Cold sweat

Introduction Cold sweat means that you feel chilly because of sweat, nervousness, or illness. Before the sweat is not hot, the mouth is not thirsty, often accompanied by lack of energy, pale, loose stools, long urine, slow pulse, pale tongue and other cold symptoms. Due to the lack of yang deficiency and lack of qi, it can also be caused by fright.

Cause

When people are nervous, emotional, or suddenly scared, they can sweat on the palms, soles, armpits, and face. This is called mental sweating, which is what we usually say. Sometimes when people eat hot and sour food such as onions, garlic, pepper, bayberry, and apricot, there are often sweat and even sweating on the face and neck. This is called sweating. These two types of sweating have no special odor. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it is yin and yang deficiency, and the body is too heavy.

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The cold sweat is different from the sweat that is usually caused by heat or exercise. The latter is the thigh, the back, the underarm, the chest, the sweat is more, and it is not easy to evaporate and smell. The smell of sweat that can be smelled by the nose is mostly emitted by the sweat glands under the armpits.

In this case, it is recommended to check the blood routine and blood pressure, and do B-ultrasound and blood biochemical examination to see if there are any shortages.

Differential diagnosis

1. The mechanism of cold sweat caused by cold sweat in young and middle-aged children and low blood calcium in children is different. The winter and spring seasons are the high incidence of cold sweats among young and middle-aged people. The reason is mostly caused by the patient's yin deficiency. In a popular way, after a long winter, the essence stored in the human body is insufficient. When it falls, there will be symptoms of cold sweating, such as hot flashes, redness, night sweats, insomnia, fatigue and so on. The young and middle-aged people face great pressure from work and family, and their physical strength and energy overdraft are obvious. It is very likely to cause human autonomic dysfunction. If you do not pay attention to supplementing Qi in daily life, you will inevitably suffer from cold sweat.

2, in addition, there is another reason is suffering from hyperhidrosis, there are two types of systemic and limited hyperhidrosis. The skin of a systemic hyperhidrosis is often moist and has paroxysmal sweating. Local hyperhidrosis is common in the palms, ankles, underarms, followed by the tip of the nose, forehead, genitals, etc., mostly in adolescents, patients often accompanied by peripheral blood circulation dysfunction, such as wet skin, bruising or pale, easy to produce frostbite Wait. The sweat in the foot is weak due to the evaporation of sweat, causing the skin of the sole to be whitened, often accompanied by foot odor. When the armpits and the genitals are sweaty, the skin is thin and tender, often wet and rubbed, and it is prone to rubbing erythema, accompanied by folliculitis and phlegm.

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