What causes women to sweat at night?

After sleeping, we will have symptoms such as dreaming and sweating. Dreaming is caused by many reasons, while sweating represents more complicated reasons. There are differences between children and adults when they sweat while sleeping, and the problem of women sweating at night is also different. So what is the reason for women sweating at night? Patients need to find the main factors in order to better understand the cause of sweating after sleeping, and the treatment can be more reasonable.

In medicine, sweating while awake is called "spontaneous sweating", and sweating during sleep is called "night sweats". Night sweats is a disease name in traditional Chinese medicine. It is a symptom characterized by abnormal sweating after falling asleep and stopping sweating after waking up. "Dao" means stealing. Ancient doctors used the sneaky activities of thieves at night to describe the symptoms of this disease, which is that every time people fall asleep or just close their eyes and are about to fall asleep, sweat secretes like a thief. Sweating while sleeping at night can basically be divided into two types: one is physiological factors, and the other is pathological factors.

Traditional Chinese medicine has had a relatively deep understanding of night sweats for a long time. In the "Huangdi Neijing" written during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was called "night sweats." "Qing" means sleeping. There is an idiom called "ignore sleep and forget food", which means that he does not care about sleeping and forgets to eat. Obviously, "night sweats" means sweating while sleeping. In the Han Dynasty, the medical saint Zhang Zhongjing used the vivid name "night sweats" to name the disease in which people sweat in their sleep in his book "Golden Chamber". Since then, successive generations of doctors have continued to use this name. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that night sweats are mostly caused by kidney yin deficiency.

Due to hyperthyroidism, excessive thyroid hormone is secreted and the metabolic rate increases, which manifests as increased nerve excitability. Overexcitement of the sympathetic nerves can cause heat intolerance, excessive sweating, and night sweats.

The main reason for excessive sweating in diabetic patients is autonomic nervous system dysfunction and sympathetic nerve excitement, which leads to increased secretion of sweat glands; secondly, increased blood sugar metabolism rate is also one of the reasons for excessive sweating in diabetic patients.

Night sweats are one of the symptoms of tuberculosis poisoning. It is the result of the toxins of tuberculosis bacteria and their metabolites stimulating the central nervous system, leading to dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system.

In addition, diseases such as hypertension, menopausal syndrome, hypoglycemia, systemic lupus erythematosus, endocarditis, as well as physical weakness, mental tension, and psychological pressure after surgery may cause night sweats. However, most night sweats are caused by autonomic nervous system dysfunction, and its pathogenesis is mainly due to abnormal excitement of the sympathetic nerves.

Night sweats during menopause are a common phenomenon. From a Western medical perspective, it is due to the onset of menopause, which causes endocrine and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. However, traditional Chinese medicine explains that it is caused by yin deficiency, internal heat, hyperactivity of false yang and lack of body fluids. Therefore, nourishing yin is the main focus during treatment. Although night sweats during menopause are normal, if they seriously affect your daily life, you still need treatment.

The above article explains the reasons why women sweat at night. The main reason is night sweats, and patients are also likely to experience excessive night sweats after suffering from serious illnesses. When the patient has not found the cause for a long time and the condition has become more complicated, he or she can go to the hospital for a formal examination. Only after the examination can the cause be found and the treatment of the symptom will be effective. Otherwise, women's sweating at night will not be improved, and the harm to women will increase.