Although sweating while sleeping is largely the same thing as experiencing night sweats, I receive quite a few inquiries regarding this specific phenomenon so I will try to address it by itself. If you find yourself sweating while sleeping often, I suggest you try some of these steps. If you continue to suffer from the sweats while asleep, then I will assist you in identifying potential causes. However, I always urge people to consult their medical doctor if they have serious concerns about their health.
Excessive Sweating While Sleeping
Excessive sweating while sleeping is known clinically as sleep hyperhidrosis. Sweating while sleeping causes are often harmless, so I urge you not to panic. Panic attacks while sleeping won’t help you curb your rising body temperature as you try to get a good night’s sleep.
Sweating at night while sleeping often occurs for genetic reasons or simple environmental reasons. If you’re dad sweat at night even in good health and you do too, you may simply have to learn to
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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.
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. Primary hyperhidrosis’s only treatment is the surgical removal of the specific sweat glands responsible for the condition.
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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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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Menopause night sweats are exactly what they sound like: excessive sweating in the night as a result of menopause hot flashes when you’re asleep and can’t do anything about those night sweats. While I know some women who celebrate the natural passing of their menstrual cycle, I also know we all must face the consequences of these changes in our bodies, and quite often, they’re just not any fun.
I urge you to stay calm and be at peace with the changes. As our ovaries begin the natural process of bidding adieu to our lives, our endocrine system and thus our hormonal balance will experience dramatic shifts. Menopause night sweats are natural and can even be seen as healthy because your body is cleansing itself of excessive toxins (every time you perspire you emit some toxins, hence the sometimes unpleasant odor).
However, when you decide to address causes of excessive sweating, I suggest seeing a medical professional for advice. While your night sweats are most likely nothing to be too concerned about, it is still a good idea to have your doctor evaluate you to be certain nothing more serious is occurring within your body. Sometimes simply changing your medication regiment can provide you significant relief.
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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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