IMPACT OF PALMAR HYPERHIDROSIS ON PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE: AN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY AMONG MILITARY PERSONNEL DURING EXERCISE

Abstract

Palmar hyperhidrosis, whose main symptom is heavy abnormal sweating on palm in a very short period, is a type of idiopathic disease. With the purpose of appraising the influence of palmar hyperhidrosis to soldier out of numerous aspects, we conducted an epidemiological investigation and analysis into the officers and soldiers participating in a certain exercise. We complied a 17-question-included Self - Rating Questionnaire On palmar hyperhidrosis with our own for this investigation, and there were 3096 subjects participating in. Then the outcomes showed that A. The participants were short of understanding on palmar hyperhidrosis (there were 13.0% of the participants aware of their palmar hyperhidrosis, 30.4% inkling it, 55.7% not aware of it and 1.0% of the other cases.); B. Over half amount of the participants were suffering from palmar hyperhidrosis (there were 46.0% of the subjects with no sweating on their palm, 50.1% with slightly sweating, 3.0% with medially and 0.9% with heavily.); C. The causes of palm sweating were also multiple-factor-dependent (because of exercise (54.7%), high temperature (41.4%) and emotional stress (30.2%).); D. Prevalence of the palmar hyperhidrosis in our participants didn’t run in families (only 2.2% of the respondents had familial hyper sweating, 19.3% were not aware of it, and 77.2% had no familial hyper sweating.); E. In terms of the sweat part, proportion of body sweat was 35.2%, the head and face sweat 33.5%, the feet sweat 24.9%, the others sweat 24.85, and proportion of armpit was sweat 20.0%; F. Those respondents were affected in different aspects respectively (26.9% in study, 22.5% in daily life, 20.4% in competition, 19.6% in communication and 18.3% in training.); G. Majority of the respondents wanted to get rid of palmar hyperhidrosis (73.6% of the respondents wanted a remedy, 10.7% of them were not sure, 10.7% of them neglected it and the 5.1% was the other.); H. The gender difference of respondents was a key reason for the notable distinction in the survey results of multiple questions. Health and relevant authorities should pay sufficient attention to the soldier palmar hyperhidrosis.