For most untrained public speakers, sweaty palms are almost a sure occurrence while delivering a speech.
Yet, generally the problem does not aggravate to a level at which treatment may become necessary.
However, when it does happen, as in the case of a physiological abnormality hyperhidrosis, the patients complain of persistent sweaty palms, high body odor, and soaked armpits.
The condition leaves the patients more vulnerable to social disorders, bringing about social retreat, lack of confidence, emotional problems and depression, in both adolescents and adults.
Sweating is our inbuilt response to excess body heat.
The pores secrete sweat; it spreads over the skin surface, evaporates, and so cools off the body.
The system works in response to a complicated set of controls, which detects temperature rise and consequently signals for an appropriate reaction.
Temperature rise, albeit being the prime one, is not the sole reason we sweat.
We sweat over problems, nightmares, shocks, and any thing that makes us nervous.
Such sweating is under control of our body's 'fight or flight' mechanism that ensues after any incident that makes us feel threatened.
This is linked to the "sympathetic nervous system that becomes hyper active.
By dilating the sweat outpour, the body ensures greater tolerance to heat, so that you can run faster when a big, hyper elephant, or anything like that is chasing you.
What you can start to do which helped me is to observe what is taking place once you start to sweat profusely.
In my case anxiety played a major role.
The body on one way or another comes under stress and the end result is excessive sweating.
Take a serious look at your lifestyle and see if anything you are doing or eating is causing your sweat problem.
Make changes to your diet and observe the results.
To conclude it is always worthwhile no matter what the outcome to improve your health.
This will help you to perform better and your body will be in a better position to function optimally and be under less stress.