Sweating all over

Introduction People's sweat glands are the most developed, and people's sweating can be divided into three types: warm sweating, mental sweating, and taste sweating. Sweating is a normal physiological phenomenon in the human body. Sweat can take away excess heat from the body and some metabolites such as uric acid and fatty acids. But there are also diseases that cause sweating. Excessive sweating can reduce the flow of blood circulation in the human body, and the circulation slows down, which causes the body's heat dissipation to decrease, resulting in an increase in body temperature. A lot of sweating can also cause the body's salt to be lost, and the cells are devastated by the lack of sodium.

Cause

1. Warm sweating: caused by rising outside temperature, generally except for the palms and toes, other skins can sweat.

2, mental sweating: caused by mental excitement or painful stimulation, sweating is mainly found in the palm, toe and armpits. When a person is nervous, his palms will sweat, which is a spiritual sweat.

3, taste sweating: belongs to a physiological phenomenon, such as eating some irritating food (chili, garlic, ginger, cocoa, coffee) caused by excessive sweating.

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Pediatric autonomic development is not perfect. When you fall asleep, the sympathetic nerves that control the sweat glands will be excited by the loss of brain control, and there will be many sweating phenomena. This is completely normal. As long as the child has no other symptoms, such as irritability, crying, easy to wake up, etc., do not care about him. This kind of sweating is often seen within half an hour after falling asleep, and is mainly based on forehead sweating. It usually stops slowly within 2 hours after bedtime. It is more common in children aged 3 to 7 years old and gradually disappears with age. Some people call it physiological sweating.

But if the child is physically weak, sweating at night when he falls asleep, like water pouring, even sweating all night, through the wet clothes, accompanied by irritability, crying, weight loss and other symptoms, it is pathological sweating. Common causes are vitamin D deficiency rickets. In addition to sweating at night, it is accompanied by irritability, restless sleep, easy to wake up, square skull, alopecia areata, chicken chest and other symptoms.

Differential diagnosis

Pathological hyperhidrosis refers to hyperhidrosis caused by certain diseases, and the cause is more complicated. Therefore, the symptoms of sweating around the body should be identified as follows.

1, childhood obesity: obese baby will be sweating even if he moves or walks.

2, low blood sugar: the performance is sad and uneasy, pale, cold sweat, even sweating, cold limbs.

3, drug-induced hyperhidrosis: eating excessive antipyretics, causing a lot of sweating, or even collapse.

4, acute and chronic infectious diseases: typhoid, sepsis, rheumatoid disease, connective tissue disease, lupus erythematosus or blood disease, etc. also often have a lot of sweating performance, usually ask the doctor to identify.

5, children with heart and lung disease: children with congenital heart disease, pneumonia and heart failure, children often sweat a lot.

6, rickets in children: excessive sweating is an important feature of the active period of rickets, usually accompanied by night crying, pillow baldness, ping-pong head, square skull, anterior sacral enlargement and closure delay.

7, pediatric tuberculosis: babies with tuberculosis not only sweat in the first half of the night, but also sweaty before dawn in the middle of the night, known as "night sweats." At the same time, it is accompanied by poor appetite, low fever or high fever in the afternoon, flushing of the face, weight loss, etc., and some symptoms such as cough, hepatosplenomegaly, and swollen lymph nodes.

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