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54. Hyperhidrosis (Profuse Sweating)

It may be of interest to note that by a surgical procedure, the hyperhidrosis was cured in an 18 year old girl recently by Dr. Peter Goh Min Yi of Raffles Hospital in Singapore.
As per report in MediScience Singapore (2006: 7, p5):

Endoscopic thoracoscopic sympethectomy (ETS) is a surgical procedure that involves the cutting of the nerve associated with the overactive sweat glands.

The rate of success reported in the year 2000, in Annals ol Thoracic Surgery was 97 per cent.
I have now (Palaniappan, 1998, 2000, 2001) established very well that hyperhidrosis occurs because of the imbalance between water consumption and urination.

If a person drinks, say, 3L water daily, and urinates much less (e.g., 2L), then most of the remaining one liter of the water gets out of the body in the form of profuse sweat, otherwise called hyperhidrosis.

Such a sweat will occur even if the person refrains from any physical activity. Often, even the palms and feet of these people get wet with such sweat.

This problem can be doubtlessly cured by (a) increasing the urination (once every hour for about one month (however, a drastic decrease to almost a normal condition can be seen within two weeks or so), and (b) avoiding of all those that favour loss of water through the skin, such as the use of fan at high speed, sweat-promoting exercises, hot sunshine, working near furnaces, etc.

This problem has nothing to do with (a) genetic inheritance, and (b) hormonal imbalance, as has been misconceived by some. It is a question of hyperhydration, that can be corrected without any surgery or medication.

Therefore, in an asthmatic, in the process of curing it, the hyperhidrosis too will get certainly corrected.

See Asthma, Palm Sweating, and Sneeze.

HUMAN DISEASES REDEFINED: Excessive Calcium in Body (Hypercalcaemia)

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53. Hypercalcaemia (Excessive Calcium)( ©: 27.2.2010: Dr.V.M.Palaniappan, Ph.D.)

When excessive amounts of calcium is found in the blood, it is called hypercalcaemia.

Under normal circumstances, any calcium excesses that had entered into the body through foods and drinks would get out of the body through urine, faeces, sweat, menses fluids, and the like.
If a person is going to drink less water, he would not sweat much, and at the same time, he would not void much urine either.

As a result of under-urination, the calcium excesses tend to accumulate in the soft tissues all over the body, making the cells swollen (hypertrophy).

In a person who habitually under-urinates, some amount of excessive calcium is bound to be constantly present in the blood, giving rise to this condition called hypercalcaemia.

When a person eats too much of protein diet, the sulphur containing amino acids dissolve and free some amount of calcium from the bones.

In an under-urinating person, this free calcium could also be found in the blood, raising it to above the normal range.

One good thing about this condition perhaps is the protection this excess calcium could offer against any ‘virus infection’, for calcium is the substance that offers ‘immunity’ to a person.

See Obesity, and Calf Hardness.

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52. Hyperactive

The truly obese people always under-urinate (e.g., 2-4 times daily), and that favours the accumulation of calcium, along with several other substances in their body.

This tends to make the person lazy, lethargic and slow-moving. Their reflex too slows down. In other words, they become hypoactive.

As opposed to the above, those adults who drink abundant water (e.g., about 4 L/day) and void nearly all of it through more than, say, 14 urinations daily, become Skeletal people. Their body would develop hyperacidity.

When a person happens to be in a state of hyperacidity for a prolonged period, he/she becomes very thin. This is precisely why practically all the children who are hyperactive stay very thin all the time.

The rate of heartbeat will be rapid (palpitation) among hyperactive children. That would make them highly tensed and stressed, besides being short-tempered.

Here, most of the required nutrients get leached out of the body. As a result, even the red blood cell count can get reduced, making the transportation of oxygen to the brain difficult.

To rectify this problem, the brain makes the body shiver– similar to exercising, and that increases the speed of blood circulation, thus enhancing increased uptake of oxygen.

The sickness would become worse if the person happens to be eating very poor diet, such as plain rice all the time.

Even 1L of water intake and related liberal urination should be considered too much for children aged 3 or 4.

In this category, most of the calcium, potassium, magnesium, sodium (cooking salt), etc. that are required for the body’s well-being, get leached out in the urine, creating a shortage of such necessities.

This, especially the shortages of salt (sodium chloride) and calcium, in turn, induces the adrenal glands situated above the kidneys, in the Skeletal people, to secrete more of the male sex hormone androgen (among both genders).

The increase in androgen production promotes a rapid heart beat, and that induces the person to be hyperactive, besides giving him/her nervousness, fear, nightmares, short-temperament, tension, stress, etc.

Children, born to mothers who have been drinking water and urinating excessively while being pregnant, also tend to drink plenty of water and urinate likewise, and end up being hyperactive. Often this over-active behaviour appears to be conspicuous in children more than in adults.

Another very important factor that makes the thin people hyperactive is the increased production of thyroxin hormone by the thyroid gland. This happens because of the increased consumption of iodised salt. Iodine in excess will make a person hyperactive.

A reversal of the lifestyle should help improve the behavioural pattern of these hyperactive persons. That will require practising all the so-called ‘undesirable habits’ of the obese people, until the correction is achieved (see Palaniappan, 1998).

In addition, only uniodised salt should be used in all the foods consumed by these people. Iodine-rich cabbage, sea foods, agar-agar jelly, etc. should also be avoided.

The correction procedure would require administration of restricted quantity of water intake (2 L for adults, and relatively less or little for children), and eating nutrient-rich vegetables and fruits (i.e., inclusion of foods and vegetables that are naturally rich in calcium).

Water reduction programme should be gradual. Any drastic decrease would disturb the person’s health in a different way.

See Goitre, Tension & Stress, Palpitation, Short Tempera-ment, and Epilepsy.

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51. Hot flushes (Profuse sweating during menopause)

Hot flushes (or, flashes) refers to profuse sweating in women who are developing menopause, and it tends to continue existing for anything between one to five years.

I have traced the cause for this problem. Once a woman stops her regular menses, calcium, that is usually lost in the menstrual fluid, starts accumulating in the soft tissues of her body (e.g., on face, in breasts, waist, thighs, buttocks, etc).

The blood vessel walls too get hardened because of this calcium accumulation. As a result, the blood ‘tubes’ become narrow, and the blood pressure increases because of this.

Most of the obese women (Obesity Types I – IV) do not release their urinal pressure then and there. They always under-urinate, unlike the Skeletal, Normal and the Perfect women.

As a result, the urine gets absorbed into the blood vessels, so that the liquid waste can be excreted through the sweat pores as sweat.

However, the absorption of urine further increases the liquid volume inside the vessels, and the blood pressure increases a lot more than before.

By right, the very high pressure build-up should rupture the blood capillaries in the brain region, causing bleeding there (cerebral haemorrhage). Such a damage can give rise to strokes.

In order to protect the person from such mishaps, the brain comes to the rescue by creating hot flushes, by means of which the internal liquid pressure will be eased, thus saving the person from stroke and possible death.

The hot flush is almost similar to hyperhidrosis. In other words, when hyperhidrosis occurs in a menopausing woman, it is called hot flush.

Whenever there is evaporation of water, the surface becomes cold. This is why chillness occurs after every hot flush in this kind of women.

Hot flushes are said to occur in about 75% of the women. The remaining 25% of the women do not get this because, they do not withhold their urinal pressure.

The latter 25% women urinate 8 times or more daily. Those who urinate 8-10 times remain in Perfect category, while those urinating 11-13 times remain Thin, and those who do 14 times or more become Skeletal type.

The cure for preventing totally the occurrence of hot flushes in menopausing women is to encourage them to urinate once every two hours for two weeks, then, once every hour for another two weeks. By this time, their hot flush would have totally disappeared.

From then on, they can urinate about 8 times a day, all the time.

See Hyperhidrosis.

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50. Hirsutism (Hair Growth in Unwanted Places)

Male sex hormone called androgen secretes in both men and women in differing amounts.
If excessive androgen secretes, the hair from head tends to drop off, while hair tends to grow in other unwanted parts of the body. This is called hirsutism.
Women often develop mild ‘moustaches’, hair on their arms and legs, and even on chest, at times.
I have clinically observed that teenaged girls consuming synthetic chemicals in the form of either medications, food supplements, or vitamins and minerals, almost certainly develop hirsutism.
The approach appears to be to prevent or subside the problem, rather than trying to rectify it, for a cure does not seem to exist.
See Hair Problems.

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49. Headaches

I have discussed the causes and cure for this problem extensively in my book on Hair Problems, published in 2005.
Any one or more of the following could give headache to a person:

• Foul air due to poor ventilation
• Poisonous gases: fumes from furnaces, mosquito coils, burning of rubbish, etc.

• Several drugs, alcohol, tobacco, wine, histamines, etc.

• Absorption of toxins produced by bacteria that has infected nose,
teeth, sinus, middle ear, pharynx, tonsils, etc.

• Different kinds of fevers

• Inflammation of kidneys due to the retention of nitrogenous substances in the blood, called nephritis

• Bile duct disease with some liver problems

• Rheumatism

• Diabetes

• Anaemia

• Indigestion, called Dyspepsia

• Gastric hyperacidity

• Gastric hypoacidity

• Stagnation of foods in the intestine, called Intestinal Stasis

• Constipation

• Eye problems, including over-strain

• Over-exposure to sunshine, and

• A few more causes not stated here

Correct diagnosis of the cause that is responsible for a constant headache in a person should be done initially.

Upon this, a correction of the error should give a permanent cure to the person concerned.
Normally, the Breathing Exercise taught to the Group Therapy patients works wonders by totally eradicating headaches.

I have described this method to some extent in my book on obesity (Palaniappan, 1998).

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