Contents:
- Medical Video: Hot Flashes in Men-Mayo Clinic
- Frequent night sweats, signs of menopause or heart attacks?
- Sweating at night due to menopause
- Sweating at night can also be a sign of a heart attack in women
Medical Video: Hot Flashes in Men-Mayo Clinic
If you often sweat at night, you should know the cause. The reason is, this can only happen naturally, but it can also be signs of a heart attack in women. Women who are over 40 years old will experience menopause. This will also cause a woman to sweat more at night. Although it looks the same, these symptoms will appear with different characteristics, depending on the cause. So, how to distinguish?
Frequent night sweats, signs of menopause or heart attacks?
Sweating is a natural thing that happens to women, even this is useful for keeping your body at a normal temperature. However, it is different if the sweat at night is produced too much. Experts state that 3 percent of cases of frequent night sweats are a sign of a serious illness, one of which is heart disease. However, this actually happens, especially women who enter menopause. Then how do you tell the difference?
Sweating at night due to menopause
Menopause is a normal process that occurs in every middle-aged woman. At this time, the function of the female reproductive organs will decrease and cause various changes and symptoms. One of them is sweating at night. When going into menopause, changes in hormone levels also occur, which then causes the body to feel hot and hot.
When the body feels hot or hot, the body will sweat to maintain a normal temperature. This condition occurs when a woman who is about to enter menopause sweats at night.
If the body's sweat at night is caused by menopause, you will experience the following symptoms.
- Weight gain
- Mood and emotions change quickly
- Feeling tired
- Dry vagina
- Frequent urination
- Insomnia
- Depression
In addition, entering menopause, you will also experience irregular menstrual cycles. If all of these occur together with the body sweating every night, then this could be a sign of menopause.
Sweating at night can also be a sign of a heart attack in women
Maybe not many know that sweating at night can also be a sign of a heart attack. If a woman sweats at night but does not experience the menopausal symptoms mentioned earlier, then this may be a sign of heart failure.
So, when heart failure occurs, the heart will work harder than usual. When the heart works harder, more energy is produced. This energy is obtained from a metabolic process that indeed causes an increase in body temperature. This then becomes one of the triggers for excessive sweating.
These symptoms are almost similar to menopausal symptoms. However, if it is due to a malfunctioning heart, the sweat that you produce at night will be quite large until your clothes and sheets are wet. In addition, if this is a sign of a heart attack, it will be accompanied by symptoms such as:
- Feel pain in the arms, neck, back and abdomen
- Chest feels sore and depressed
- Difficult to breathe or shortness of breath
- Nausea and vomiting
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Whatever symptoms you feel, you should immediately consult a doctor to determine whether the symptoms that you feel are dangerous or not. The sooner you check and detect, the greater the chance of successful treatment given by the doctor.
