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Excessive sweating, or hyperhidrosis, can rule the lives of some of the millions of people it affects across the world. If you’re one of those people, it can dictate what you do, where you go, even which clothes you wear.

Nowhere else is this more of a problem than when you are at work. No matter what your job, suffering from excessive sweating in the workplace can cause even higher levels of stress and leave you feeling uncomfortable and embarrassed about your problem.

If you work in an office, you probably have to wear a shirt and tie, a shirt thats thin and shows sweat stains easily. If you work in the warehouse, you probably have any number of manual duties that cause you to get over-heated and sweat more.

Starting to sweat get’s you stressed, which means you could sweat even more!

You can spend most of your time worrying about your sweating, which takes your mind off what you should be thinking about. And you probably feel really uncomfortable being around your colleagues in case they notice. Each day you are at work you could be spending most of your time worrying about your problem.

Do any of these sound like the kind of thing you’ve tried just to get through work?

- wearing extra layers under your shirt or overalls

- sneaking off to the washroom to dry your sweat patches with the dryer

- putting a coat or a jumper on in the office, even though it’s the middle of summer

- changing your shirt once, or even twice a day

- constantly applying anti-perspirants to combat the problem

So you probably spend more time worrying about your problem and trying to hide it from your colleagues, than you do focusing on your job and getting your work done.

You probably hadn’t realised how much time you spend worrying about your problem but it can take over your whole day.

A study by the International Hyperhidrosis Society found that in a recent survey of adults, 62 percent find that job-related issues, such as confronting a boss or going on an interview, makes them sweat more than any other circumstances.

The IHHS also found that people who were affected by hyperhidrosis in the workplace were limited to carrying out physical duties 25% of the time. They were also limited 20% of the time in carrying out mental and interpersonal tasks, 17% of the time in time-management and 11% of the time for overal work output.

Excessive sweating not only affects how you feel at work, but also how you are perfoming at work, and this probably hasn’t ever occured to you.

Excessive sweating is not recognised on the same level as other ailments that impact on work, but the IHHS went on to say that it can cause similar workplace performance limitations to those experienced by sufferers of depression, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.

You could always turn the air-conditioning up or try and avoid any manual labour, or try any number of methods to cover up the problem. But wouldn’t it be great to go to work confident in the knowledge that you didn’t have a problem, because it had been cured, naturally and permanently?

Organisations like the IHHS are working to raise awareness of excessive sweating as a problem, in the workplace and in other areas of sufferers lives. There are a range of options out there for people with hyperhidrosis, for more information on one of them see the details below.

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