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17
Feb
2015

Miradry Is Life Changing for Hyperhidrosis Sufferers

Lorna was Editor of Room (), the UK's largest website, from 2003 to 2021.

miraDry® is a safe, clinically proven, FDA-cleared solution for reducing underarm sweat. It is the only procedure that a of  in a way.

 delivers precisely energy to the region where the underarm glands reside, which heats the sweat glands and them for good. The device won The Award for Innovation at the Aesthetic Awards 2014.

Dr Jacob has authored a paper on the development of the miraDry® system and presented 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 January of 2012.  The number of patients 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 patients need two treatments, spaced apart by three months, to have about a 90% reduction 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 treatment that can give them a lasting result.

Do you think that is the new acne; by that, I mean that people can suffer from acne for a very long time and never that they can find a solution.

Not as many people have as have acne. About 30 it’s estimated in the United States have hyperhidrosis, however, the amount to which it bothers them is greater, it is considered more embarrassing than having acne, because so many people have acne, and it’s become a little bit more . This (hyperhidrosis) seems to be more like a silent type of condition.

Do you find that you’re seeing a range of patients, men as well as women, with age groups and social profiles?

. So the age range for our that have used spans from 13 years old to 72. 

As we know a lot of people with develop the condition at puberty and there’s one young girl who was given permission by her mother to have the done because she’s an and there was a lot of problems with the sweating. So she’s doing much better, which is wonderful.

Most of the patients are between 25 and 50 years old and most of them are new to our . There are probably 60% women and 40% men. So it’s actually something that a lot of men have an issue with and this is a that they want to seek out so they can stop ruining their .

We know that there are other available for hyperhidrosis, such as stronger antiperspirants, toxins and iontophoresis. What are the advantages that miraDry brings to patients that aren’t available with the other options?

So other treatments for hyperhidrosis are temporary, or they may have effects, like the antiperspirants may cause some or rashes to the skin.

 () are not 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 because it wears off. Plus it does require needle injections and a lot of people don’t want to have repeat needle injections.

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 .

With the sensor, it’s not invasive, it’s a treatment that can be done on an out-patient basis within 60 to 90 minutes.

Patients have a little bit of for maybe three days or so, but other than that they can do their normal .

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 downtime with this and it’s lasting. 

So once they’ve had the treatment done, after two treatments, if they have that 90% reduction it’s going to be permanent because you can’t re-grow these sweat glands.

And you don’t need them either, they’re 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 or have four to five times the amount of abnormally in their underarms.

Could you briefly the mode of action of the microwave energy that you’re delivering and how that works?

Just like your microwave at home, which heats up water to make your tea, water the microwave energy because it has a di-pole molecule, one side is positive and one side is negative.

The microwave energy travels across those molecules, they flip back and forth and the rapid or flipping back and forth of the molecules creates frictional 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.

Luckily the tissue that contains water is the glands or the sweat glands. They’re able (with the device) to put this energy right at the base of the lower part of the skin, the dermis, right where it reaches the subcutaneous fat and that’s where the glands are . So it’s basically causing some controlled 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® treatment 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 the odour. 

Now part of the issue may be that there are both apocrine and 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 eccrine or sweat glands.

Are you aware of developments that miraDry® ( Labs) have in terms of either future clinical studies or maybe future generations of the device?

One that a lot of people have is that they have in their hands. Their hands are a very area, obviously with skin and tendons and nerves that are right the skin. So this poses a little bit more of a challenge (than axillae).

They’re going to look into finding out if they can create a device that can be used either fractionally 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 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 for using this for hair reduction on people who have light or grey hairs, which of course are 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 in how well it works, we know that you’re really only going to take two 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 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.

Carolyn I. Jacob, M.D. is a Board-Certified Dermatologist, and Harvard-Trained Cosmetic and Laser Surgeon.

Dr Jacob graduated Suma Cum Laude from Indiana University and earned her medical degree from the University of at Chicago. She was Chief of at the of and and completed a Cosmetic and Laser Surgery at Harvard School in 2000. Dr Jacob’s areas of expertise include lasers for rejuvenation, hair removal, aesthetics, sclerotherapy, tumescent liposuction, non-surgical fat reduction, hyperhidrosis treatments and therapies for . Her research activities include the investigation and outcomes of various energy-based devices, botulinum toxins and products for skin . She has over 25 and 12 book on dermatology and surgery.

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