About Breast Rashes and Sweating

Sweating happens as part of the body’s need to cool down. It’s your body’s way of stabling your core temperature. When your body overheats, it releases a salty fluid - sweat. Your body cools down as the sweat evaporates.

Under breast sweat is a problem for thousands of women, large and small breasted. Many things can contribute to under breast sweat. Anywhere where there is skin-on-skin contact is an opportunity for sweat to form. Larger breasted women are more affected by sweating because they have more breast area coming in contact with their chest cavity. It can occur while exercising, in excessive heat and humidity, under stress or during pregnancy and experiencing breast growth for the first time. Wearing tight clothing that does not breath or experiencing hot flashes due to per menopause and menopause, are also other causes of breast sweat.

Excessive sweating can trap moisture under the breasts causing irritation and the chance for bacteria to grow a rash to develop. There are several forms of breast rash. Interigo is a rash that has formed in skin folds under the breasts. When the breasts come in contact with the chest cavity, chaffing occurs and can result in a rash that can get infected with yeast or bacteria, causing the area to become raw.

Heat rash or prickly heat is another skin irritation caused by excessive sweating. It occurs when the sweat ducts become clogged and sweat can’t get to the surface. A rash will develop due to inflammation. When the sweat glands are blocked the area can get dry, itchy and sore. It can have the appearance of red clusters of small tiny blisters or pimples that look like beads of sweat.

The key to reducing or eliminating breast sweat and breast rash is to keep the area dry. Persper-eez Pads are an excellent choice for addressing these types of issues. As with any potentially serious medical condition, seek the opinion of a medical professional.

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