It is quite common for people to sweat after jogging a few miles or after a heavy workout in the gym. This is a natural process to cool the body. Your body will throw out some water, urea, lactate, sodium chloride and some more minerals using the sweat glands. For some people perspiration may happen even in cool atmospheric conditions. This is known as hyperhidrosis or excessive sweating.

When the nervous system responsible for controlling sweat does not work properly this kind of problem is seen. Excessive sweating may happen all over the body or on some parts only. Your body has close to 5 million sweat pores spread all over the body.

If you see this problem to be of mild nature you can try using some simple deodorants that have aluminum chloride to stop excessive sweating. Alternately buy some wipes that are coated with aluminum chloride byproduct.

If your hyperhidrosis gets severe then it is best to visit a doctor and get proper medical advice. Depending upon the location and severity of the problem you may be recommended a treatment. Some common options that are used are - botox injections, oral antibiotics for nerve control, iontophoresis and surgery.

Surgery is performed as a last option because it is expensive. Many of the new surgical methods allow you to get back to work in a day itself thus reducing the recovery time drastically. Surgery either clamps the nerve so that the sweat signals don't travel to the sweat glands or alternately the nerve is totally deactivated by removing it completely.

In the recent past some new natural techniques to stop excessive sweating have appeared in the market. Some of these remedies have produced good results. If may be worthwhile to look at these remedies before you jump on to surgery.