Sweating at night: causes and treatment

The human body has a function of sweating, which is necessary to regulate body temperature. With the help of sweat, the skin is protected and cooled. Therefore, normally a person should sweat at elevated temperature or during physical exercises. Another cause of sweating may be a stressful situation or nausea. However, sweating at night is a pathological symptom associated with other factors.

So, if a child sweats in a dream, then the cause may be hyperactivity. However, with similar manifestations in adults, the doctor should be alerted and diagnosed to exclude the development of a serious disease. In some cases, night sweats are a symptom of generalized general sweating. Rarely, such manifestations are symptoms of lymphogranulomatosis and tuberculosis.

Also, sweating at night causes such diseases as gastroesophageal reflux, immunodeficiency states, tumors, obstructive sleep apnea, hyperthyroidism, hypoglycemia. In addition, sweating can provoke drugs from temperature, to reduce pressure, etc.

A very common cause, as a result of which there is a regular intense sweating at night, are tumorous diseases, which, when in the stage of metastasis, cause a fever. The less common cause is lymphogranulomatosis. As a result of the disease, lymph nodes are affected. About the disease you can not even guess, and only sweating at night becomes the only symptom. If you are cured of the disease, sweating will pass.

Lymphoma is also a secretive disease that affects the lymph nodes. Symptoms are sweating with weakness, fever, enlarged lymph nodes. Metastatic squeezing of the spinal cord increases sweating, including in sleep, the symptoms are accompanied by poor health, weight loss, worsening appetite.

To reduce sweating at night and even get rid of it, you can use folk methods of treatment. Brew two tablespoons herbal collection of sage and yarrow in half a liter of boiling water. Use a decoction for lotions, baths and compresses. Apply as a remedy for sweating and st. A spoon of rhizomes of the herb of the mountaineer snake, which is brewed in a liter of boiling water. Take three times a day for half a glass.

When worried about excessive sweating at night, use a third of the glass of the herbal extract of St. John's wort (50 g), lemon balm (20 g), linden flowers (20 g), valerian roots (10 g), marsh swine (40 g), violet trichrome 10 g), a large celandine (10 g). Two spoons of the mixture boil for 10 minutes, stand for an hour, drink three times a day.

To reduce sweating at night wipe with an aqueous solution of vinegar (water - vinegar, a proportion of two to one) will help. Another way: a hundred grams of oak bark is boiled in a liter of water and then applied to sweating areas of the skin or baths used for limbs. With diaper rash and inflammation accompanying sweating, you can try a compress from the infusion of alteyny root. The medicine is prepared by grinding the roots, which are poured with water (1:20), the hour is insisted and filtered. On the inflamed skin for 10 minutes put gauze compresses, the procedure is repeated after 40 minutes. Then the skin should be dried and sprinkled with talc.

Vodka tincture of birch buds is rubbed twice a day by the skin.
Also, twice a day, 20 drops of valerian are taken with a calcium gluconate tablet.

To reduce sweating, you need to exclude coffee from the diet. Instead, it is necessary to switch to herbal teas from melissa, mint, oregano, sage and ginger root.