Anatom3DEccrine sweat glands
Glandulae sudoriferae eccrinae · Ekrinní potní žlázy
Skin & appendages
Looks like
Tiny coiled tubes deep in the dermis opening by pores all over the body, densest on the palms, soles and forehead.
What it does
Make watery sweat that cools the body as it evaporates.
Keeping it well
Drink more in heat and exercise. Heavy sweating that soaks the bedclothes at night, or sudden sweating with chest pain, needs a doctor.
Related conditions
- Acne vulgaris
- Alopecia (androgenetic & areata)
- Atopic dermatitis (eczema)
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Boils and folliculitis
- Bullous pemphigoid
- Burns
- Candida & fungal infection
- Cellulitis
- Chickenpox (varicella)
- Chilblains (pernio)
- Cold sores (herpes simplex)
- Contact dermatitis
- Endemic fungal infections (histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis)
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- Heat exhaustion & heatstroke
- Hidradenitis suppurativa
- Hyperhidrosis
- Hypermobility and Ehlers–Danlos syndromes
- Hypothermia & frostbite
- Infantile haemangioma (strawberry mark)
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Keloid & hypertrophic scars
- Leishmaniasis
- Leprosy (Hansen's disease)
- Lichen planus
- Lichen sclerosus
- Lyme disease
- Mast cell activation & mastocytosis
- Measles
- Melanoma
- Melasma
- Mpox (monkeypox)
- MRSA and resistant staph infection
- Necrotising fasciitis
- Onchocerciasis (river blindness)
- Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease)
- Pilonidal sinus
- Pressure ulcers & chronic wounds
- Psoriasis
- Psoriatic arthritis
- Radiation injury
- Rosacea
- Roseola (sixth disease)
- Rubella (German measles)
- Scabies & lice
- Scarlet fever
- Scrub typhus & rickettsial infections
- Seborrhoeic dermatitis & dandruff
- Shingles (herpes zoster)
- Skin cancer (basal cell & squamous cell)
- Stevens–Johnson syndrome / toxic epidermal necrolysis
- Sun damage & actinic keratosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Urticaria & angioedema
- Vitamin D deficiency
- Vitiligo
- Warts, molluscum and skin infections