Night sweats
Night sweats: Introduction
Night sweats: Sweating during the night (usually a cold sweat).
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Causes of Night sweats:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Night sweats.
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Night sweats: Symptom Checker
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Causes of Similar Symptoms to Night sweats
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Medical Books Excerpts
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Medical Books Excerpts
- Anhidrosis
- "Handbook of Signs & Symptoms (Third Edition)" (2006)
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- Anhidrosis
- "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)" (2006)
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- Diaphoresis
- "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)" (2006)
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- Skin, clammy
- "Professional Guide to Signs & Symptoms (Fifth Edition)" (2006)
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- Night Sweats
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
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- Anhidrosis
- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
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- Skin, clammy
- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
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- Anhidrosis
- "Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses" (2007)
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- Diaphoresis
- "Signs & Symptoms: A 2-in-1 Reference for Nurses" (2007)
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- Sweating
- "The Diagnostic Approach to Symptoms and Signs in Pediatrics" (2006)
- [ read ]
Copyright notice for book excerpts: Copyright © 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Diagnostic tests for Night sweats:
Various tests are used in the diagnosis of Night sweats. Some of these are listed below :
- Physical examination
- Inspect for scratch marks due to itch that sometimes occurs with lymphoma
- Temperature. Night sweats are usually related to a fever but may also be caused by anxiety states
- Feel all palpable lymph nodes for enlargement
- Examine the heart for a heart murmur which would suggest bacterial endocarditis
- Examine the lungs
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Diagnosis Checklist: Questions your doctor may ask (and why!)
During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques in their assessment of Night sweats.
Your doctor may ask several questions when assessing
your condition. It is important to remember that your consultation is a two-way process and any extra information
you can share with your doctor about your symptoms may help them with their diagnosis.
Some of the questions your doctor may ask are listed below:
- How long have you had the night sweats? - to determine if acute or chronic.
- How severe are the night sweats? - e.g. while moderate night sweats are common in anxiety states, drenching night sweats requiring several changes of night clothes is a more ominous symptom associated with infection or lymphoproliferative disease such as lymphoma.
- If chills are associated with a fever, what is the pattern of the fever and night sweats? - e.g. intermittent fever of malaria; undulant fever where bouts of fever for several days are followed by several days of normal temperature occur with lymphomas.
- Travel history? - overseas travelers or visitors may have special or even exotic infections.
- Past medical history? - e.g. AIDS; Rheumatic fever; immunodeficiency, cancer; acquired heart valvular disease such as mitral regurgitation, mitral stenosis, aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation are at increased risk of infective endocarditis; congenital heart disease such as patent ductus arteriosus, ventricular septal defect and coarctation of the aorta are at increased risk of infective endocarditis.
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Diagnosis Checklist: Associated symptoms your doctor may ask about (and why!)
Sometimes, other symptoms may be present and may help your doctor analyse
your condition.
The symptoms your doctor may ask about (in association with Night sweats) may include:
- Symptoms of anxiety? - e.g. nervousness, shakiness, tremor, restlessness, irritability, insomnia, poor concentration, heart palpitations, racing heart, sweating (including moderate night sweats), dizziness, diarrhea, lump in throat and frequency of urination.
- Symptoms of symptomatic HIV infection? - e.g. tiredness, weight loss, night sweats (often soaking the sheets), diarrhea, susceptibility to opportunistic infections and tumors. May have the presence of multiple infections at one time.
- Symptoms of Hodgkin's disease? - e.g. painless neck lymph node enlargement, fever, night sweats, weight loss, itch, fatigue, loss of appetite, alcohol induced pain at the site of the enlarged lymph nodes.
- Symptoms of subacute endocarditis? - e.g. fever, night sweats, weight loss, weakness, symptoms of cardiac failure such as shortness of breath on exertion, orthopnea (breathlessness lying down flat), paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea (inappropriate severe breathlessness causing waking from sleep), painful muscles and major joints.
- Symptoms of tuberculosis? - e.g. tiredness, malaise, loss of appetite, loss of weight, fever, cough. May have drenching night sweats. Sputum may be mucous-like, pus-like or blood stained.
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Stories from Users for Night sweats
Real-life user stories relating to Night sweats:
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- chronic nausea,vomiting, abdo pain, night sweats for 6 years.
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- Trouble wakeing up
- Unexpected Sweating
- What are syndromes where you can't sweat?
- Sore throat, loss of voice, tiredness, fever, night sweats.. being going on 5 weeks
- cant sweat
- I don't sweat??
- Nausia, sweating, fatigue
- 34 yr old with extreme fatigue, night sweats and much more
- Pain in abdomen, knees, feet, plus night sweats
- shaking and sweating
- severe stroke,now a vegetable,night sweats
- Son that Hypoxic at night
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Medications or substances causing Night sweats:
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins are some of the possible
causes of Night sweats as a symptom.
Always advise your doctor of any medications or treatments you are using,
including prescription, over-the-counter, supplements, herbal or alternative treatments.
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Detailed list of causes of Night sweats
The list below shows some of the causes of Night sweats mentioned in various sources:
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causes of Night sweats
How Common are these Causes of Night sweats?
This information refers to the general prevalence and incidence of these diseases,
not to how likely they are to be the actual cause of Night sweats.
Of the 189
causes of Night sweats that
we have listed, we have the following prevalence/incidence information:
- 6
causes are "very common" diseases
- 2
causes are "common" diseases
- 2
causes are "uncommon" diseases
- 0
causes are "rare" diseases
- 9
causes are "very rare" diseases
- 179
causes have no prevalence information.
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causes of Night sweats
Conditions listing symptoms: Night sweats:
The following list of conditions
have 'Night sweats' or similar
listed as a symptom in our database.
This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause
of any symptom.
A
Abdominal Cancer
... night sweatsActinomycetales infection
... night sweatsAcute adult T-Cell leukemia
... night sweatsAcute myelofibrosis
... night sweatsAcute myelosclerosis
... night sweatsAcute panmyelosis
... night sweatsAdult T-Cell leukemia
... night sweatsAdult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma
... Night sweatsAdult T-Cell lymphoma
... night sweatsAIDS-Related Complex
... night sweatsAnaplastic large cell lymphoma
... night sweatsAnaplastic small cell lymphoma
... night sweatsAndropause
... night sweatsAngioimmunoblastic with dysproteinemia lymphadenopathy
... night sweatsArenavirus
... Night sweatsB
B-cell lymphomas
... night sweatsBack tumour
... night sweatsBacterial endocarditis
... night sweatsBlood cancer
... sweating at nightBrucellosis
... night sweatsC
Chloroleukemia
... night sweatsChloroma
... night sweatsChloromyeloma
... night sweatsChronic adult T-Cell leukemia
... night sweatsChronic Idiopathic Myelofibrosis
... night sweatsChronic myelogenous leukemia
... night sweatsChronic Myeloproliferative Disease, Unclassified
... night sweatsChronic Myeloproliferative Disorders
... night sweatsD
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
... night sweatsDisseminated infection with mycobacterium avium complex
... night sweatsE
Endocarditis
... night sweatsEndodermal sinus tumor
... night sweatsExogenous lipoid pneumonia
... night sweatsExtragonadal Germ Cell Tumor
... night sweatsExtramedullary Myeloid Tumor
... night sweatsF
Fitz-Hugh syndrome
... night sweatsFollicular lymphoma
... night sweatsG
Gastric lymphoma
... night sweatsH
Hip cancer
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF01_AE
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF02_AG
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF04_ cpx
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF05_ D/F
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF06_cpx
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF07_BC
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF08_BC
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF11_cpx
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF12_BF
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF13_cpx
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF14_BG
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF15_01B
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF16_ A2D
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF17_BF
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF18_cpx
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF19_cpx
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF20_BG
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF21_A2D
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF22_01A1
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF23_BG
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF24_BG
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF25_cpx
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF26_AU
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF27_cpx
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF28_BF
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF29_BF
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF30_0206
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF31_BC
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF32_06A1
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF33_01B
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF34_01B
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF35_AD
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF36_cpx
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF37_cpx
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF38_BF
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF39_BF
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF40_BF
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF41_CD
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF42_BF
... night sweatsHIV-1, CRF43_02G
... night sweatsHIV-1A
... night sweatsHIV-1A1
... night sweatsHIV-1A2
... night sweatsHIV-1A3
... night sweatsHIV-1B
... night sweatsHIV-1C
... night sweatsHIV-1D
... night sweatsHIV-1E
... night sweatsHIV-1F
... night sweatsHIV-1F1
... night sweatsHIV-1F2
... night sweatsHIV-1G
... night sweatsHIV-1H
... night sweatsHIV-1J
... night sweatsHIV-1K
... night sweatsHIV-1M
... night sweatsHIV-1N
... night sweatsHIV-1O
... night sweatsHIV-2
... night sweatsHIV-2A
... night sweatsHIV-2B
... night sweatsHIV/AIDS
... night sweatsHodgkin disease, X-linked pseudoautosomal
... night sweatsHodgkin lymphoma, childhood
... night sweatsHodgkin lymphoma, during pregnancy
... night sweatsHodgkin's Disease
... Night sweatsHodgkin's disease, adult
... night sweatsHodgkin's disease, childhood
... night sweatsHot flashes
... night sweatsHypergonadotropic ovarian failure
... night sweatsHypergonadotropic ovarian failure, familial or sporadic
... night sweatsI
Idiopathic eosinophilic chronic pneumopathy
... night sweatsIdiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome
... night sweatsInfective endocarditis
... night sweatsK
Kidney Cancer
... night sweatsL
Large granular lymphocyte leukemia
... night sweatsLeukemia
... night sweatsLeukemia, Myeloid, Chronic
... night sweatsLymph node neoplasm
... night sweatsLymphatic neoplasm
... night sweatsLymphoblastic lymphoma
... night sweatsLymphoma
... Night sweatsLymphoma, AIDS-related
... night sweatsM
Mantle cell lymphoma
... night sweatsMediastinal endodermal sinus tumors
... night sweatsMycobacterial infections
... Night sweatsMycobacterium avium Complex
... night sweatsMycobacterium avium complex infection
... night sweatsMyeloid Sarcoma
... night sweatsN
Nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma
... night sweatsNon-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
... Night sweatsNon-Hodgkin's lymphoma, during pregnancy
... night sweatsNosocomial infections
... Night sweatsO
Obstructive Jaundice
... night sweatsOpportunistic infections
... Night sweatsOrbit Tumour
... night sweatsP
Palate cancer
... Night sweatsPediatric AIDS
... night sweatsPeripheral T-cell lymphoma
... night sweatsPhenol sulfotransferase deficiency
... night sweatsPrimary granulocytic sarcoma
... night sweatsPrimary malignant lymphoma
... night sweatsR
Renal Cell Carcinoma 2
... night sweatsRenal Cell Carcinoma 3
... night sweatsRenal Cell Carcinoma 4
... night sweatsRib Tumor
... night sweatsRichter syndrome
... night sweatsS
Sarcoidosis
... night sweatsSarcoidosis, pulmonary
... night sweatsSecondary Bone Cancer
... night sweatsSmoldering adult T-Cell leukemia
... night sweatsSpleen Cancer
... night sweatsSpleen neoplasm
... night sweatsSquamous Cell Skin Cancer
... night sweatsT
Tuberculosis
... night sweatsTuberculosis, pulmonary
... night sweatsW
Wegener's granulomatosis
... night sweats
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Causes of Night sweats Based on Risk Factors
This information shows analysis of the list of causes of Night sweats based
on whether certain risk factors apply to the patient:
Travel - has the patient travelled recently?
Diabetes - history of diabetes or family history of diabetes?
Doctors and specialists: Who should I consult about Night sweats?
Depending on the seriousness of the onset of Night sweats, you may want to consult one of the following medical professionals.
Important:In extreme cases, always seek advice from emergency services :
Classifications of Night sweats:
Medical Conditions associated with Night sweats:
Cold sweat (169 causes), Sweat symptoms (1203 causes), Sweating (704 causes)
Symptoms related to Night sweats:
Cold sweat (169 causes), Fever (1552 causes), Chills (684 causes), Sweat symptoms (1203 causes), High room temperature, Excessive covering during sleep, Indolent chronic infections, Subacute endocarditis, Osteomyelitis (13 causes), Abscesses (17 causes), HIV, Histoplasmosis, Nocturnal hypoglycemia, Hyperthyroidism (9 causes), Diabetes insipidus (17 causes)
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