Night sweats - Rejuvenate Clinic

Night sweats

Night sweats refer to episodes of extreme sweating during sleep. They can soak your nightclothes and bedding and may make you feel cold, clammy, or chilled after waking up.

Night sweats have several potential causes:

• Menopause is a common cause in middle-aged women. The hot flashes and night sweats associated with menopause can disrupt sleep. Hormone therapy may help.
• Infections like tuberculosis, endocarditis (infection of the heart valves), and HIV/AIDS can all trigger severe night sweats. Treating the underlying infection typically resolves sweating.
• Cancers, especially lymphoma and leukemia, may provoke drenching night sweats. Other cancers like bone, liver, and kidney cancer also raise the risk. When caught early, many cancers are treatable.
• Medications like antidepressants, diabetes drugs, hormones, steroids, and some blood pressure and heart medications might trigger sweating at night. Adjusting medication dosage often helps.
• Neurologic conditions like stroke and peripheral neuropathy can disrupt temperature regulation and cause night sweats in some people.
• Anxiety disorders, particularly panic attacks that strike during sleep, provoke sweating and chills. Relaxation techniques and therapy aid many people.
• Idiopathic (unknown cause) hyperhidrosis leads to excessive sweating day and night in some otherwise healthy people. Strong clinical strength antiperspirants applied before bedtime can help.

In addition to the above causes, supplements, spicy foods, warm rooms, thick bedding, alcohol, menopausal hot flashes, infections, and some medications may also increase night sweat risk.

If you regularly wake up drenched in sweat without an obvious cause, talk to your doctor. They can check for infections, hormone changes, cancers, and other possible reasons. Tracking episodes and triggers in a symptom diary can help pinpoint patterns.

Simple lifestyle changes like keeping cool, losing excess weight, avoiding spicy foods, and wearing moisture-wicking sleepwear may ease mild night sweats. For more troublesome cases, prescription strength antiperspirants, hormone therapy, medications, or treating underlying causes offers relief.

Let your doctor know if night sweats persist, affect your sleep, or occur along with unexplained weight loss or fever. Evaluation is important to determine if an underlying condition needs treatment. Catching problems early makes many night sweat triggers manageable.

If you're experiencing night sweats, consider consulting with the experts at Rejuvenate Clinic for a thorough evaluation and personalized treatment plan.