Hand Antiperspirant or other suggestions. Help! Sweaty Hands!

One of my climbing partners asked me to find out if the MP community had any solutions to his excessively sweaty hands. I know I have seen threads before about this subject but a bit of searching brought up nothing.
Basically chalk is almost silly for him. He chalks up, grabs the starting hold, makes one move, and the starting hold is soaking wet and his hand is chalkless. If we are working a climb with him, we spend a bunch of time drying the holds after his burns. Do you guys have any solutions? Has anyone tried something like this stuff? ghostgrip.com/
It says non sticky. Does that mean non greasy? What do gymnasts do? He can literally make sweat pool in his hands, so I don't want to hear that chalk is a crutch or that you can just wipe your hands on your pants. He cannot. Thanks for any input.
Nikolai

I've heard of people with "your friend's" problem having surgery to inhibit the sweat glands in their hands. I think there was an article in one of the climbign mags about it a few years back.

I have used some stuff called Tite-Grip. It worked very well even in the desert in the summer...

Needs just a little more beer in the diet. Works for me!

liquid chalk

Mono- Should have seen that one coming... Yea we found some info on that. Hoping to avoid that option.
Larry- Ill take a look.
mc- College student. Not possible to add more beer to the diet!!!
Nooky- Tried it. Helps a bit. Gets sweated off like everything else in a few moves tho.
Thanks guys

I heard of a prescription for one climber I know. He has to put it on the night before and I helps him out a ton!

Nikolai Daiss-Fechner wrote:One of my climbing partners asked me to find out if the MP community had any solutions to his excessively sweaty hands. I know I have seen threads before about this subject but a bit of searching brought up nothing. Basically chalk is almost silly for him. He chalks up, grabs the starting hold, makes one move, and the starting hold is soaking wet and his hand is chalkless. If we are working a climb with him, we spend a bunch of time drying the holds after his burns. Do you guys have any solutions? Has anyone tried something like this stuff? ghostgrip.com/ It says non sticky. Does that mean non greasy? What do gymnasts do? He can literally make sweat pool in his hands, so I don't want to hear that chalk is a crutch or that you can just wipe your hands on your pants. He cannot. Thanks for any input. Nikolai

There is several things that can be done. Read about Hyperhidrosis, lot's of articles it. There is a surgery where they snip a nerve in your back that shuts off your sweat glands in your hands, Botox is another popular solution (yes, it does more than remove wrinkles, it's a nerve inhibitor), and topical solutions.

I used something called Drysol for the longest time and had pretty good results with it.

google.com/search?q=hyperhi…

Nikolai,

you (or your friend) should buy a 10 pack of the ghost grip and sell a few of them to recover shipping costs. i would probably buy a couple from you. i have been using liquid chalk, which works pretty well if you apply it several times, but if there is something better out there i would be psyched to try it.

I've never tried it, but I've meet some climbers who use Witch Hazel. It's a natural astringent, and available in most drug stores. Maybe worth a try?

no shit this thing works...http://www.drionic.com/

i've used it for 4 years now and it's amazing! The way it works is cool if you're a science geek...

Monomaniac wrote:I've heard of people with "your friend's" problem .

Ha Ha Ha, I was thinking the same thing, funny stuff

Thanks a bunch guys. Hes gonna try some Tite-grip. We will try to post back and let you guys know how it works.