Sweating in the middle of the night

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Sweating during sleep is called "night sweat" in medicine. People with night sweats have abnormal sweating after sleeping, but they won't sweat after waking up. What causes it? Let me introduce it to you.

Sweating in the middle of the night

If you have more activity before going to bed, your body's metabolism will be more active, leading to an increase in heat. When you fall asleep, your sweat glands will secrete more sweat, which is conducive to heat dissipation. In addition, if children eat before going to bed, the secretion of gastric juice will also become more, causing a corresponding increase in sweat gland secretion.

After falling asleep, if sweating time above midnight, it is generally caused by low blood calcium. Low calcium will increase the excitability of sympathetic nerve, increase the secretion of sweat glands, such sleep sweating phenomenon is more common in rickets patients. If there is tuberculosis patients sleep sweating, often all night sweating, and accompanied by ultra red complexion, loss of appetite, emotional ups and downs and other symptoms. Many diseases that affect the body's thermoregulatory center and make sympathetic nerves excited can cause pathological sleep sweating.

People who have the phenomenon of sweating during sleep should pay attention to changing their clothes frequently, taking a bath frequently, preparing a soft cloth to wipe the body, or using some baby powder to keep the skin dry and reduce the stimulation of sweat to the skin. If you're sweating. Don't blow directly to avoid catching a cold.

matters needing attention

If the conditions at home permit, the indoor temperature and humidity should be properly adjusted, especially for the sleeping and sweating patients with Yin deficiency and blood heat, the living environment should be cool.