Definition
Decreased sweating is a symptom that can take the forms of hypohydrosis (reduced sweating) or anhydrosis (complete absence of sweating). Furthermore, this manifestation can affect only one or more areas of the body.
The diminished sweating can have an impact on the whole organism, as it involves problems of thermoregulation. In the most serious cases, therefore, it can be associated with other symptoms, such as weakness, dizziness, muscle cramps, feeling of excessive heat and redness of the skin.
In most cases, reduced sweating is the result of trauma, infection or skin inflammation. Other times, it depends on the atrophy of the sweat glands, as happens in systemic lupus erythematosus or in Sjögren's syndrome.
The diminished sweating can also derive from the use of some drugs (above all anticholinergics) and from the presence of some endocrine or dermatological pathologies, among which are: amyloidosis, hypothyroidism, ichthyosis, scleroderma, psoriasis, diabetic neuropathy and some forms of dermatitis.
Possible Causes * of decreased sweating
- Amyloidosis
- Dermatitis
- Diabetes
- Hypothyroidism
- Ichthyosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Hashimoto's disease
- Parkinson's disease
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Psoriasis
- Scleroderma
- Sjögren syndrome
