Aesthetic Medicine · Body
Hyperhidrosis
Sharply reduces underarm sweating using small injections into the skin. The effect is felt in under a week and lasts six to nine months, without you sweating more elsewhere. One to two sessions a year are usually enough to stay comfortable.
The treatment
What is
Hyperhidrosis?
Hyperhidrosis means sweating far beyond what your body needs to cool itself. It is not a question of hygiene or willpower: the sweat glands are simply receiving too many instructions to work.
The most common form often starts in adolescence, affects specific areas such as the underarms, the palms and the soles, and worsens as soon as you feel stressed, which creates a vicious circle. The consequences are above all social: marked shirts, avoided handshakes, changing clothes several times a day, meetings you dread.
Injecting botulinum toxin into the skin blocks the nerve message telling the glands to produce sweat. Sweating falls sharply where you are treated, and only there. As the area involved is tiny compared with the whole body, your temperature regulation is not disturbed: you carry on sweating normally everywhere else.
At the Petit-Lancy clinic, the consultation begins by ruling out another cause: a thyroid problem, diabetes, infection, menopause, a drug side effect. If you sweat all over, at night, or if it started recently in adulthood, medical investigation is needed before any local treatment. We will refer you.
Underarm treatment is the best documented and the best tolerated. A simple test stains the most active zones so the points can be placed exactly where they are needed. The effect is felt within four to seven days and lasts six to nine months, considerably longer than on the face. One to two sessions a year are usually enough.
We will also tell you plainly what the treatment does not do: it reduces sweating markedly but rarely stops it completely, and it does not change body odour at its source.
Why choose this treatment
- Clear, targeted reduction in underarm sweating
- Effect felt in 4 to 7 days and long-lasting: 6 to 9 months on average
- No excessive sweating shifting elsewhere on the body
- Session of around 30 minutes, you leave immediately
- Day-to-day comfort restored: clothing, meetings, social life
- An alternative to strong antiperspirants, which often irritate the skin
How it works
The treatment
process.
Prior consultation
A prior medical consultation rules out another cause for your sweating. Do not remove hair in the 48 hours beforehand and apply neither deodorant nor antiperspirant on the day. Report any pregnancy, breastfeeding or muscle and nerve condition. If a mapping test is planned, come with clean, dry skin and no cream applied.
Application of the treatment
The area is cleansed, then sometimes stained using a simple test that darkens the places where you sweat most. Once the anaesthetic cream has taken effect, the physician performs small, very superficial injections spaced one to two centimetres apart, around fifteen to twenty points per underarm. Each injection forms a small bleb that settles within minutes.
Post-Procedure Care & Follow-Up
Redness and tenderness are possible for a few hours. No deodorant or antiperspirant for 24 hours, and no exercise, sauna, steam room or hot bath for 48 hours. Do not remove hair for three days. Sweating decreases progressively over the first week. We offer you a review at one month.
Pricing
Detailed pricing
Hyperhidrosis treatment prices at our Geneva centers
- Treatment of both underarms CHF 1 200
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