5 year old - sweats in hands and feet

[Eshaar]

Hi Everyone, my 5 year old son sweats in hands and feet when watching tv and at times doing home work. He is not sweating anywhere else or any other time. Eg. When playing outside or sleeping is not sweating.

This is something new to me as none of us in the family has this. Even for him its been only for couple of months we did not notice this earlier. Initially i thought its nothing. By mistake, I did google it today and now i am worried. Any advice/suggestions/experience, please share.

Note: he has myopia in one eye and doing eye patch. Just adding here as i am not sure if its all interconnected.

I’d see your Doctor about it but just wanted to say my daughter has had this for all / most of her life (she’s now 23) and nothing has ever came of it or been diagnosed as anything other than; she just sweats excessively through her hands and feet.

Hi, sounds like hyperhidrosis. It’s common and not worrying. At that age there wouldn’t be any treatment offered, but as he gets older there are topical roll on solutions that can reduce it, Botox injections (although there are risks with this) and also a therapy where you put your hands/feet into water and a low electrical current is passed through to reduce sweating. But unless it’s particularly excessive it’s probably better not to treat.

I’m a teacher and a girl I used to teach had this, she used to sweat so much that her page would get wet and you couldn’t see her writing. It wasn’t a massive deal we kept a cloth by her desk, she knew it happened and mum and dad spoke to me at parents evening she was 10 at the time. I think it’s a frustrating yet harmless condition, see if the GP can help in any way