Sweating: Normal or pathological?

Sweating is a normal physiological phenomenon of the body in humans and hot blood animals. This helps keep the body's temperature constant at 370C and helps release toxins in the body. The phenomenon of sweating is only abnormal when it exerts too much influence on human physiology and psychology.
Sweating really brings a lot of health and beauty benefits. Your skin is the largest organ on the body and plays an important role just like any other organ of the body. For example, sweating helps your body: maintain proper temperature and keep you from overheating; Toxins, good support immune function and help prevent diseases related to toxic overload; kill some viruses and bacteria; Cleanse the pores, this will help remove blackheads and acne. Sweating is controlled by the autonomic nervous system, which you can not control yourself. However, certain emotions, such as anxiety, anger, confusion, or fear, can cause you to sweat a lot.

Do you have to clean your hands before shaking hands? It's one of many signs of severe sweating

Signs of pathological sweating

However, you sweat out more than others? Just jogging on the new 5 minutes, you were wet? Do you have to hold hands long before shaking hands? ... It is one of many signs of severe sweating, a sign of a medical condition. "Local" sweating is not a disease, affecting part of the body: armpit, groin, head, face, arms or legs; and often have symmetrical manifestations. Currently, experts have not identified the cause, however, may be due to a "minor incidents" in the nervous system and a family history. Excessive sweating also affects the quality of life and limits the patient to communicate.

A less common "secondary" type of sweating is usually caused by other illnesses, especially night sweats. According to the child's doctor, sweating may be caused by many factors such as hyperthyroidism, malnutrition, calcium deficiency, unexplained fever ... In adults, diseases that cause sweating is a neurological disorder, an intensified sympathetic system, obesity, skin thinning, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, cancer (such as leukemia and lymphoma), diabetes, menopause, pregnancy, alcoholism, Parkinson's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke, heart failure, especially hyperthyroidism ... Abuse of certain medications can also cause secondary sweating, including psychotropic drugs, blood pressure medications or micronutrients.

"For hyperthyroidism, due to the proliferation of thyroid hormones such as T3, T4 in the blood. They increase the basic metabolic rate of the body, increase the heart rate, increase the metabolism of the cells, increase the body temperature and the need to release toxins are the product of the process of the cell. Thus increasing the level of sweat excretion, "BS. Hoài Nam explained.

When to visit?

You need to see the doctor immediately: sweating a lot at night (morning to get up, you see the pillow or sleeping position is still wet); Sweating of the body not only armpit, groin, palms, feet, or just sweat on one side of the body; sudden sweating; Sweating with other symptoms, such as fatigue, insomnia, thirst, frequent urination, or cough ... Even when sweating affects the quality of life, you should also see a doctor, And do not forget to take the medications or supplements you are taking for your doctor to check and give you specialist tests.

Doctors diagnosed the cause of hyperpigmentation as requiring careful examination by a qualified physician, although there are some suggested symptoms most are general and nonexistent. have real value. In addition, the treatment of increased sweating requires patients to persevere long-term and treatment of diseases that increase sweating such as obesity limitation, malnutrition reduction, treatment of neuropathy Treatment of tuberculosis, diabetes mellitus ... Factors that can change to prevent increased sweating by weight loss to avoid obesity, work and live in not the too hot environment, avoid diseases causing sweating.