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The change of winter and spring seasons is a high incidence of night sweats among young and middle-aged people, which is mostly caused by yin deficiency of patients. In layman's terms, after a long winter, the "essence" stored in the human body is insufficient, and night sweats, such as hot flashes, blushing cheeks, night sweats, insomnia, fatigue, etc., will occur when the body declines. However, young and middle-aged people are under great pressure from work and family, and their physical strength and energy are obviously overdrawn, which is very likely to lead to autonomic nervous disorder. If they don't pay attention to supplementing "Qi" in their daily life, they will be favored by night sweats.

Experts remind that for people with weak physique, after entering the spring, they should take aphrodisiacs at the right time under the guidance of doctors and eat more foods that nourish yin and tonify, such as jujube, black beans, walnuts, black sesame seeds, bloody glutinous rice and longan. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less spicy food; Keep a good mood and live a regular life. When night sweats occur, you should pay attention to the causes of sweating, go to the hospital when necessary, and don't blindly take drugs and supplements at will to avoid adverse consequences. It's not necessarily a disease.

Look at your symptoms, like so-called night sweats, but you can't be sure. The following is some knowledge about night sweats, hoping to give you some help.

Night sweats is a syndrome name of traditional Chinese medicine, which is characterized by abnormal sweating after falling asleep and stopping sweating after waking up. "Stealing" means stealing. Ancient doctors described this disease as thieves sneaking around every night. Whenever people fall asleep, or just close their eyes and fall asleep, sweat leaks out like a thief.

According to the clinical manifestations of night sweats, it can be divided into three types: mild, moderate and severe.

Most patients with mild night sweats are prone to sweat when they are in deep sleep, or at 5 am or 1 ~ 2 hours before waking up, and sweat less. Only when I woke up, I felt a little sweaty all over my body or some part of my body, and I didn't sweat again after I woke up. It is generally not accompanied by uncomfortable feelings.

Most patients with moderate night sweats will sweat out soon after falling asleep, and even make their pajamas wet. They stopped sweating when they woke up. After wiping off the sweat, you will not sweat when you fall asleep. In this type of night sweats, patients often feel fever and sweating, and sometimes feel dry mouth and throat after waking up.

Patients with severe night sweats are prone to sweating. Shortly after falling asleep or just when you close your eyes and are about to fall asleep, a lot of sweat will gush out at night, and you can wake up after sweating, and the sweat can converge instantly after waking up. You can still sweat when you are asleep. Sweating is large, and sweat often has a slight salty taste, or it is mixed with sweat and odor at the same time. Sweat can even wet the bedding, and you can't sleep well unless you change your pajamas several times a night. Some severe patients can make the bedding wet, the bedding thin or when using a mat, sweat can print sweat marks on the bed board. This kind of patients are often accompanied by obvious baking feeling, and their emotions are also irritable. They are thirsty after sweating and like cold water. Usually it can be accompanied by low fever or hot flashes, five-upset fever, red cheekbones, dizziness, emaciation, fatigue, dark urine, less urine and dry stool.

Mild and moderate night sweats will not cause much harm to the body, but patients with severe night sweats will often aggravate their illness for a long time and develop into "symptoms", which seriously threaten their health and life safety.

How should night sweats patients maintain themselves?

Chinese medicine believes that "sweat is the heart fluid". If night sweats persist for a long time, the damage of heart yin is very serious and should be treated actively. At the same time of treatment, we should pay special attention to self-care There are mainly the following points:

(1) At the same time of drug treatment, we should strengthen necessary physical exercise, form regular living habits and pay attention to the combination of work and rest.

(2) In terms of diet, it is necessary to explore the laws of dietary taboos that are beneficial or harmful to one's own symptoms and syndromes, and carry out the most suitable diet treatment and conditioning. In the case of patients with yin deficiency, blood heat and yin deficiency, we should abstain from spicy food, do not drink alcohol, and eat more fresh vegetables that nourish yin and clear heat, so that the secretory function of sweat glands can be firmly restored on the basis of good health.

(3) If conditions permit, properly adjust the temperature and humidity of the living environment. For example, people with yin deficiency and blood heat have a slightly cooler living environment.

(4) Bedding, bedding, pajamas, etc. Ying Qin washes off frequently or stays dry in the sun, and takes a bath in Ying Qin to reduce the irritation of sweat on the skin.

Night sweats are a symptom of traditional Chinese medicine, which is characterized by "abnormal sweating after falling asleep and stopping sweating after waking up". The pathogenesis of "night sweats" in young and middle-aged people is different from that caused by low blood calcium in children. The change of winter and spring seasons is a high incidence of night sweats among young and middle-aged people, which is mostly caused by yin deficiency of patients. In layman's terms, after a long winter, the "essence" stored in the human body is insufficient, and night sweats, such as hot flashes, blushing cheeks, night sweats, insomnia, fatigue, etc., will occur when the body declines. However, young and middle-aged people are under great pressure from work and family, and their physical strength and energy are obviously overdrawn, which is very likely to lead to autonomic nervous disorder. If they don't pay attention to supplementing "Qi" in their daily life, they will be favored by night sweats.

For people with weak physique, after entering the spring, they should take aphrodisiacs at the right time under the guidance of doctors and eat more foods that nourish yin and strengthen the body, such as jujube, black beans, walnuts, black sesame seeds, blood glutinous rice and longan. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less spicy food; Keep a good mood and live a regular life. When night sweats occur, you should pay attention to the causes of sweating, go to the hospital when necessary, and don't blindly take drugs and supplements at will to avoid adverse consequences.

Some patients have night sweats as soon as they fall asleep, some sleep until midnight, and some just close their eyes for a while. The amount of sweat varies greatly. According to the clinical manifestations of night sweats, it can be divided into three types: mild, moderate and severe.

Most patients with mild night sweats are prone to sweat when they are in deep sleep, or at 5 am or 1 ~ 2 hours before waking up, and sweat less. Only when I woke up, I felt a little sweaty all over my body or some part of my body, and I didn't sweat again after I woke up. It is generally not accompanied by uncomfortable feelings.

Most patients with moderate night sweats will sweat out soon after falling asleep, and even make their pajamas wet. They stopped sweating when they woke up. After wiping off the sweat, you will not sweat when you fall asleep. In this type of night sweats, patients often feel fever and sweating, and sometimes feel dry mouth and throat after waking up.

Patients with severe night sweats are prone to sweating. Shortly after falling asleep or just when you close your eyes and are about to fall asleep, a lot of sweat will gush out at night, and you can wake up after sweating, and the sweat can converge instantly after waking up. You can still sweat when you are asleep. Sweating is large, and sweat often has a slight salty taste, or it is mixed with sweat and odor at the same time. Sweat can even wet the bedding, and you can't sleep well unless you change your pajamas several times a night. Some severe patients can make the bedding wet, the bedding thin or when using a mat, sweat can print sweat marks on the bed board. This kind of patients are often accompanied by obvious baking feeling, and their emotions are also irritable. They are thirsty after sweating and like cold water. Usually it can be accompanied by low fever or hot flashes, five-upset fever, red cheekbones, dizziness, emaciation, fatigue, dark urine, less urine and dry stool.

Mild and moderate night sweats will not cause much harm to the body, but patients with severe night sweats will often aggravate their illness for a long time and develop into "symptoms", which seriously threaten their health and life safety.

How to distinguish physiological night sweats from pathological night sweats?

Night sweats can be divided into physiological night sweats and pathological night sweats, especially the incidence of physiological night sweats in children is very high, which sometimes makes parents very nervous, so it is necessary to master how to distinguish physiological night sweats from pathological night sweats.

(1) Physiological night sweats: In childhood, the skin is tender, rich in water, rich in capillaries, vigorous in metabolism, and the autonomic nerve regulation function is not perfect, so it is easy to sweat during activities. If the child has too much activity before going to bed, the functional metabolism of various organs in the body is active, which can increase the body's heat production. During sleep, skin blood vessels dilate, sweat glands secrete more and sweat more, which is beneficial to heat dissipation. Secondly, eating before going to bed can enhance gastrointestinal peristalsis and increase the secretion of gastric juice and sweat glands, which can cause children to sweat more after falling asleep, especially within 2 hours before going to sleep. In addition, if the indoor temperature is too high, or the quilt cover is too thick, or when using an electric blanket, it will cause sweating during sleep.

(2) Pathological night sweats: After some children fall asleep, they often sweat in the middle of the night, which is often caused by low blood calcium. Low calcium can easily increase the excitability of sympathetic nerves, just like turning on the "faucet" of sweat glands, which is especially common in children with rickets. However, night sweats are not unique manifestations of rickets. According to the comprehensive analysis of the child's feeding and outdoor activities, blood calcium, blood phosphorus and wrist X-rays should be checked to determine whether the child has active rickets.

Night sweats in children with pulmonary tuberculosis are characterized by sweating all night. In addition, there are symptoms such as flushing, low fever and emaciation, loss of appetite and emotional changes. ESR, anti-tuberculosis antibody, chest X-ray, etc. , can often find anomalies. It should be noted that a detailed examination of the neck for lymphadenopathy is very valuable for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in children.

To sum up, all the causes and diseases that affect the body's thermoregulatory center and increase the excitability of sympathetic nerves will cause night sweats in children. As parents, children should be carefully observed and judged after comprehensive analysis, and drugs should not be used blindly to avoid adverse consequences.

How should night sweats patients maintain themselves?

Chinese medicine believes that "sweat is the heart fluid". If night sweats persist for a long time, the damage of heart yin is very serious and should be treated actively. At the same time of treatment, we should pay special attention to self-care There are mainly the following points:

(1) At the same time of drug treatment, we should strengthen necessary physical exercise, form regular living habits and pay attention to the combination of work and rest.

(2) In terms of diet, it is necessary to explore the laws of dietary taboos that are beneficial or harmful to one's own symptoms and syndromes, and carry out the most suitable diet treatment and conditioning. In the case of patients with yin deficiency, blood heat and yin deficiency, we should abstain from spicy food, do not drink alcohol, and eat more fresh vegetables that nourish yin and clear heat, so that the secretory function of sweat glands can be firmly restored on the basis of good health.

(3) If conditions permit, properly adjust the temperature and humidity of the living environment. For example, people with yin deficiency and blood heat have a slightly cooler living environment.

(4) The patient's bedding, bedding, pajamas, etc. Ying Qin washes off frequently or stays dry in the sun, and takes a bath in Ying Qin to reduce the skin irritation caused by sweat.

(5) Family members of patients with severe night sweats and long-term bed rest should pay special attention to strengthening nursing to avoid bedsores. Pay attention to the patient's complexion, consciousness and sweating, and report to the doctor in time if there are any special changes.