https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-cant-prince-andrew-sweat-the-answer-is-anhidrosis-cld20rds0
When the young Queen Elizabeth opened the Ceylonese parliament she had to sit in the sun in her heavy and bejewelled coronation dress for an hour.
That was the first time her courtiers noticed one of her more unusual traits: she stayed fresh throughout.
Sixty years later on a visit to Ground Zero in New York, when temperatures passed 100F, they noticed it again. The Queen, they observed, did not appear to sweat.
The Duke of York sought to undermine the testimony of one of his accusers when he said that reports of him sweating in a nightclub could not be true, as he did not sweat.
Anhidrosis, a condition characterised by poorly functioning sweat glands, can be genetic. Prince Andrew’s claim was not that he inherited it, though, but that he contracted it as a result of adrenaline while he was a helicopter pilot in the Falklands conflict.
Some doctors have questioned the plausibility of that explanation. Several pointed out yesterday that an overdose of adrenaline was typically more likely to cause excess sweating rather than the reverse.
Dorothy Bennett, director of the Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute at St George’s, University of London, said that she was prepared to keep an open mind about environmental triggers.
And adrenaline? She said that there was some evidence to back up the idea. In 1983 a scientific paper cited high levels of a circulating hormone called epinephrine, better known as adrenaline, as a potential cause of anhidrosis.
When the young Queen Elizabeth opened the Ceylonese parliament she had to sit in the sun in her heavy and bejewelled coronation dress for an hour.
That was the first time her courtiers noticed one of her more unusual traits: she stayed fresh throughout.
Sixty years later on a visit to Ground Zero in New York, when temperatures passed 100F, they noticed it again. The Queen, they observed, did not appear to sweat.
The Duke of York sought to undermine the testimony of one of his accusers when he said that reports of him sweating in a nightclub could not be true, as he did not sweat.
Anhidrosis, a condition characterised by poorly functioning sweat glands, can be genetic. Prince Andrew’s claim was not that he inherited it, though, but that he contracted it as a result of adrenaline while he was a helicopter pilot in the Falklands conflict.
Some doctors have questioned the plausibility of that explanation. Several pointed out yesterday that an overdose of adrenaline was typically more likely to cause excess sweating rather than the reverse.
Dorothy Bennett, director of the Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute at St George’s, University of London, said that she was prepared to keep an open mind about environmental triggers.
And adrenaline? She said that there was some evidence to back up the idea. In 1983 a scientific paper cited high levels of a circulating hormone called epinephrine, better known as adrenaline, as a potential cause of anhidrosis.
