With some research you will discover two types of hyperhidrosis, primary hyperhidrosis and secondary hyperhidrosis. Medical science has not discovered the cause of primary night sweats. It is so severe it impairs a person’s ability to engage in daily activities such as work, school, family and social affairs.
The degree of severity for secondary sleep hyperhidrosis varies from person to person. In mild cases, the patient just needs to change the pillow case and keep a glass of cool water on the nightstand.
Some patients need to get up and wash themselves, then change their sleepwear as well as their bedsheets. Discovery and treatment of the underlying disease or injury is the only way to cure secondary night sweats. If the night sweats get to the point where the sleep loss interferes with daily functions, a visit to the doctor’s office is required.
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There are various causes of cold sweats including menopause night sweats, hormones, medical conditions (such as diabetes or infections like tuberculosis) and medications (especially antipyretics). Stress in itself can cause cold sweats and cold night sweats, as well as shock, intense pain from injuries or medical problems, severe shortness of breath, low blood sugar (hypoglycemia), and anxiety and fear that lead to excessive stress.
Nightmares, emotional problems, sleep apnea, sleep-walking, fever and perimenopause are also common causes of night sweats. There are likely to be other causes so it’s best to talk to your physician about your symptoms to rule out any potential health care issues or diseases.
The reason they’re considered cold sweats is that the human body’s hypothalamus — our internal thermostat — is using perspiration along with other biological mechanisms to cool the body. Because your body temperature is dropping while you’re sweating, you feel chills at the same time that you sweat. Unfortunately, several external and internal variables may confuse our hypothalamus and cause it to trigger these biological mechanisms even when unnecessary.
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In some cases the night sweats alcohol causes may be a minor occurrence. You have a couple glasses of beer or wine and go to sleep before you can work it out of your system. But I worry that in many cases where this occurs there is more to the story. Alcoholism is serious and often underestimated.
If you suspect that your night sweats are related to your alcohol intake, the first step is acknowledging this to yourself — and this is a big step. It is likely that your intake or dependence on alcohol has reached a dangerous stage if you are suffering this type of symptom. Make an appointment to see your physician and be honest about how much you are drinking and how often. He will be able to help you rule out any other contributing factors to establish if you are experiencing the kind of night sweats alcohol causes. If it does seem that this is the case, he can advise you on how to get the right kind of help for your problem.
Unfortunately even if you get help to overcome your alcohol problems, your night sweats may well continue. This is because alcohol withdrawal can also cause the sweating, if you were highly dependent. Your body needs to let itself adjust to the absence of the stimulant in its system.
Alcohol is a common cause of night sweats in men.
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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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Specifically unrelated to the environmental temperature in your bedroom, the night sweats resulting from stress is generally a result of extreme hot flashes brought on by any number of physical and psychological disorders. Night sweats provoked by medical disorders are often due to a high level of anxiety associated with the disorder.
Stress plays a large factor in many facets of our lives, including how well we sleep at night. When a person’s mind is overloaded with worry, the adrenal gland produces excessive amounts of hormones such as glucocorticoids in preparation for enduring the anticipated stress. This misfiring “fight or flight” reaction may result in night sweats. The kind of night sweats stress induces must often be addressed as much psychologically as medically.
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The causes of excessive sweating vary wildly, but you’ll always find one thing in common: they all have a trigger. With a little research, I discovered how the various causes of excessive sweating are often related to each other. Unfortunately, you may find many of the triggers of excessive sweating difficult to manage, which compounds the challenge for physicians attempting to help their patients.
I hope my list will provide a sound foundation for your research into this uncomfortable and frustrating physical phenomenon, but I encourage you to study further as well.
Excessive Sweating Causes: Puberty and Menopause
Adolescents are inclined to perspire a good deal. The reason might be psychological, because they’re confronting changes in their bodies and are being exposed to things which inaugurate them to adulthood. Simply put, teens in their pubescence stages tend to be more sweaty than those who are older or younger.
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My Night Sweats guide will soon be expanding and growing. I’ve received lots of great feedback from readers and fellow bloggers on what they would love to see on my site. Specifically, I’ve heard appeals for more solutions and fewer descriptions. In that regard, I plan to describe exactly how I personally combat night sweats, then I will describe methods close friends have used.
I’ve also received some great ideas from people writing me on this site. I will present some of those techniques and ideas once I have the approval of those who submitted the ideas to me. I can’t wait to share some of these because I would never have considered some of these techniques on my own.
You’ll notice some of my more comprehensive guides to relieving your night sweats are temporarily unavailable. I am revising those posts to include both the new methods I described above and to feature more compelling layouts with some images and videos illustrating various aspects of identifying and treating sleep hyperhidrosis (for those of you new to the site that’s fancy-talk for night sweats).
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