What's the matter with sweating as soon as you fall asleep

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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 when they wake up. Although it's no different, it's also harmful to the human body. It needs early detection and treatment. So, what about sweating while sleeping?

What's the matter with sweating as soon as you fall asleep

First: this type of sleep sweating is more common in children, because children's skin is very tender, contains more water, rich capillaries, metabolism is strong, but has not yet sound autonomic nerve regulation function. Therefore, children are easy to sweat when they are active. If they are active before going to bed, their metabolism will be more active, resulting in increased heat. When they are asleep, their sweat glands will secrete more sweat, which is conducive to heat dissipation.

Second: 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.

Third: if children eat before going to bed, the secretion of gastric juice will also become more, causing a corresponding increase in sweat gland secretion, so that children sweat a lot when they sleep, especially in the first two hours of sleep. In addition, when the human body is sleeping, the indoor temperature is too high, the quilt is too thick, these environmental factors will cause physiological sleep sweating.

matters needing attention

Night sweats, sleep must pay attention to ventilation, maintain indoor air circulation, and often drink water.