Anhidrosis

Anhidrosis

ICD-10	L744
ICD-9	705.0
OMIM	[1]
DiseasesDB	21064
MedlinePlus	[2]
eMedicine	/
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[Anhidrosis][3] means lack of sweating. It is also known by a number of other names including Adiaphoresis, Ischidrosis, Hypohidrosis, Oligidria, Oligohidrosis and Sweating deficiency.

Causes

It may be caused by underactivity of the sympathetic nervous system. Eccrine sweat glands are innervated via muscarinic acetylcholine receptors. Hence antimuscarinic drugs cause anhidrosis.

See also

• Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis also known as CIPA
• Fabry's disease
• Horner's syndrome
• Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating)
• Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
• Sjogren’s syndrome

External links

• [4]
• NIH/Medline
• MSNBC - MSNBC article about child with Anhidrosis / CIPA