Problems With Sweating At Night?
I often hear from friends and aquintances that they have problems with sweating at night, and as I recall the times I wake up with soaked bed sheets and wondering if I have a problem aswell. These often happen in the summer, I forget to close the curtains and there I go, it feels like a steamer inside my room. But these problems also seem to occur out of the blue in the winter or in other circumstances where these outside factors dont seem to explain the problem. So why do people seem to have problems with sweating at night? There are several factors to consider that one might not have thought of.
Hormones are one of the reasons that people experience soaked beds in the morning. When ones hormone levels are at an extreme level, most likely in puberty or when a woman has her period, the hormones runs wild which can cause the body to be working hard and therefore heat up. This then causes the hyperhidrosis at night. One might notice this at day aswell, but it might just come as a burst at night and not be noticeable in daytime.
People who are diagnosed with serious diseases like cancer or AIDS will have sweating as a symptom of their illnesses. This does not happen in all instances as the cancer type that is associated with sweating at night is usually lymphoma. This also covers people that have infections like tuberculosis. These will most often have hyperhidrosis during the night.
Different medication can be the cause of sweating at night. Some psychiatric drugs like antidepressants can lead to excessive sweating at night. These are usually labeled on them as a sideeffect, although not a serious one. Medication that are supposed to lower fevers also can be the cause of hyperhidrosis at night. This isnt necessarily because of the drug, but its merely the body trying to cool itself of as the fever is heating up the body. Since the aspirin is only making you feel yourself cooled, the body is still actually warm and needs to lower its temeperature even if you cant feel it. People who are taking insulin may also experience sweating at night when their blood sugar is at a low point.
In addition we also have idiopathic hyperhidrosis which covers most of the occurences, and that is when there simply isnt an explanation. The body just seems to produce sweat without any reason that can be connected medicaly. Often these come in conjunction with other outside factors, like warmer weather, new bed sheets, other factors. And other times, the body just feels like sweating. For more information on sweating and how to stop sweating, take a look at Mike Geary’s book “Stop Sweating And Start Living”
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