Heavy sweating is not always the result of a bad condition

Increased perspiration does not always express bad condition
Sweat formation cools the body when exposed to heat or stress, but some people are more likely to perspire than others. Here, increased perspiration in sports is often rated as a sign of poor conditions, but this is only partially correct. According to Maja Hofmann of the Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology at the Charité Berlin, some athletes sweat more than others, even with the same level of training, because they have a higher number of sweat glands, reports the news agency "dpa".

Due to the different number of sweat glands, a difference in the delivered amount of sweat between two athletes at the same training level can occur, explains the expert. So the one just shows the first beads of sweat on his forehead, when the clothing of the other is already completely sweaty, although they have an approximately same condition. In untrained people, however, sweat formation generally starts faster under short-term stress than with well-trained people.

The condition has only limited influence on the formation of perspiration. (Image: Halfpoint / fotolia.com)

Increased sweating of untrained persons after short exposure
After a 100-meter run was observed in untrained runners in any case, a stronger sweat than athletically active people, which is related to the poorer condition, reports the news agency "dpa". For an untrained body is more demanding and heated by the run, which brings increased sweating for cooling with it. Excessive sweating, however, can also occur independently of physical exertion, if, for example, by "stress or by unusually high activity of the autonomic nervous system more nerve impulses are sent to the sweat glands, so that those affected sweat even in cold weather," reports the German Dermatological Society. Here, the sweating has more of a pathological character and is in no way related to the condition or the training status. (Fp)