Drug-induced hyperhidrosis and hypohidrosis: Incidence, prevention and management

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Hypohidrosis 100%
• Hyperhidrosis 89%
• Sweating 79%
• Incidence 31%
• Pharmaceutical Preparations 27%
• Tricyclic Antidepressive Agents 21%
• Cholinergic Antagonists 20%
• Neuroeffector Junction 16%
• Heat Exhaustion 16%
• Muscarinic M3 Receptors 13%
• Heat Stroke 13%
• Drug Substitution 13%
• Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors 13%
• Embarrassment 12%
• Pharmacology 12%
• Body Temperature Regulation 12%
• Sweat Glands 12%
• Sympathetic Ganglia 11%
• Muscarinic Antagonists 11%
• Cholinesterase Inhibitors 10%
• Heat-Shock Response 10%
• Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors 10%
• Muscarinic Receptors 10%
• Salivary Glands 9%
• Acetylcholine 8%
• Hypothalamus 8%
• Opioid Analgesics 8%
• Mouth 7%
• Water 6%
• Skin 5%
• Therapeutics 3%

Chemical Compounds

• Drug 34%
• Anticholinergic 27%
• Tricyclic Antidepressant Agent 26%
• Heat 20%
• Acetylcholine 19%
• Antimuscarinic 14%
• Pharmacologic Agent 13%
• Parasympathomimetic Agent 11%
• Cholinesterase Inhibitor 11%
• Serotonin 10%
• Cooling 8%
• Dose 7%
• Substitution Reaction 5%
• Reduction 4%