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Reasons for Night Sweats

What are the reasons for Night Sweats?

Night sweats is the evening cousin of hot flashes, but typically more intense. Night sweats, which is also known as "nocturnal hyperhydrosis", isn't actually a sleep disorder, but it is a common perspiration disorder that occurs during sleep. Although sweating is a natural body function, a night sweat can become bad enough to wake you up night after night, wet and shivering. Thus menopause in woman is the most common reason of it, it is believed that fluctuating hormone levels are one of the main night sweats triggers. The declining level of estrogen hormones, associated with menopause, are responsible for a malfunction of this heat regulatory area, which detects an increased body temperature and releases chemicals that cause the skin blood vessels to dilate so the heat can be released. This process is acompanied by heavy sweating and cold shivering.

What to do about Night Sweats?

The best way to beat night sweats is naturally. Night Sweats have a lot to do with the decreased levels of estrogen in a woman's body, but other factors can also cause the body temperature control to go out of whack. Avoiding things that trigger night sweats can significantly lower the intensity as well as the quantity of night sweats women experience during menopause.

  • hot showers
  • caffeine
  • hot weather
  • spicy food
  • alcohol
  • smoking
  • hot rooms
  • diet pills
  • hot drinks
  • anger
  • stress
  • hot food
Avoiding these triggers and trying out our "Reasons for Night Sweats Tips" below can help you to decrease night sweats frequency and intensity.
  • take a cold shower before bed
  • avoid night sweats triggers
  • keep cold water at hand
  • wear cotton pyjamas or a nightgown
  • use cotton sheets only, not synthetics
  • lower the bed room temperature
Since night sweats have been related to a declining level of estrogen, the pharmaceutical companies would make woman believe that for the treatment of night sweats, drugs are the only solution. That isn't the case. Although Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) has been used to alleviate symptoms of menopause and prevent them with good success, more and more women consider less riskier approaches (natural treatments), since ovarian and breast cancer as well as heart disease, blood clots and strokes risks are associated with HRT.

Nowadays most women think that dealing with Night Sweats is best accomplished via a combination of diet, healthy lifestyle and natural treatment. In the other hand, we should always keep in mind that the most common reason of Night Sweats is hormonal fluctuations.

Which are the best ways to cope with Night Sweats?
Three levels of approaches can be considered for treating reasons for Night Sweats:
(1)lifestyle changes, (2)alternative approaches and (3)drugs and surgery. The safest way is to start with the least risky approach and go on to the next level only if it is necessary. Click on treatments for Night Sweats and don't miss these three excellent approaches.


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