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Rush for £500 Botox jabs that stop you sweating in the heat
Jonathan Prynn, Consumer Business Editor19.06.09
London clinics have seen a surge in bookings for £500 "sweatox" treatments.
The procedure, which involves injecting Botox into the armpits or other sweaty parts of the body, stops perspiration for about seven months.
With temperatures expected to soar next week, doctors expect waiting lists to grow. The Harley Medical Group said bookings are already up 40 per cent this year.
Teacher Laura Keeling, 28, who had a Sweatox treatment a month ago, said: "I have suffered from excess sweating since I was a teenager. No deodorant worked and I ended up just wearing black so the marks would be less visible. I was a real sweaty betty.
"I had 25 injections in each armpit - it was all done in 15 minutes. It took a week or two to kick in but now I'm able to wear anything I like.
"I've read about having my sweat-glands lasered out altogether. That costs about £3,500 but it's something to think about."
Liz Dale, director of the Harley Medical Group, said: "Although we saw a marked increase in what has been dubbed 'sweatox' last year, bookings over the past month have outstripped demand in 2008."
Reader views (4)
It wears off after 7 months it is not perminant
I am laura keeling from the article above!
- Laura Keeling, kent
Mark - you have obviously never heard of hyperhidrosis. It has nothing to do with how hot your body is. It can be cold and you still sweat. Botox just regulates it so that you don't get people making nasty comments (something I imagine you are quite good at)
- Lavinia, London
81% of the patients receiving botulinum toxin injections achieved a greater than 50% reduction in sweating, thus it does not work for everyone and could only reduce the problem rather than stops perspiration as the story suggests
- Gary, brentwood
Erm doesn't sweating actually perform a very important bodily function? How will your body regulate it's temperature if you can not sweat? Vanity will be the death of you....literally!
- Mark, London
