Anywhere from 10 to 40 percent of adults report night sweats in a given year.
Usually, however, this isnt the case.
What are the most common causes of night sweats?
Night sweatslikepoop sweatsare actually relatively common.
Anywhere from10 to 40 percent of adults report them in a given year1.
And it could be messing with yoursleep health.
doctor, entrepreneur, and founder of Parsley Health
This is part of the reason for night sweats in menopause.
So if youre getting night sweats periodically, notice if theyre falling in this part of your cycle.
It could be triggered by low estrogen, since your menstrual cycle and night sweats are connected.
This is more common inpeople with diabetes, who have a hard time regulating blood sugar in general.
Underlying anxiety increases sympathetic tone, or the activation of the fight-or-flight side of yournervous system.
This, in turn, increases the hormones and neurotransmitterscortisol, adrenaline, and norepinephrine in the body.
That leads to the constriction of your peripheral blood vessels (called vasoconstriction).
And ultimately: The bodys temperature increases, and the body triggers sweating to cool your off.
Alcoholdisrupts the bodys ability to thermoregulate2in both directions, causing both sweating and shivering.
doctor, entrepreneur, and founder of Parsley Health
Even a glass or two of wine can be enough tointerrupt sleepand disrupt body temperature in some people.
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reviewed byAngela Holliday-Bell, MD
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