The difference between spontaneous sweating and night sweats

In our daily lives, some people's immune function declines as they age, and many people will suffer from physical weakness and prone to sweating and night sweats. The symptoms vary according to age. Some people often sweat when they sleep at night due to physical weakness, and their hands and feet feel hot. These are manifestations of physical weakness. When suffering from these symptoms, you can first adjust them through food supplements. As the saying goes, "Food supplements are worse than medicine supplements."

Question 1: Spontaneous sweating and night sweats are both abnormal sweating. Spontaneous sweating refers to sweating during the day. Patients will sweat profusely with just the slightest movement. Most spontaneous sweating is caused by qi deficiency. When a person's qi is weak, the retaining function is insufficient, and sweat cannot be retained, so it is easy to sweat profusely and cause spontaneous sweating. Night sweats are sweating at night that stops during the day. They are often caused by yin deficiency and are often accompanied by symptoms such as irritability and hot hands and feet.

Question 2: Night sweats and spontaneous sweating are both abnormal sweating. Spontaneous sweating refers to sweating during the day, or it can also be considered as sweating profusely with the slightest movement; this phenomenon is usually caused by Qi deficiency. As the patient's retention function is reduced, sweat cannot be retained, resulting in abnormal sweating. Night sweats refer to sweating while sleeping at night, and the sweating stops on its own when you wake up during the day. It is usually caused by yin deficiency.

Question 3: Spontaneous sweating and night sweats are believed by traditional Chinese medicine to be caused by imbalance of yin and yang and neglect of pores, which leads to abnormal sweat leakage. This disease is not affected by any external environment, physical activity or psychological emotions. It is an abnormal sweating, also known as "abnormal sweating". "Spontaneous sweating" is characterized by sweating when not moving, and sweating more when moving. "Night sweats" are characterized by sweating while sleeping and stopping sweating when waking up. Both are common in life. "Spontaneous sweating" is mostly caused by weak qi, and patients are very likely to experience "symptoms such as colds, fatigue, pale complexion, and thin white tongue coating." . "Night sweats" are caused by yin deficiency and internal heat, and will cause symptoms such as "night sweats, hot hands and feet, irritability and dry mouth, and red tongue with little coating". Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "sweat is the fluid of the heart". If night sweats do not stop for a long time, the heart yin is severely damaged and should be actively treated. While receiving treatment, you should also pay special attention to self-care. The ancients said that "food supplements are worse than medicine supplements." People who suffer from spontaneous sweating should eat chicken, duck, fish, eggs, yam, lentils, mutton, longan, dog meat, etc.; people who suffer from night sweating should eat fish, soft-shelled turtle, toad, pork liver, white fungus, spinach, cabbage, etc. It is better to eat raw and cold vegetables, and less cold dishes; people with night sweats should not eat spicy food, and try to drink less or no alcohol. Spontaneous sweating and night sweats are merely external manifestations, which may be caused by a variety of diseases, such as hyperthyroidism, autonomic nervous system dysfunction, tuberculosis, rheumatism and chronic wasting disease, etc. Therefore, while treating sweating syndrome, more attention should be paid to its primary lesion.

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