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Elderly patients with overall body sweat. The situation of a gradual onset of unexplained total body sweat and not limited to the hands feet and armpit is common among elderly patients above their 50s. Most of the patients complaining about this are women that because of unknown reasons develop overall body sweating. What Are Night Sweats? You could break into a sweat when your room feels warm or you've piled on.

  1. Excessive sweating - particularly at night - may be a sign of COVID-19. Patients have reported waking up in the night drenched in sweat. It's usually accompanied by the characteristic coronavirus.
  2. Night sweats are a common symptom of hormone disorders, since they tend to throw the body's functions out of wack. One hormone disorder which can cause night sweats is carcinoid syndrome, which.
  3. Night sweats, or also referred to as nocturnal hyperhidrosis (Hyperhidrosis - a medical term for excessive sweating + nocturnal - night) is the repeated occurrence of excessive sweating during sleep. The person may or may not also perspire excessively while awake.

Waking up in the morning with a mouth drier than ash and a feeling of general malaise often points to one particular condition: dehydration. If this is a regular feature of your morning routine, and it doesn't coincide with hangovers, there could be deeper medical causes. When you wake up dehydrated, your body may be giving you clues to what's actually going on under the surface.

Your body isn't meant to dehydrate naturally overnight. Scientists discovered in 2010 that the body's internal clock, or circadian rhythm, tightly controls the amount of water you lose while you get your 40 winks, making sure that your body remains hydrated while you get your beauty sleep. However, in some of us, that controlled hydration is disrupted, and it's a signal that certain things may be out of alignment. The culprits may be hormones, sleeping styles, lifestyle factors or underlying illnesses, but waking up without enough hydration in your system is an issue that needs to be fixed.

The symptoms of dehydration will keep dogging you throughout the day. The Mayo Clinic explains that, beyond dry mouth, it can also make you dizzy and confused, and a study in 2018 found that even slight dehydration can influence your concentration, making you zone out when you need to focus. If you do wake up dehydrated, here are some potential reasons why.

Your sleep style itself can influence your dehydration overnight, according to the National Sleep Foundation. 'Even if you start the night reasonably well-hydrated, you’ll lose some body fluids simply by breathing while you sleep,' they note. However, some methods of breathing are more prone to causing dehydration than others. 'This is especially true if you breathe through your mouth, snore, or have sleep apnea. If you breathe through your nose while you slumber, you won’t lose nearly as much water from your body,' says the Foundation.

While you might like to bake like a loaf in an oven overnight, it's likely to lead to dehydration in the morning. 'An overly dry or warm bedroom can also lead to extra fluid loss during the night,' says the National Sleep Foundation. Perspiration can mean you wake up parched. Science also indicates that a cooler temperature in bedrooms is better for restful sleep, and sleeping with a humidifier on can help combat dry winter air.

Another possible culprit for dehydration when you wake up? 'A late-day intense exercise session without sufficient rehydration,' says the National Sleep Foundation. The problems with late-night exercise go beyond hydration; it can also disrupt your internal clock and sleep cycle, making you tired the next day. Try exercising at the same (slightly earlier) time each day, and making certain to refuel on water after.

Occasional night sweats causes
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Night sweats
Other namesSleep sweats, nocturnal hyperhidrosis
SpecialtyInfectious disease, oncology

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Night sweats, or also referred to as nocturnal hyperhidrosis (Hyperhidrosis - a medical term for excessive sweating [1] + nocturnal - night) is the repeated occurrence of excessive sweating during sleep.[2] The person may or may not also perspire excessively while awake.

One of the most common causes of night sweats in women over 40 is the hormonal changes related to menopause and perimenopause.[3] This is a very common occurrence during the menopausal transition years. Over 80% of women experience hot flashes, which may include excessive sweating, during menopause. [4]

Night Sweating Men

Night sweats range from being relatively harmless to a sign of underlying disease. Night sweats may happen because the sleep environment is too warm, either because the bedroom is unusually hot or because there are too many covers on the bed.[2] Night sweats have been associated with a long list of clinical conditions.[5] However, there is very little evidence that supports clinical recommendations for this condition.[5]

Associated conditions[edit]

The condition may be a sign of various disease states, including but not exclusive to the following:

  • Cancers
    • Lymphoma[6][7]
    • Leukemia[6][7]
  • Infections
    • HIV/AIDS[6][8]
    • Tuberculosis[6][7]
    • Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection[6]
    • Infectious mononucleosis[6]
    • Fungal infections (histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis)[6]
    • Lung abscess[6]
    • Infective endocarditis[6]
    • Brucellosis[9]
    • Pneumocystis pneumonia (most often - in immunocompromised individuals)
  • Endocrine disorders
    • Menopause[10]
    • Premature ovarian failure[6]
    • Hyperthyroidism[6]
    • Diabetes mellitus (nocturnal hypoglycemia)[6]
    • Endocrine tumors (pheochromocytoma, carcinoid)[6]
    • Orchiectomy[6]
  • Rheumatic disorders
    • Takayasu's arteritis[6]
    • Temporal arteritis[6]
  • Other
    • Obstructive sleep apnea[6]
    • Gastroesophageal reflux disease[6]
    • Chronic fatigue syndrome[6]
    • Granulomatous disease[6]
    • Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia[6]
    • Lymphoid hyperplasia[6]
    • Diabetes insipidus[6]
    • Prinzmetal's angina[6]
    • Anxiety[6]
    • Pregnancy[6]
  • Drugs
    • Antipyretics (salicylates, acetaminophen)[6]
    • Antihypertensives[6]
    • Anabolic–androgenic steroids, in particular trenbolone, and the nandrolones[6]
    • Dinitrophenol - a common side effect
    • Phenothiazines[6]
    • Drug withdrawal: ethanol, benzodiazepines, heroin (and other opioids),
  • Over-bundling[6]
  • Autonomic over-activity[6]
  • Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) - Crohn's disease/ulcerative colitis

References[edit]

Occasional Sweating At Night
  1. ^'Hyperhidrosis - MeSH - NCBI'. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  2. ^ ab'Night sweats - Mayo Clinic'. www.mayoclinic.org. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
  3. ^T. F. Kruger; M. H. Botha (2008). Clinical Gynaecology. Juta and Company Ltd. p. 333. ISBN978-0-7021-7305-9.
  4. ^Bansal, Ramandeep; Aggarwal, Neelam (January–March 2019). 'Menopausal Hot Flashes: A Concise Review'. Journal of Mid-Life Health. 10 (1): 6–13. doi:10.4103/jmh.JMH_7_19. ISSN0976-7800. PMC6459071. PMID31001050.
  5. ^ abMold, James W.; Holtzclaw, Barbara J.; McCarthy, Laine (November–December 2012). 'Night sweats: a systematic review of the literature'. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine: JABFM. 25 (6): 878–893. doi:10.3122/jabfm.2012.06.120033. ISSN1558-7118. PMID23136329. S2CID24179827.
  6. ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafViera, Anthony J.; Bond, Michael M.; Yates, Scott W. (1 March 2003). 'Diagnosing Night Sweats'. American Family Physician. 67 (5): 1019–1024. PMID12643362. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  7. ^ abcJonathan E. Teitelbaum; Kathleen O. DeAntonis; Scott Kahan (2004). In a page: Pediatric signs & symptoms. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 6. ISBN978-1-4051-0427-2.
  8. ^Tao Le; Vikas Bhushan (2006). First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 CS. McGraw-Hill Professional. p. 74. ISBN978-0-07-147058-2.
  9. ^'Night sweats : Causes'. Mayo Clinic. 22 March 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  10. ^Deecher, D. C.; K. Dorries (2007). 'Understanding the pathophysiology of vasomotor symptoms (hot flushes and night sweats) that occur in perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause life stages'. Archives of Women's Mental Health. 10 (6): 247–257. doi:10.1007/s00737-007-0209-5. PMID18074100. S2CID21865706.

External links[edit]

Classification
  • ICD-10: R61
  • ICD-9-CM: 780.8, 327
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