The body sweats a lot in summer

Summer is here, and the hot weather makes people feel like they are sweating every day. Excessive sweating will have certain effects on the body. For example, for some people, excessive sweating may be a sign of physical weakness, and hypoglycemia and low blood pressure are common. However, for some people, sweating in the summer is a sign of detoxification and normal metabolism. If your metabolic function is good, you will sweat more, so is it good or bad to sweat more in the summer?

6 amazing benefits of sweating in summer

1. Moisturizing and skin care

The process of human sweating is the process of toxins being discharged from the pores. When sweating, the oil and various debris secreted from the skin will be discharged from the body, which helps to clean the skin and reduce rough skin.

2. Lose weight and prevent disease

Sweating helps consume excess energy in the body, promotes the decomposition of fat, and has a certain weight-loss effect. Therefore, girls who usually want to lose weight should exercise more and sweat more in the summer.

3. Improve immunity

Studies have shown that the antimicrobial peptides contained in sweat have the effect of resisting viral invasion. Sweating more on a regular basis can improve the body's immunity and help prevent colds.

4. Improve digestion

In addition to dietary adjustments and medication, indigestion in the summer can actually be treated by exercise to promote digestion. Because sweating during exercise helps the body's metabolism, accelerates gastrointestinal motility, and improves gastrointestinal digestion.

5. Stabilize blood pressure

Exercise and sweating help dilate the body's capillaries, promote blood circulation, increase the elasticity of blood vessel walls, and thus stabilize blood pressure.

6. Detoxification and cancer prevention

Sweating is an important means of detoxification and cancer prevention. Sweat is one of the main ways to excrete harmful substances such as arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury from the body. Heavy metal components in sweat can be detected at concentrations comparable to those in urine, and sometimes even higher than in urine.

Why do I sweat a lot in the hot summer?

Normal sweating is a physiological phenomenon of human metabolism, but "excessive sweating" is abnormal. Regardless of the cause of excessive sweating, Western medicine diagnoses it as "spontaneous hyperhidrosis"; Chinese medicine diagnoses it as "sweat disease." Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "sweating disease" is caused by weakness, so it is called "false sweating".

What causes excessive sweating in summer? Excessive sweating is most common in children. This is mainly because children's bodies are still developing in all aspects, and the autonomic nervous function that regulates sweating is not yet perfect, so excessive sweating is more common. A few people believe that children's excessive sweating is caused by calcium deficiency. Some medical sales personnel also say it is due to calcium deficiency. In fact, this is not the case at all. I went to the hospital to check my blood calcium concentration, and it was normal; if you take calcium supplements in large quantities or for a long time, you may not sweat less.

Adults who are overworked, ill, or have weakened physical fitness, or women who have given birth, are in menopause, or are elderly and weak are susceptible to sweating sickness. These adults sweat a lot. No matter what the initial cause of the disease is, the final link is the damage of autonomic nervous function and then the autonomic nervous function disorder. However, traditional Chinese medicine has different descriptions of the causes of excessive sweating.

How to treat excessive sweating in summer? There are many antiperspirants in Chinese herbal medicine. When you go to the hospital for treatment, Chinese medicine practitioners often prescribe decoctions to treat excessive sweating. Decoctions are inconvenient to take and the effects are uncertain. In the past, we did not pay much attention to the treatment of excessive sweating, and it could be said that there was no other solution. Qixing Xuhanting Granules is a new pure Chinese medicine for the treatment of excessive sweating and night sweats in China. It is the product of the perfect combination of traditional ancient prescriptions and modern technology, and is a national protected Chinese medicine variety. Qixing Xuhanting Granules targets the above-mentioned fundamental causes of excessive sweating in children and adults, regulates the autonomic nervous function, corrects the deviation and suppresses the hyperactivity, restores the autonomic nervous function to normal, and cures the sweating disorder. According to traditional Chinese medicine, Xuhanting Granules can replenish qi and nourish yin, consolidate the exterior and restrain sweat. Replenishing qi can treat spontaneous sweating due to qi deficiency, while nourishing yin can treat night sweats due to yin deficiency, so the treatment of sweating disorders is not difficult.

I believe that many people now have a new understanding of severe sweating in summer. In fact, sweating is not only a healthy detoxification behavior, but may also be an unhealthy symptom of physical weakness. A common symptom of people with colds and fevers is sweating. Therefore, once you sweat severely in summer, do not ignore this situation and go to the hospital for examination in time. Good health is more important than anything else.

Why do I sweat a lot in summer?

Because people sweat more in hot weather, excessive sweating can take away a lot of potassium, which will cause excessive loss of potassium ions in the body and cause hypokalemia, which can cause symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, headache, poor appetite, and lack of energy.

The most effective way to prevent potassium deficiency in hot weather is to eat more potassium-containing foods. Fresh vegetables and fruits contain more potassium, so you can eat more strawberries, peaches, etc.; vegetables such as spinach, potatoes, onions, celery, edamame, etc. are also rich in potassium. Tea contains a particularly high amount of potassium, accounting for about 1.5%. Drinking more tea on hot days can not only relieve heat but also replenish potassium, which is killing two birds with one stone.

Sweat gland secretion is closely related to exercise intensity: the general rule is that the greater the exercise intensity, the more sweat you produce. Because as the intensity of exercise increases, muscle activity becomes more intense and more heat is produced. In order to maintain normal body temperature, the human body must increase sweating to dissipate excess heat. Therefore, the greater the intensity of exercise, the more sweating will inevitably increase.

The amount of sweating is first related to individual differences: as we all know, sweat comes from the secretion of sweat glands, and the number of sweat glands is extremely large. Millions of sweat glands can be roughly divided into two categories: one is the small sweat glands, which are widely distributed under the skin all over the body, with an average of about 300 per square centimeter, and a total of about 2.3 million in the body. When exercising or the external temperature rises, the human body mainly relies on these sweat glands to sweat. Physiologists call this type of sweating thermal sweating. The other type is the apocrine sweat glands, which are distributed under the skin in the armpits, nipples, vulva and other parts. When people are frightened, excited or humiliated, it is mainly this gland that sweats. Physiologists call this type of sweating neurogenic sweating.

Physiological studies have found that the number of small glands and large glands varies not only between genders, but also between individuals. Therefore, under the same conditions, some people sweat more and some people sweat less. In addition, individual differences are also reflected in the amount of body fluids. Some people have more body fluids and sweat more when exercising; some people have less body fluids and sweat less when exercising. The amount of body fluid often depends on the body fat content. Because adipose tissue contains relatively less water, fat people have relatively less body fluid than thin people.

What causes sweating easily?

Sun surface deficiency

The whole body is sweating, accompanied by fever, aversion to wind, headache and neck pain, nasal congestion, thin white tongue coating, and floating and slow pulse.

Yangming heat

Profuse sweating all over the body, with a large amount of sweat, high fever or hot flashes, thirst and preference for cold drinks, red face, red tongue with dry yellow coating, and a strong and powerful pulse.

Heat damages Qi and body fluids

The whole body is sweating continuously, accompanied by symptoms of irritability and thirst, chest tightness, shortness of breath and lack of strength. People also easily become tired and exhausted, with a red tongue, yellow tongue coating, and a strong, weak or rapid pulse.

Moisture and heat

Sweating all over the body, head, hands and feet, sticky and bitter taste in the mouth, thirst without desire to drink, body heat, limb fatigue and irritability, abdominal distension and poor appetite, difficulty urinating, red tongue with yellow greasy coating, and stringy, slippery and rapid pulse.