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The first thing a sufferer has to learn is that it is not incurable. While most treatments help one stop sweating, some will at least teach one how to limit sweating.

Excessive facial sweating and facial blushing are often regarded together as a specific manifestation of a hyperactive sympathetic system.

The symptoms of this affliction appear during social encounters. Several people who approach specialists looking for a treatment for sweating or to control sweating show more than one type of hyperhidrosis and facial sweating is often part of it.

Facial blushing is also called social phobia or erythrophobia. Facial blushing usually appears during teenage period. The sudden burst of facial redness is triggered by the presence of others or sometimes by the unexpected announcement of exciting information. The affliction may have a serious social as well as functional impact on the victim's life.

The number of people who ask for a means to stop or inquire about how to get free from sweating is on the increase. Most of the remedies recommended usually enable them to control excessive sweating or at least teach them how to limit sweating.

Some of the effective treatments to stop sweating are effective for facial blushing and sweating as well. For instance, medications like beta blockers and tranquilizing medications are found to be effective here also.

Sympathectomy is often recommended as a last resort for facial sweating as well. In fact, for some time, sympathectomy was even regarded as exclusive treatment to cure facial sweating. Thus, Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy (ETS) was prescribed as the most effective cure.

 However, in recent years the popularity of surgical solutions is on the decline as surgical treatment to cure sweating shows lower success rate. Moreover, the side effects are often more severe than facial blushing itself. The most common side effects have been loss of stamina, facial skin sensitivity, and facial flushed feeling.

Now, surgical solutions are not resorted to when only facial sweating and blushing are present.