What causes night sweats & its management? - Dr. Mahesh DM

Night sweats is usually uncommon because usually we now that the temperature is low in the night and therefore we don’t sweat unless it is a very hot summer where you know that you are sleeping on the top floor and there is no AC and you sweat, so typically that is known as night sweats. The night sweats is because of many causes. Few I would like to discuss is which are typically related to endocrine problems. The first one is a low sugar, that is a hypoglycemia, that is the sugars will come down, you can have sweating in the night especially in people who are taking insulin or medicines or who won’t eat properly. It can be because of hypoglycemic disorder which is known as insulinemia where the sugar values can come very low and you can getting sweat in the night even though they are not on any medicine. The third important cause is that sometimes patients with thyroid problems can have increased thyroid levels in the body and that can cause sweating which can be there in the day tine and also sometimes even in the night. These are the typical causes of night sweats we need to look at. Rarely it can be seen in patients with psychiatric disorders where they can have nightmares and adrenal glands are hyper functioning due to stress levels and therefore they can have sweating. There is another important cause of night sweats which is typically seen. Usually in post-menopausal women, that’s women who attain menopause, usually in the age group of 45 to 50, usually hot flushes, night sweats, variation of hormonal levels will cause lot of mood disturbance, sweating, temperature going up, feeling of fever. This typical symptom is called as hot flushes which can be seen in women who attain menopause, it can be seen in one year of menopause and it can extend upto 2 to 3 years after attaining menopause. So you consult an appropriate doctor, a gynecologist or an endocrinologist and some medicines which are available which can reduce the intensity of these symptoms. They usually reduce over a period of time. These night sweats also seen in other who undergo surgery like patients who are undergoing prostatic cancer or testicular cancer have removal of their external genital organ, namely the testis. So they can cause sudden decrease of their testosterone levels and that can cause sweating and night sweats, hot flushes. In men it is not common, but it is a condition we need to remember. Women who undergo removal of the uterus, along with that if their ovaries are also removed, then they can have these symptoms post-surgery, so these are the various reasons why you can have night sweats and you need to consult a doctor to find out the cause and take appropriate medicines accordingly.

[janadubcova]

Forget about the accent. Great doctors don't have to speak fluent English. Over the years, I've noticed that Asian doctors have much more knowledge that they willingly share when it comes to ''women's health''
Thank you 🙏

[Tromminator]

I’m sure this was good information, but it was hard getting past the accent.

[javaidiqbal]

I am 78. I have night seeating precedided by hot body and accompanied by raised in blood pressire to 140/86. Then I wake up. Most of the time it is followed by lowering down of the body temperAture. Except my creatinine 1.63, general body temperature 94 and 110 platelet count other tests are normal, I am male. I had dengue 7 years back and once had this episode about 4 years back, I have slightly enlarged prostate but the doctor says that it is not much enlarged requiring procedure/ operation

[crisbegin]

I just thought I’d share my fix for night sweats! I wanted to wait at least a month of trying it before I posted but I can now say that it works for me and I now have a happy girlfriend that’s not washing bedding every single day lol. It’s called the perfect sleep pad. It’s a sheet that goes on your bed that has waterlines in it that are hooked up to a machine which either cools or heats the water whatever you set it at. Every part of my body on the sheet stays bone dry now I’m sleeping through the whole night now this thing puts me in such a deep sleep I feel so rested lately. The only part I haven’t been able to fix is my head and pits still sweat a bit but it’s night and day compared to what I was dealing with before and I know it’s working cause if I fall asleep anywhere else like the couch or something I’m soaked lol. I’ll leave the link here for the model I got there was also a coupon code I found when I ordered it saved me quite a bit like 25%. I’m not sure if it’s still an active promotion but worth a shot. I’ll leave it here too because they are pretty pricey but if you’re someone like me it’s definitely worth every penny I have zero regrets and I look forward to using it all summer too!
Coupon code is sleepdeep25

[mo]

Do menapause night sweats last more than 10 years?

[justinebourke]

This is the best information I have got on this subject yet..most doctors know and care fuck all about this ..thankyou.

[beingpsychologist]

ये तो हमने पढ़ ही लिया था न। टाई लगाकर बताने से ज्यादा सही हो जायेगा??

[omkarjoshi]

सर, आप इसे हिंदी में भी बोल सकतें है।

[optimistic]

You should learn hindi first...before learning something

[ashleynolan]

Well done, making the excess sweating stop within 2 days was so much more than I expected, I went with what I talked about last week and after the first day or so I was very surprised to start feeling much more comfortable and dry! I went ahead and go'ogled the latest by Cynthia Yulesin and after 72 hours I now sweat like a “normal” person lol

[miakim]

what language is he speaking? sounds terrible