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Sweating in diabetes
Author(s) -
Hillson Rowan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
practical diabetes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.205
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2047-2900
pISSN - 2047-2897
DOI - 10.1002/pdi.2096
Subject(s) - sweat , cystic fibrosis , medicine , diabetes mellitus , endocrinology , sweat test , apocrine , physiology , dermatology , pathology
114 PRACTICAL DIABETES VOL. 34 NO. 4 COPYRIGHT © 2017 JOHN WILEY & SONS It was hot in the Peruvian rainforest – over 40 oC. We walked for hours looking for wildlife. That evening my clothes were wringing wet with sweat – and the macaws had eaten my soap. Sweating cools our bodies. Adrenaline release causes sweating too. Most sweat is excreted from eccrine glands throughout the skin, especially on the palms, soles, and head. Sweat contains mainly water and sodium chloride, with potassium, bicarbonate, and trace components including glucose. Most of the sodium chloride is reabsorbed. Apocrine sweat glands, mainly in the axillae and anogenital area, excrete sweat containing lipids, proteins and steroids, mixed with sebum. Sweat is odourless but the action of skin bacteria makes it smell, particularly the oily apocrine sweat which may act as a pheromone.