The usual suspects are the culprit in this case: foods and beverages containing caffeine (including chocolate), alcohol, dense and fatty foods and spicy foods will all contribute to your suffering night sweats symptoms.
Additionally, I think people underestimate how close to bed they should avoid these foods and beverages. An hour isn’t enough time: I encourage you to avoid these foods at least 2 to 3 hours before bed and ideally you shouldn’t consume either caffeine or alcohol in the evening at all (at least while you’re trying to determine the cause of your sweating at night).
You will find some foods and beverages that help prevent your night sweats. But I’ll leave that for the next section below.
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Many women do not associate these early symptoms with one another and certainly don’t think about talking to their doctor about them until they persist or until other well-known warning signs begin to appear. This is usually when the thought of menopause and menopause night sweats comes to light.
The doctor may run tests to check her estrogen levels, and based upon the findings, he may prescribe the appropriate hormone replacement therapy for each woman. For women who are perimenopausal or in the early stages of menopause, usually a specific vitamin will provide relief and help them ease into this next phase of their life with fewer unpleasant low estrogen symptoms such as profuse night sweats and worse.
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You’re not alone if you suffer from hot flashes and night sweats. Believe it or not, eighty-five percent of women in the United States suffer some form of hot flashes and night sweats during perimenopause and in the year or two following menopause.
During perimenopause, menopause, and as you wean off Hormone Replacement Therapy — which I’ll refer to as HRT — your body perseveres a major hormonal transition.
The symptoms associated with hot flashes and night sweats vary among different women.
Whether you’re suffering from hot flashes or night sweats from natural fluctuation of your hormones during perimenopause and menopause or because you’re quickly weaning off HRT, the physiology is quite similar.
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You could be a woman suffering from menopause night sweats or you could be a man suffering one of the many reasons for night sweats in men, but either way, you struggle for comfortable sleep and peace of mind. The clinical name is sleep hyperhidrosis or nocturnal hyperhidrosis, but you simply know it as night sweats. And while much of the health products industry emphasizes menopausal night sweats, male night sweats or andropause night sweats are not uncommon and can be just as frustrating.
I battled night sweats for years, and after several medical doctor and therapist visits, I finally received effective help for night sweats. Now I’m here to do my best to help you get through the night!
I discovered several things to help me, both in terms of diet and supplements as well as cool products to wear or to use while I fought my sweating while sleeping. But it took me some time and money to try a ton of stuff before I settled on a few that I knew really worked. With this site, I hope to share with you what really worked for me and hopefully save you some of the time and money I lost. But everyone is different; I will try to elucidate the most common and serious conditions which cause night sweats, including those well beyond my own experience. What causes night sweats for one person may be very different for another.
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