Published on
​Symptoms and Signs – Differential Diagnosis of Hyperhidrosis
CORTICAL
• Emotional
• Familial dysautonomia
• Congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma
• Epidermolysis bullosa
• Nail-patella syndrome
• Jadassohn-Lewandowsky syndrome
• Pachyonychia congenita
• Palmoplantar keratoderma
HYPOTHALAMIC
Drugs
• Antipyretics
• Emetics
• Insulin
• Meperidine
Exercise
Infection
• Defervescence
• Chronic illness
Metabolic
• Debility
• Diabetes mellitus (DM)
• Hyperpituitarism
• Hyperthyroidism
• Hypoglycemia
• Obesity
• Porphyria
• Pregnancy
• Rickets
• Infantile scurvy
Cardiovascular
• Heart failure
• Shock
Vasomotor
• Cold injury
• Raynaud’s phenomenon
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)
Neurologic
• Abscess
• Familial dysautonomia
• Postencephalitic
• Tumor
Miscellaneous
• Chédiak-Higashi syndrome
• Compensatory
• Phenylketonuria (PKU)
• Pheochromocytoma
• Vitiligo
MEDULLARY
• Physiologic gustatory sweating
• Encephalitis
• Granulosis rubra nasi
• Syringomyelia
• Thoracic sympathetic trunk injury
SPINAL
• Cord transection
• Syringomyelia
CHANGES IN BLOOD FLOW
• Arteriovenous fistula
• Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome
• Glomus tumor
• Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome
Picture
0 Comments