Saturday, September 10, 2011

Compensatory Sweating

I noticed recently that my compensatory sweating, especially at the lower back and thigh areas, will only come if there is an extreme change of surrounding temperature.

Recently, I just came back from Australia, and because it was winter there (temperature around 8C-18C), the sudden change in temperature back to 36C over here, had caused my compensatory sweat to come. I believe the humidity also played an important part in causing the sweat.

However, after 2-3 days, when I have adapted back to local weather, my compensatory sweat disappears too.

I am going to try again, when I visit Korea later this year (also winter), and I will be able to confirm this phenomenon, and therefore able to understand better the compensatory sweating mechanism in me.