When playing sports, people put on a headband to stop overactive sweating and facial sweating. This looks fine while you’re wielding a tennis racket, but it doesn’t make sense in the workplace or everyday life. If you have a problem with facial sweating when you are not overly active you will have to find an alternative. Anti-perspirants are not always effective on the face and other treatments such as Botox involve injecting a form of poison into the face to control facial sweating.

For extreme facial sweating, facial hyperhidrosis, in which people have overactive sweating regardless of the situation, ets surgery is often recommended. People who suffer from serious facial sweating will begin to sweat in the office, at home, or in social situations. It can be uncomfortable and embarrassing. Continually dabbing at the face with a cloth isn’t a much better solution than permanently wearing a headband. The most effective way to curb facial sweating is via ETS surgery.

However, there is something to keep in mind. The patients who respond best to ets surgery are those who have facial sweating combined with overactive sweating in other areas of the body—most often the hands and underarms. ets surgery is not always recommended for people who suffer from facial sweating alone. Usually, people having extreme facial sweating will also have overactive sweating in other body areas. If you do not, you should discuss the best course of action with your doctor for controlling your facial sweating.

ETS surgery is often seen as the last resort—after cognitive behavior therapy medication, ant-perspirants, or even hypnosis, have all been utilized and failed. The ETS surgery is not recommended for minor facial sweating which can be handled by any of these solutions. In cases of facial hyperhidrosis (extreme facial sweating), ets surgery is often the only possible solution.

The reason that the ETS surgery is not recommended for patients who only suffer from facial sweating without overactive sweating in other areas as the ETS surgery can sometimes result in sweat forming in new areas of the body. After ets surgery, it is possible to develop overactive sweating in the lower back, below the waist, or other parts of the body. If you have a problem with palm sweat, underarm sweat, and facial sweating combined, this might be seen as a tolerable risk. If you suffer only from facial sweating alone, these potential side effects from the ETS surgery may be comparable to the original problem. It is important to weigh the risk and rewards: sweat in other areas of the body may be preferable to facial sweating.