What Are Common Causes of Severe Night Sweats?

Abnormal sweating due to general debility. Abnormal sweating due to physical weakness or suffering from a certain disease. Slight sweating may cause sweating. Severe sweating may occur in severe cases. Shock and syncope may occur in severe cases. Night sweats are often seen in tuberculosis. Night sweats and spontaneous sweating belong to the category of asthma. The former are mostly yin deficiency, and the latter are more common. Both are caused by physical weakness, but they are often ignored because they do not have much discomfort. In fact, children's night sweats and sweating cannot be ignored, because often sweating can easily lead to dehydration, disturbance of electrolyte balance in the body, loss of trace elements, and so on. Light sensation dizziness, soft body, pale complexion, loss of appetite, restless sleep, and wasted body; severe muscle convulsions, palpitation, shortness of breath, memory loss, developmental delay, and mental retardation. Children who sweat excessively must not be taken lightly and should be treated promptly.

Basic Information

Visiting department

Traditional Chinese Medicine

Multiple groups

Frailty, children

Common causes

Physically weak or suffering from a certain illness

Common symptoms

Sweating or sweating when moving, severe shock, fainting, death, etc.

Causes of asthenia and common diseases

Hyperhidrosis, Tuberculosis, Septic Shock, Anaphylactic Shock, Shock Pneumonia, Traumatic Shock, Myelodysmia, Sweat Herpes, Burns, Heat Stroke, Sweating Adenocarcinoma, Cortical Hyperhidrosis, Senile Shock, Lower Thalamic hyperhidrosis, sweat syndrome, etc.

Sweating check

Examine the body's trace elements and electrolytes, and the secretory function of sweat glands. In addition, auxiliary inspections were performed to find out the cause of the sweat syndrome.

Differential diagnosis of asthenia

Sweating symptoms need to be distinguished from the symptoms below.

1. Hyperhidrosis

Excessive sweating on the whole or local skin. The causes of hyperhidrosis can generally be divided into two types: organic diseases and dysfunctions. According to the causes of excessive sweat, they can be divided into neurohidrosis and non-neurohidrosis, sweating in hyperhidrosis patients. And facial flushing completely lost normal control. Sweating and facial flushing make patients feel helpless, anxious, or panic every day.

2. Sweating

Sweat caused by panic or shock, cold hands and feet when sweating, so called cold sweat. Cold sweats: refers to the conscious cold feeling caused by sweating caused by tension, fear or illness. He does not have fever before sweating, does not have a thirsty mouth, and is often accompanied by chills such as lack of energy, pale face, thin stools, clear urine, delayed pulse, pale tongue, etc. It is usually caused by deficiency of yang and insufficient health, but also caused by fright.

3. Night sweats

Night sweats may be caused by qi deficiency or yin deficiency. If it is caused by qi deficiency, the vasodilation function is generally not good. It can be adjusted with Buzhong Yiqi Decoction plus or minus. Night sweats caused by insufficient blood and palpitations should be reduced. The heart is treated by the Guipi Decoction plus and minus prescription; if it is caused by yin deficiency constitution and the body has dryness and fever, night sweats may also occur. At this time, Liuwei Dihuang Wan plus and minus prescription can be used to improve it; Yi Ziyin to lower fire, use Angelica Liuhuang Tang plus and minus prescription.

Sweating Treatment Principles

Yiqi Yangyin, solid antiperspirant. According to the clinical deficiency of patients with qi, blood, yin and yang, nourishing yin, nourishing blood, nourishing qi, and fuyang were used. Add sweat products, such as genus of plum, schisandra, keel, oyster. If necessary, you can apply sweat to skin. If the shock is followed by sweating, anti-shock therapy is required.