衛教資訊
Night Sweats 夜間盜汗
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Night Sweats 夜間盜汗
2023/12/12
- Night sweats refers to excessive sweating at night in a not overheated room that results in drenched sleepwear and sheets, thus reducing the quality of sleep.
- Complaints about night sweats are not uncommon at the clinic. For example, patients with tuberculosis and lymphoma may often have typical night sweats.
Causes
- Cancer: Many cancers, including lymphoma and leukemia, may be accompanied by night sweats.
- Infectious diseases: such as tuberculosis, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), infectious mononucleosis, endocarditis, etc.
- Endocrine system diseases: such as menopause syndrome, hyperthyroidism, nocturnal hypoglycemia, pheochromocytoma, carcinoid tumors, etc.
- Cardiovascular diseases: such as angina pectoris, Takayasu arteritis, temporal arteritis.
- Drugs: Night sweats may occur when taking certain drugs, such as antipyretics, analgesics, some antihypertensives, some anti-depressants, alcohol or heroin poisoning drugs.
- Others: such as sleep apnea syndrome, gastroesophageal reflux disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, anxiety disorders, etc.
Diagnostic examination
- History and physical examination.
- Chest X-ray examination (excluding tuberculosis).
- Local lymph node biopsy.
- Blood or immunological examination (excluding infections and non-infectious inflammation).
- Female hormone test (excluding menopausal syndrome).
- Thyroxine and thyroid stimulating hormone test.
- Blood glucose monitoring.
- Sleep examination.
- Medical history inquiry.
- Exclude other diseases, such as gastroesophageal reflux.
- Viera, A. J., Bond, M. M., & Yates, S. W. (2003). Diagnosing night sweats. American family physician, 67(5), 1019–1024.
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