead to more heat loss in winter, and hands and feet are prone to frostbite. In severe cases, local skin or tissue necrosis and cracking may occur.

2. Sweating of hands and feet seriously affects study, work, and social interaction, especially for people whose sweat has a fishy smell. Generally, over time, they will show a withdrawn, introverted personality, poor communication skills, and lack of social skills.