What is the reason for sweating at night?

Everyone knows that people are busy all day long. At night, the body is most relaxed, and this is when we most want to have a good sleep. But even so, there are still many patients who are not satisfied and sweat when they sleep at night, which seriously affects the quality of their sleep. It also has a great impact on daytime work. So, what is the reason for sweating at night?

Sweating while sleeping is called night sweats

In medicine, sweating while awake is called "spontaneous sweating", and sweating during sleep is called "night sweats". Night sweats is a disease name in traditional Chinese medicine. It is a symptom characterized by abnormal sweating after falling asleep and stopping sweating after waking up. "Dao" means stealing. Ancient doctors used the sneaky activities of thieves at night to describe the disease that every time people fall asleep or just close their eyes and are about to fall asleep, sweat secretes like a thief.

Etiology and pathogenesis

1. Kidney Yin deficiency: deficiency leads to Yang excess, deficiency leads to

Heat is generated internally, and the Yin Qi is empty. When you sleep, the Wei Qi takes advantage of the emptiness and sinks into the Yin. There is no protection on the surface, and the skin surface is not tight. The fire in the Rong is strong outside, steaming and hot, forcing the body fluid to leak out and causing sweating. When awake, the Qi is solidified on the surface, the Xuanfu is tightly closed and the sweating stops in the Yin.

2. Tuberculosis

Diet therapy for night sweats in children

Square 1

20g Astragalus, 50g Japonica rice,

Appropriate amount of white sugar. Boil the Astragalus membranaceus in water, use the juice to cook rice into porridge, add sugar for seasoning and drink it warm.

Efficacy Tips: Astragalus is sweet and slightly warm in nature. It has the effects of replenishing Qi, raising Yang, consolidating the exterior and stopping sweating.

Square 2

150 grams of raw Rehmannia root, 1 black-meat chicken, 100 grams of maltose. Chop the raw Rehmannia root into small pieces, mix it with maltose, put it into the chicken and steam it until cooked.

Efficacy Tips: Raw Rehmannia root is sweet, cold in nature, nourishes yin and cools blood. Black chicken is sweet in taste and neutral in nature. It can replenish deficiency and fatigue, and treat thirst, nausea and abdominal pain. This recipe has the effect of nourishing yin and stopping night sweats.

Folk remedies for night sweats

According to the ninth volume of Compendium of Materia Medica by Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty, "fine stone, also known as "Hanshui stone", is mainly used to treat cold and heat in stroke, and has the effect of relieving muscle pain.

It can induce sweating, relieve dry mouth, tongue, headache, toothache, etc. It is a good medicine for eliminating plague and relieving fever. "According to traditional Chinese medicine theory and folk use, night sweats are a heat symptom. Using a gypsum pillow can effectively control the symptoms of night sweats by using cold to overcome heat, thus playing the role of "treating internal diseases with external treatment".

Self-care

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "sweat is the fluid of the heart". If night sweats do not stop for a long time, the heart yin is severely damaged and should be actively treated. While receiving treatment, you should also pay special attention to self-care. The main points are as follows:

(1) While taking medication

, we should strengthen necessary physical exercise, develop regular living habits, and pay attention to the combination of work and rest.

(2) In terms of diet, one should find out the dietary rules that are beneficial or harmful to one’s condition and adopt the dietary therapy that best suits one’s condition. Patients with yin deficiency, blood heat, and yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire should abstain from spicy and irritating foods, avoid drinking alcohol, and eat more fresh vegetables that nourish yin and clear heat, so that the secretory function of the sweat glands can be firmly established on the basis of body health.

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(3) When conditions permit,

Adjust the temperature and humidity of the living environment. For example, people with yin deficiency and blood heat should live in a slightly cooler environment.

(4) The patient’s bedding, bed boards, pajamas, etc. should be washed or aired regularly to keep them dry, and the patient should take a bath regularly to reduce the irritation of sweat to the skin.

(5) Severe night sweats and long-term bed rest

Family members should pay special attention to strengthening care to avoid bedsores. Also pay attention to the patient's complexion, consciousness, and sweating amount, and report any special changes to the doctor in time.

As for the reason why the body sweats at night, everyone knows that it is mainly because the body is weak. This may be because you are too busy with work and don’t take good care of your body. After reading the above, if you have such a situation, you must replenish the kidney deficiency in your body in time, so as to avoid sweating at night.