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Gustatory sweating and diabetes
J van der Linden1, H A Sinnige, M A van den Dorpel
1Department of Internal Medicine, St. Clara Hospital Rotterdam, Olympiaweg 350, 3078 HT, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|March 23, 2000
Abstract:
Gustatory sweating as a feature of autonomic neuropathy is an unusual phenomenon in diabetes mellitus. We describe a patient with type 1 diabetes mellitus complicated by retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy. This patient presented with bilateral diffuse facial sweating during eating. She was treated with the antimuscarine agent oxybutynine, which provided a striking relief from the gustatory sweating.