What causes sleep hyperhidrosis ?
Sleep Hyperhidrosis can be due to a variety of underlying disorders, such as: • febrile illness • diabetes insipidus (this is not diabetes mellitus) • Hyperthyroidism • Pheochromocytoma (secretion from usually benign cells in the brain that produces excessive sweating as one of its symtoms) • Hypothalamic lesions in the brain • Epilespy • Cerebral and brain stem strokes • Cerebral palsy • Chronic paroxysmal hemicrania (sudden onset migrane) • Spinal cord infarction (sudden insufficiency in blood supply) • Head injury • Familial dysautomia (a congenital syndrome with specific disturbances of the nervous system) • Can occur in pregnancy and can be produced by antipyretic medications (anti-nausea) • Obstructive sleep apnea Top
