Facing up to the imperceptible perspiration. Modulatory influences by diabetic neuropathy, physical exercise and antiperspirant

Abstract

In diabetic neuropathy, the compensatory hyperhidrosis is more easily disclosed than the hypohidrosis. ACH affects both sweat excretion and the SC hydration.

Sweat Gland Awakening on Physical Training: A Skin Capacitance Mapping Observation

“…Such electrometric assessments of the upper layers of the epidermis represented a convenient noninvasive way for assessing the SC hydration. Such properties are closely related to a series of specific SC structures and functions [6][7][8][9].…”

“…In regular unstimulated physiological conditions, water is lost by evaporation through the combination of a transepidermal way and a discrete activity of eccrine sweat glands [8]. Basically, three distinct conditions were described regarding SCM aspects of the sweat gland activity.…”

“…It was suggested that this aspect was due to a moisturized cap of SC occluding acrosyringia openings. By contrast, the third boosted condition referred to watery liquids poured out through active sweat glands [8].…”

“…In normal conditions, the epidermis over a large part of the body produces a tidy Stratum Corneum (SC) composed of 15-20 layers or so of corneocytes with a total thickness of about [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] µm. This part of the epidermis is continuously renewed from the granular layer, and the outermost corneocytes gradually desquamate from the surface [1].…”

“…the skin surface hydration and microrelief [6][7][8][9]. The Moisture Map HM100 device (CK Technology, Visé, Belgium) is built with a close network of microcapacitors orderly dispersed on a 18 × 12.8 mm plate protected by a thin silicon oxide layer [11].…”