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17
Feb
2015
Miradry Is Life Changing for Hyperhidrosis Sufferers
Lorna was Editor of Consulting Room (), the UK's website, from 2003 to 2021.
miraDry® is a safe, proven, FDA-cleared for sweat. It is the only FDA-cleared procedure that a of in a completely way.
delivers precisely electromagnetic energy to the region where the underarm eccrine glands reside, which heats the sweat glands and eliminates them for good. The device won The Award for Product Innovation at the Aesthetic Awards 2014.
Dr Carolyn Jacob has authored a paper on the development of the miraDry® system and it at clinical around the globe. I caught up with her to find out more:
What are your experiences and your with using the system?
I’m the Director of Chicago Cosmetic Surgery & in Chicago, Illinois, and we’ve had the device since of 2012. The number of that come to us now, because of hyperhidrosis, has increased by 300% since we obtained the device.
We treat about 15 patients a month, and need two treatments, spaced apart by three months, to have about a 90% in the amount of sweat that they have.
I find it absolutely to how many people are out there with this who don’t seek help until they find out on the internet that there’s now a that can give them a lasting result.
Do you think that perhaps hyperhidrosis is the new acne; by that, I mean that people can suffer from acne for a very long time and never realise that they can find a solution.
Not as many people have hyperhidrosis as have acne. About 30 million it’s estimated in the United States have hyperhidrosis, however, the amount to which it them is greater, it is considered more than having acne, so many people have acne, and it’s become a little bit more commonplace. This (hyperhidrosis) seems to be more like a silent type of condition.
Do you find that you’re seeing a broader range of patients, men as well as women, with differing age groups and social ?
Absolutely. So the age range for our patients that have used spans from 13 years old to 72.
As we know a lot of people with hyperhidrosis develop the at and there’s one young girl who was given by her mother to have the treatment done because she’s an and there was a lot of with the sweating. So she’s doing much better, which is wonderful.
Most of the patients are 25 and 50 years old and most of them are new to our . There are 60% women and 40% men. So it’s something that a lot of men have an issue with and this is a treatment that they definitely want to seek out so they can stop their clothing.
We know that there are other treatments available for hyperhidrosis, such as antiperspirants, botulinum toxins and iontophoresis. What are the advantages that miraDry brings to patients that aren’t available with the other treatment ?
So other for hyperhidrosis are temporary, or they may have adverse effects, like the topical may cause some or rashes to the skin.
() injections are not covered by health insurance most of the time (in the USA), and it’s very expensive because it has to be repeated every six to nine months it wears off. Plus it does require needle injections and a lot of people don’t want to have repeat needle .
There are pills that one can use and the pills do work, however for some people they have to take such a high dose of the pills they start to get dry mouth and dry eyes and that’s a problem because then they have more side effects that don’t make it worth taking the medication.
With the sensor, it’s not invasive, it’s a treatment that can be done on an basis within 60 to 90 minutes.
Patients have a little bit of swelling for maybe three days or so, but other than that they can do their normal activities.
We just want them to take it easy for a few days afterwards and maybe take some Ibuprofen, but mostly they are back to work and they don’t have a big amount of with this and it’s lasting.
So once they’ve had the done, after two treatments, if they have that 90% it’s going to be because you can’t these sweat glands.
And you don’t need them either, they’re over-active sweat glands, so just so you know they will sweat normally everywhere else, and you will be able to regulate your body temperature, these are for people who are really sweat bothered or have four to five times the amount of perspiration produced in their underarms.
Could you briefly explain the mode of action of the energy that you’re delivering and how that works?
Just like your at home, which heats up water to make your tea, water absorbs the microwave energy because it has a molecule, one side is positive and one side is .
The energy travels across those molecules, they flip back and forth and the rapid or back and forth of the molecules creates heat. If you can get that heated up, just like you would when you’re heating your water for your tea in the microwave, to a certain degree it’s going to start destroying the tissue that contains water.
the tissue that contains water is the eccrine glands or the sweat glands. They’re able (with the miraDry® device) to put this energy right at the base of the lower part of the skin, the dermis, right where it reaches the subcutaneous OnabotulinumtoxinAAbobotulinumtoxinAIncobotulinumtoxinAPrabotulinumtoxinALetibotulinumtoxinARimabotulinumtoxinBHyaluronic Acid FillersCalcium Hydroxylapatite FillersPoly-L-lactic Acid FillersPolymethylmethacrylate FillersAutologous Fat GraftingForehead Lines TreatmentGlabellar Frown Lines TreatmentCrow's Feet TreatmentBunny Lines TreatmentChemical Brow LiftLip FlipGummy Smile CorrectionMasseter ReductionJaw SlimmingDimpled Chin SmoothingCobblestone Chin SmoothingNefertiti Neck LiftMicro-BotoxMesotoxHyperhidrosis TreatmentChronic Migraine ReliefBruxism TreatmentTMJ TreatmentCervical Dystonia TreatmentNeck Spasm TreatmentBlepharospasm TreatmentLip AugmentationLip ContouringCheekbone EnhancementTear Trough FillersNasolabial Fold SofteningMarionette Line FillersLiquid RhinoplastyNon-Surgical Nose JobJawline ContouringJawline DefinitionChin AugmentationTemple VolumisingHand RejuvenationAcne Scar Subcision Filling and that’s where the glands are . So it’s basically causing some heat to that area to the sweat glands.
One of the other side effects of is that you can smell, and have stale body odour; is the miraDry® addressing this issue too?
They have found, and they have been doing some studies, especially in Japan, where that’s a really big issue, that it does reduce or eliminate the odour.
Now part of the issue may be that there are both apocrine and eccrine glands in the same area. Apocrine glands are supposed to be the ones that create the odour, because of the bacteria that live off the gland secretions, but it seems to work (to reduce the odour) in the vast of people that get this done to treat the or sweat glands.
Are you aware of developments that miraDry® ( Labs) have in terms of either future clinical or maybe future of the device?
One that a lot of people have is that they have hyperhidrosis in their hands. Their hands are a very area, obviously with skin and and nerves that are right underneath the skin. So this poses a little bit more of a (than axillae).
They’re going to look into finding out if they can create a device that can be used either on the hands, to make it safer, but to still make it work. So they’re hopefully going to be working in the development of that, I don’t have more details besides that though.
And then there’s another side effect that we often see which is that some people have a reduction in hair when they do these treatments; for women, it’s a bonus, for men, they don’t really care. So there may be an application for using this for hair reduction on people who have light or grey hairs, which of course are resistant to any lasers that we currently have.
Would you go as far as to say that miraDry® is a revolutionary for people who suffer from ?
This is absolutely revolutionary because it works!
It’s consistent in how well it works, we know that you’re really only going to take two treatments for a great result, very rarely do people need three treatments, perhaps if they have really thick skin.
It is life-changing, every patient that I have has been so grateful, including one of my best friends and my cousin.
It’s unbelievable the number of people who suffer from hyperhidrosis, and when they can get this done, and then be fine and not have to worry about that every single day; it changes their life.
I. Jacob, M.D. is a Board-Certified Dermatologist, and Harvard-Trained and Laser .
Dr Jacob graduated Suma Cum Laude from University and earned her degree from the University of at . She was Chief Resident of Dermatology at the of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics and a and Laser Surgery at Harvard Medical School in 2000. Dr Jacob’s areas of include lasers for rejuvenation, hair removal, aesthetics, sclerotherapy, liposuction, fat reduction, and therapies for photoaging. Her research activities include the investigation and of various devices, botulinum toxins and products for skin rejuvenation. She has over 25 and 12 book chapters on dermatology and surgery.
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