What is the disease of sweating when sleeping at night?

We know that children sweat when they sleep at night, especially on their heads. Adults also have the problem of sweating. What is the disease that causes sweating when sleeping at night? Sweating at night while sleeping is mostly night sweats, which are divided into physiological night sweats and pathological night sweats. Pathological night sweats are related to calcium deficiency, while children often sweat in the second half of the night when they sleep, which is mostly due to physiological factors.

1. What is the disease of sweating when sleeping at night?

Sweating while sleeping is also called "night sweats". Medically, sweating while awake is called "spontaneous sweating", and sweating during sleep is called "night sweats". Night sweats is the name of a disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine, which refers to abnormal sweating after falling asleep, and the sweating stops after waking up.

2. Reasons for sweating while sleeping

1. Physiological night sweats

If a child is too active before going to bed, the body's metabolism will become more active, causing an increase in body heat. After falling asleep, the sweat glands will secrete more, causing profuse sweating. When children eat before going to bed, their bodies will secrete more gastric juice, which in turn causes increased secretion of sweat glands, causing children to sweat profusely at night. In addition, when the human body is sleeping, if the indoor temperature is too high, the quilt is too thick, etc., it will cause physiological sweating.

2. Pathological sweating:

After falling asleep, if sweating occurs mainly in the first half of the night, it is usually caused by low blood calcium. Low calcium will increase the excitability of the sympathetic nerves and increase the secretion of sweat glands. This phenomenon of sweating during sleep is more common in patients with rickets. If a patient with tuberculosis sweats while sleeping, he often sweats all night, accompanied by symptoms such as extremely red face, loss of appetite, and mood swings. Many diseases that affect the body's temperature regulation center and excite the sympathetic nerves can cause pathological sweating during sleep.

3. How to prevent and treat sweating while sleeping

1. Keep dry: change clothes and quilts frequently, take a bath frequently, keep the skin dry, and reduce the irritation of sweat on the skin.

2. Lower the temperature: Appropriately adjust the indoor temperature and humidity. Especially for patients with yin deficiency and blood heat who sweat while sleeping, they should try to live in a cooler environment.

3. Pay attention to your diet: pay more attention to treating the symptoms and adjust your eating habits! People with yin deficiency, blood heat and excessive fire should avoid spicy food, not drink alcohol, and eat more vegetables that can clear away heat.

4. Physical exercise: Strengthen physical exercise, develop correct and regular work and rest habits, combine work and rest, and allow the body to have the conditions for treatment.