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Causes of Night sweats
This section discusses 173 medical conditions causing Night sweats. A simple discussion of these causes with additional information is below.
Causes of Night sweats:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Night sweats.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
- Practical reasons for sweating during the night:
- Over-heating during sleep
- Spicy foods before bedtime
- Hot drinks before bedtime
- Hot weather
- Hot bedroom
- Too many blankets
- Exercising before bedtime
- Menopause
- Perimenopause
- Emotional problems
- Stress
- Nightmares
- Sleep walking
- Sleep apnea
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Fever - see various causes of fever
- Infections and other serious conditions may include:
- See also causes of cold sweats (night sweats are usually a form of cold sweat at night)
Conditions listing medical symptoms: Night sweats:
The following list of conditions have 'Night sweats' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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More Information About Night sweats
- Night sweats: Introduction
- Diagnostic tests for Night sweats
- Diagnosis Checklist: Questions Doctors Should Ask for Night sweats
- Medical Textbooks Online for Night sweats
- Symptom combinations for Night sweats
- Travel-related causes of Night sweats
- Diabetes-related causes of Night sweats
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List of 173 causes of Night sweats
This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Night sweats in our database from various sources.
- Abdominal Cancer - night sweats
- Abscess
- Actinomycetales infection - night sweats
- Acute adult T-Cell leukemia - night sweats
- Acute myelofibrosis - night sweats
- Acute myelosclerosis - night sweats
- Acute panmyelosis - night sweats
- Adult T-Cell leukemia - night sweats
- Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma - Night sweats
- Adult T-Cell lymphoma - night sweats
- AIDS
- AIDS-Related Complex - night sweats
- Anaplastic large cell lymphoma - night sweats
- Anaplastic small cell lymphoma - night sweats
- Andropause - night sweats
- Angioimmunoblastic with dysproteinemia lymphadenopathy - night sweats
- Arenavirus - Night sweats
- B-cell lymphomas - night sweats
- Back tumour - night sweats
- Bacterial endocarditis - night sweats
- Blood cancer - sweating at night
- Bowel disease
- Breast Duct Papilloma - night sweats
- Brucellosis - night sweats
- Chronic adult T-Cell leukemia - night sweats
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia - night sweats
- Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorders - night sweats
- Common cold
- Cough - Night sweats
- Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma - night sweats
- Disseminated infection with mycobacterium avium complex - night sweats
- Emotional problems
- Endocarditis - night sweats
- Endodermal sinus tumor - night sweats
- Exercising before bedtime
- Exogenous lipoid pneumonia - night sweats
- Extragonadal Germ Cell Tumor - night sweats
- Fever - see various causes of fever
- Fitz-Hugh syndrome - night sweats
- Flu
- Follicular lymphoma - night sweats
- Gastric lymphoma - night sweats
- Heart disease
- Hepatitis
- Hip cancer - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF01_AE - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF02_AG - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF04_ cpx - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF05_ D/F - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF06_cpx - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF07_BC - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF08_BC - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF11_cpx - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF12_BF - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF13_cpx - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF14_BG - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF15_01B - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF16_ A2D - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF17_BF - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF18_cpx - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF19_cpx - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF20_BG - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF21_A2D - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF22_01A1 - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF23_BG - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF24_BG - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF25_cpx - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF26_AU - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF27_cpx - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF28_BF - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF29_BF - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF30_0206 - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF31_BC - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF32_06A1 - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF33_01B - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF34_01B - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF35_AD - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF36_cpx - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF37_cpx - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF38_BF - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF39_BF - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF40_BF - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF41_CD - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF42_BF - night sweats
- HIV-1, CRF43_02G - night sweats
- HIV-1A - night sweats
- HIV-1A1 - night sweats
- HIV-1A2 - night sweats
- HIV-1A3 - night sweats
- HIV-1B - night sweats
- HIV-1C - night sweats
- HIV-1D - night sweats
- HIV-1E - night sweats
- HIV-1F - night sweats
- HIV-1F1 - night sweats
- HIV-1F2 - night sweats
- HIV-1G - night sweats
- HIV-1H - night sweats
- HIV-1J - night sweats
- HIV-1K - night sweats
- HIV-1M - night sweats
- HIV-1N - night sweats
- HIV-1O - night sweats
- HIV-2 - night sweats
- HIV-2A - night sweats
- HIV-2B - night sweats
- HIV/AIDS - night sweats
- Hodgkin disease, X-linked pseudoautosomal - night sweats
- Hodgkin lymphoma, during pregnancy - night sweats
- Hodgkin's disease - Night sweats
- Hot bedroom
- Hot drinks before bedtime
- Hot flashes - night sweats
- Hot weather
- Hypergonadotropic ovarian failure - night sweats
- Hypergonadotropic ovarian failure, familial or sporadic - night sweats
- Idiopathic eosinophilic chronic pneumopathy - night sweats
- Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome - night sweats
- Immune system disorders
- Infective endocarditis - night sweats
- Large granular lymphocyte leukemia - night sweats
- Leukemia - night sweats
- Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic - night sweats
- Lymph node neoplasm - night sweats
- Lymphatic neoplasm - night sweats
- Lymphoblastic lymphoma - night sweats
- Lymphoma - Night sweats
- Lymphoma, AIDS-related - night sweats
- Mantle cell lymphoma - night sweats
- Mediastinal endodermal sinus tumors - night sweats
- Menopause
- Mycobacterial infections - Night sweats
- Mycobacterium avium Complex - night sweats
- Mycobacterium avium complex infection - night sweats
- Nightmares
- Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - Night sweats
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, during pregnancy - night sweats
- Nosocomial infections - Night sweats
- Obstructive Jaundice - night sweats
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Opportunistic infections - Night sweats
- Orbit Tumour - night sweats
- Over-heating during sleep
- Palate cancer - Night sweats
- Pediatric AIDS - night sweats
- Perimenopause
- Peripheral T-cell lymphoma - night sweats
- Phenol sulfotransferase deficiency - night sweats
- Primary granulocytic sarcoma - night sweats
- Primary malignant lymphoma - night sweats
- Pulmonary tuberculosis
- Rib Tumor - night sweats
- Richter syndrome - night sweats
- Sarcoidosis - night sweats
- Sarcoidosis, pulmonary - night sweats
- Secondary Bone Cancer - night sweats
- See also causes of cold sweats (night sweats are usually a form of cold sweat at night)
- Sleep apnea
- Sleep walking
- Smoldering adult T-Cell leukemia - night sweats
- Spicy foods before bedtime
- Spleen Cancer - night sweats
- Spleen neoplasm - night sweats
- Squamous Cell Skin Cancer - night sweats
- Stress
- Stroke
- Subphrenic abscess
- Thyroid disorders
- Too many blankets
- Tuberculosis - night sweats
- Tuberculosis, pulmonary - night sweats
- Virus
- Wegener's granulomatosis - night sweats
Drug side effect causes of Night sweats
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins
may possibly cause Night sweats as a side effect.
- Zalcitabine
- Hivid
- Cyclosporine
- Sandimmune
- Consupren
Medical Textbooks about Night sweats
Free online access to excerptswithout registration is available to view excerpts from medical textbooks about the causes and diagnosis of Night sweats. Refer to our list of medical textbooks discussions about Night sweats (Free online access to book excerpts, no registration).
- "The 10-Minute Diagnosis Manual: Symptoms and Signs in the Time-Limited Encounter" (2000)
- [ read ]
- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
- [ read ]
- "Alarming Signs and Symptoms: Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice Series" (2007)
- [ read ]
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