Blood-type?

klamm76 · Newbie User Joined: Nov 21, 2006 Posts: 91

Yea I also eat a lot of bread,and when I was younger I drank at least 2 liter of milk every day.

I havent notice something about the milk,but since I got stomach trouble I was adviced to keep away from the milk.

The things I do know that gives me trouble is wheat,coffe,sodadrinks/limonade,gum,apple.And I feel sugar is trigging my sweating more.

So I have stayed away from limonade,coffe for 11 years.The wheat is difficult,but I try to eat bread that not have to much wheat.(or its made in another way,we call it speltbread in Norway and its better bread for me to tolerate)

And yea drinking alchohol keeps the sweating in some control,but I then sweat 2 times moore the next day.I think this is because the parasymphatic nervesystem have control then.(like you are saing dont care, is calm etc.Still I am calm whitout being drunk to, but sweat like hell.?)Mayby this is why betablockers helps people that is sweating?I could say a lot about these things but not get anywhere.

The point is that its wery difficult to follow a stright diet and find out what I can eat or not.And I wont do it for fun when its so hard to do.

The reason I ask of the bloodtype I have explained already,so it would be nice if some more people whith HH could answer this.And you who dont know could find out,because maybe it is something that we eat that bloodtype B cant tolerate.I dont know?.Need more answers.

What better playses then in here is better to ask these kind of quiestions?Its no point asking my neighbour or something like that about this.

If the majority whit HH have bloodtype B then I think its worth looking in to.If not OK then we have to look for other answers,there must be a reason for this ridiculous diseas.

craftyli · Newbie User Joined: Apr 04, 2008 Posts: 2

I have HH in my armpits quite badly and i'm B neg blood type.

Jezza · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject:

Hi there,

Seems I have exaggerated a little with this reply but nobody has the obligation to read and I guess it could be an interesting read for some... Cool

I find myself thinking about what causes this rediculous condition all day everyday now.

I have generalised HH, started of as palmoplantar, than became worse and worse, especially the last couple of years (I'm 22 now) and more and more started to affect my armpits, lower back, groin region, hell even my knees and elbows sometimes.

Unfortunately though I'm going to have to break the B+ theme. I have O, that is, it is never established but since my mom and dad both have O and it's a recessive genetype so they could only have given me O, don't know if it's plus or minus though.

Still, none, that is not one of my relatives has HH so I'm thinking that unless I have so much stupid bad luck that I'm the first of a new line of HH sufferers (that is, under the big assumption that a cure/acceptable medication is found before I reach 40 or something like that so I can actually be in a situation that I can have children at all and even more important without some disease that will make their live suck) there has to be an underlying cause because I can't believe it would be genetic.

My 4 theories are;

1 Carefully yet unconsciously (well, I guess it mostly is, what I mean is, at the time I didn't realise the possible impact of actions of others on your personal development as I do now) developed social phobia that eventually lead to sweating and this dry mouth I have developed more in more in the last couple (without using medication).
Especially in important timeframes like early youth and puberty being treated negatively without an identifiable reason other than being you I guess could cause social anxiety...
Anyway, in this case in theory it could be reversible through some kind of mental therapy but realistically I don't see that happen.

2 Spinal Cord injury, pituitary gland damage or hypothalamic lesion due to various crashes, bumps, falls and blows to head encountered in youth (like every child with a preference for the outdoors/bikes/ramps etc coupled with some bad luck). This might be the case but I think I would encounter even more effects and moreover even if it could be established it could probably not be helped (it would therefore only serve for some reassurance that 1 is not true and some certainty of what will happen in the future, although that would probably look grimm in this case)

3 Some kind of benign brain tumor that does no harm except weighing down on the pituitary gland and therefore causing it to give out to many signals or pheocromocytoma (a rare tumor of one of the adrenal glands) that causes those glands to create way to much adrenalin under stress. Both are highly unlikely but I would like to have it checked out one day, since it is mentioned on some sites about HH and they wouldn't put it on there without there actually being a case of it now would they...oh wait...medical world, dominated by liability lawsuits, yeah I guess they would).

4 Some other endocrine disease like hyperthyroidism, but frankly I don't really believe that can cause HH, since a lot of people have it and HH not so much.

Some other notions; why does it start at puberty in most cases (apart from the fact that you haven't got sweat glands in armpits and groin before) and why does it get worse eventhough fysically your an adult. It shouldn't be to hard for medical people to come up with an answer to this I would say.

ANYWAY, my conclusion; as stupid as it sounds I'm hoping in my case it's three, that I have some kind of simple cancer, that they can operate on it and HH will be gone.

Still, with my luck, chances are the cure will be found the day after I die of old age...

How is that for optimism Laughing

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WastedPotential · Newbie User Joined: Jan 01, 2008 Posts: 8

A- and I have HH.

MuZI · Newbie User Joined: Apr 07, 2008 Posts: 2

B+

Hands, Feed, and mostly Underarms sweat.

BiGz · Newbie User Joined: Aug 29, 2006 Posts: 50

Just to add to your theories Jezza there is a possible 5th. And that is some sort of external impact such as chemicals that we unwittingly consume or have some sort of contact with that we react to. But I'd say highly unlikely.

As it turns out my cousin has HH so I'm assuming its genetic, although other than him I have no idea who had HH prior to us although it narrows down which side of my family it stemmed from and to be honest I don't have any intention of investigating my family as Only my parents are aware of my problem out of my family members.

Jezza · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject:

Yes I understand. I didn't exactly go around asking for whether or not they had HH either, that would have yielded some awkward conversations, but your parents grew up with your aunts and uncles (the ones blood related at least) so they'd know if they had seen it before and in my case that is not the case at all.

And for cousins, you probably don't have to closely examine them to find out if they have HH. Establishing that someone has it might be tough, but at least you can easily see that people don't have HH if they haven't (I presume you shake hands with them on occassion too).

In my case I told my parents that when the subject happened to be unavoidable when my family asked how things were going they didn't have to conceal the HH at all cost, which means I know now that some aunts know, so that means probably everybody does from that side of the family, but still, they probably don't realize the real implications of it all, and as of yet haven't talked to me about it, so at least they know me enough to know I'm not really waiting for that.

Still it might be important to know your family history in terms of HH and what's causing it, for instance to determine if it's primary or secondary. Now I know almost sure it's not in the family, I have more "hope" it's secondary (although there are some indications to the contrary as well).

Zoot · Newbie User Joined: Apr 13, 2008 Posts: 10

I'm sure I once read somewhere that blood-type B is common in many Asian countries. There is also a high incidence of HH amongst Asian people so I think the issue is race rather than blood-type.

I am Asian, suffer from HH, and have blood type B.

BiGz · Newbie User Joined: Aug 29, 2006 Posts: 50

Hi Zoot yes you are correct. Its odd really as Asian people sweat less in general than other races yet have the highest incidents of HH.

Tracing my background I had a great great grandmother who was Chinese but thats so far removed I don't see how it would have an impact. I don't think the middle east counts as my great grandmother is Persian and the rest of me is English and as much Scottish as Chinese (great great grandfather). Maybe having such a mixed race was the screw up Laughing

klamm76 · Newbie User Joined: Nov 21, 2006 Posts: 91