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Can you use botox cream instead of botox injection for excessive sweating?

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No Botox cream yet!: Topical botulinum toxin products are in development, but are not available yet (except by scammers or frauds). Botox works well for sweating, but you must endure injections at the present time. Sorry! dr. Tholen.

Answered 6/24/2014

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No: No. First of all there is no Botox cream commercially available. Second, Botox molecules are too big to pass through the skin.

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Dr. Timothy Mountcastle answered

Specializes in Plastic Surgery

No: Not in the United States. They are under investigation.

Answered 6/5/2014

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Dr. Michael Sinclair answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Nope: Putting Botox on your skin would be like trying to fix a broken brick wall by painting it with bricks. In order for the Botox to work, it has to get to the nerves. The nerves are in the muscle, not in the skin. So, for the Botox to work, it has to get into the muscle. That won't happen if you rub it on your skin. With topical anesthetic, Botox injections should cause very little pain at all.

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