Can menopause cause night sweats?

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Night sweats is a fairly common symptom in many subjects, including menopausal women. Although not life-threatening, this condition causes effects on daily life, so it is necessary to find out the cause and how to thoroughly treat the problem of night sweats.

1. Common causes of night sweats

In fact, there are many causes of night sweats, which may be caused by internal causes or by inappropriate sleeping conditions, which also cause the patient to sweat at night, causing clothes to fall. as bed sheets become wet, causing inconvenience in sleep. Therefore, it is important to distinguish between hot flushes on the face and night sweats.
1.1 Menopausal Women The hot flashes that accompany menopause can occur at night, causing night sweats and are considered the most common cause of the condition. This is in women.
1.2 Idiopathic Hyperhidrosis Syndrome This is a chronic condition in which the body produces excessive amounts of sweat for a long time without finding any medical cause that can adequately explain the phenomenon. this.
1.3 Infectious sweating In infection, TB is the most common infection associated with night sweats. However, other bacterial infections such as endocarditis (a form of heart valve inflammation), osteomyelitis, and abscessed conditions can also cause night sweats. Especially, for a very dangerous immunodeficiency disease that is HIV, in patients with this disease, night sweats are also very common.

1.4 Cancer Night sweats are an early symptom of cancer. The type of cancer most associated with this symptom is Lymphoma. However, patients with undiagnosed cancer have other suspicious signs such as unusual weight loss or fever in the evening.
1.5 Drug causes Using certain medications also causes night sweats. One of them is an antidepressant with a reported rate that about 8%-22% of people using an antidepressant will experience night sweats. Some other psychiatric medications have also been associated with night sweats or some antipyretics such as Aspirin, Acetaminophen also cause sweating.
1.6 Hypoglycemia Patients who use insulin or are being treated for diabetes often experience low blood sugar at night, when blood sugar is low, leading to a number of typical symptoms, including: night sweat.
1.7 Hormonal Disorders Night sweats or hot flashes may be associated with a number of hormone disorders such as pheochromocytoma, carcinoid syndrome or hyperthyroidism.

1.8 Neurological problems Usually, neurological conditions such as autonomic dysfunction, dysreflexia after trauma, stroke, and certain autonomic nervous system diseases can be May cause night sweats.
Night sweats can come from many causes, belonging to many disorders of different organ systems in the body, including the common cause of menopause.
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Reference source: webmd.com