Night Sweats

Night sweats are a common complaint that doctors often meet. Night sweats are associated with any abnormal or excessive sweating that occurs during the night. Typically, when you sweat at night because the room is too hot or you're wearing clothes too, but not normal is when you sweat excessively for no reason at all.

Doctors define night sweats as severe hot flashes that usually watering and sheets on the bed, which is not related to an environment that is too hot. It can be quite difficult to distinguish from hot flashes, most women can suffer when they go through menopause.

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The causes of night sweats

A variety of different causes of night sweats. To determine the cause, the tests should be conducted to determine any underlying medical cause and a full history of the people of the substance must be obtained. These are some conditions that can cause night sweats: -

1 - Menopause - periods of sweating associated with menopause, and you have a lot during the night. These can also occur in a few years before menopause even begin.

2 - Idiopathic hyperhidrosis - is where the body produces a lot of heavy sweating for no reason at all.

3- Infection - Various infections can cause night sweats. Some of these infections include tuberculosis, endocarditis and abscesses.

4 - Cancer - Early stages of some cancers can cause sweating.

5 - Medications - Some medications can cause this problem. Antidepressants and Viagra are two medications that cause night sweats. The drugs used to lower fever such as aspirin can also lead to sweating.

6 - Hypoglycemia - low blood sugar levels may suffer from this problem sweating. Sweat may indicate the underlying problem of undiagnosed diabetes.

7 - Hormonal Disorder - These are, hyperthyroidism, carcinoid syndrome, etc.

a) Hyperthyroidism

It is basically a condition where there is an overproduction of thyroid hormones in the thyroid gland. In general more is known as hypothyroidism.

b)Carcinoid syndrome

It is a disease in which tumors that developed in the body to release hormones that cause many problems such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, heart disease, of course, sweating vulvular including night sweats.

8 - Neurological disorders - These include autonomic neuropathy and autonomic dysreflexia, etc.

a)Autonomic neuropathy)

This is a group of conditions, and not a specific disease. It consists mainly of damage to the peripheral nervous system (nerves IE used to transmit information from the spinal cord to the brain)

b) Autonomic dysreflexia

This is a significant medical problem requires immediate medical attention! It is a condition that occurs most often in a spinal cord injury. E 'characterized by severe hypertension, headache, reddening of the skin and profuse sweating.

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