Minggu, 11 September 2011

If the Frequent Night Sweating

Night sweats can occur if the temperature is hot in the bedroom or use a thick bed clothes that do not absorb sweat. But if the condition does not occur, but still experienced excessive sweating at night, you should find out what causes it.
In a study of 2267 patients who visit doctors, found that about 41 percent of men reported experiencing excessive sweating at night for a month or more. This indicates that the condition is already a common thing that people often complain about.
There are many different causes of night sweats. To determine what the cause, doctors usually must use a complete medical history and diagnostic tests to decide what conditions that underlie it.
As quoted from WebMD, Wednesday (26/05/2010) there are some conditions that are known to cause a person experiences excessive sweating at night, namely:

Menopause, the transition period when a woman will enter menopause often cause a person experiences excessive sweating and this condition is very common cause of postmenopausal women aged.Idiopathic hyperhidrosis, a condition where the sweat glands in the body produces too much sweat and until now not known medical cause is identified.Infection, there are various kinds of infections that can cause a person sweat at night, but the infection most often associated with this condition is tuberculosis. There was also a variety of other infections that trigger these conditions such as infective endocarditis (inflammation of the heart valves), osteomyelitis (inflammation of the bone) or HIV infection.
Cancer, some types of cancer are also associated with this condition such as lymphoma, usually accompanied by other symptoms such as weight loss and unexplained fever. Certain medications, certain drugs have some side effects such as night sweats antidepressants, psychiatric drugs, fever-lowering medications that contain aspirin and acetaminophen, high doses of niacin (a drug for lipid disorders), tamoxifen, nitroglycerin and Viagra.
Hypoglycemia, the condition of the body that have low blood sugar levels can also cause night sweats.Hormone disruption, not all hormonal disorder causing night sweats, but some disruption of hormones that trigger this condition is a pheochromocytoma, carcinoid syndrome and hyperthyroidism (excess thyroid hormone levels to normal).Neurological conditions, several neurological conditions including stroke, autonomic dysreflexia or post-trauma.

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