Sweating: Normal or pathological?

Sweating is a normal physiological phenomenon of the body in humans and warm-blooded animals. This helps to regulate the temperature of the body to keep the temperature constant at 37 ⁰ C and helps to discharge toxins in the body. The phenomenon of sweating is only abnormal when it comes out too much, affecting the physiology and physiology of people.

Sweating actually brings a lot of benefits to health and beauty. Your skin is the largest organ on the body, and plays an important role like any other body organ. For example, sweating helps your body: maintain proper temperature and keep you from overheating; excretion of toxins, good support of immune function and help prevent diseases related to toxic overload; kill some viruses and bacteria; Cleans the pores, this will help eliminate blackheads and acne. Sweating is controlled by the automated nervous system, which you can't control yourself. However, certain emotions, such as: anxiety, anger, confusion, or fear, may make you sweat a lot.

Do you have to wipe your hands before shaking someone's hand? . That's one of the many signs of severe sweating.

Signs of sweating pathology

However, do you sweat more than others? Just running on the new machine for 5 minutes, are you wet? You must be long-handed before shaking hands with someone? . It's one of the many signs that you suffer from severe sweating, a sign of a medical condition.'Local' sweating is not a pathology, affecting a part of the body: armpits, groin, head, face, hands or feet; and often symmetrical. Currently, experts have not yet determined the cause, however, it may be due to a 'minor incident' in the nervous system and a family history. Such excessive sweating also affects the quality of life and limits the patient's ability to communicate.

A less common 'secondary' sweating phenomenon is usually caused by other diseases, especially night sweats. According to Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Hoai Nam - Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City Vein Association - in children sweating can be caused by many causes such as sympathetic sympathy, malnutrition, calcium deficiency, unexplained fever . In adults, diseases that cause increased sweating are neurological disorders of plants, strengthening sympathetic system, obesity, thin nutrition, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, cancer (like leukemia and lymphoma), diabetes, menopause, pregnancy, alcoholism, Parkinson's disease, rheumatoid arthritis, stroke, heart failure, especially hyperthyroidism . Abuse of some drugs may also cause secondary sweating, including: some psychotropic drugs, medications for blood pressure or micronutrient supplements.

'For hyperthyroid syndrome, due to the increase of thyroid hormones such as: T3, T4 in the blood. They speed up the body's basic metabolism, increasing the heart rate, increasing the metabolism of cells that increase the body's temperature and the need to discharge toxins as a product of the operation of cell. Therefore, increasing the level of sweating, " explained Dr. Hoai Nam.

When to visit?

You need to see a doctor right away when: sweating a lot at night (getting up in the morning, you see a pillowcase or place where it is still wet); systemic sweating not only of the armpits, groin, palms, feet, or just sweating on one side of the body; sudden sweating; sweating accompanied by other symptoms, such as fatigue, insomnia, thirst, frequent urination, or coughing . Even when sweat affects the quality of life, you should see a doctor, And do not forget to take the medicines or supplements you are taking so that your doctor can check and give you specialized tests.

Doctor Hoai Nam recommends, diagnosing the cause of increased sweating is complicated, requires a thorough examination of a qualified physician even though there are some suggestive symptoms but most are general and not available. true value. In addition, the treatment of increased sweating requires long-term patient persistence and treatment of the disease causing increased sweating such as limiting obesity, limiting malnutrition, treating real neurological disorders. objects, treatment of tuberculosis, diabetes . Modifiable factors to prevent increased sweating by weight loss to avoid obesity, work and live in an environment that is not too hot, avoid diseases Causes increased sweating.