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Night sweats can have many causes, from stress to menopause to serious illnesses such as AIDS or tuberculosis. Night sweats are not natural. Seek out the cause.
Night Sweats
What are night sweats? What causes them? What can you do? from your About.com. Guide
Not Necessarily Menopause
Finally you managed to fall into a restful sleep - only to wake up an hour later to find your night clothes and your bedding soaked. You are the victim of nocturnal sweating.
Night Sweats - the Basics
Night sweats isn't really a sleep disorder, but it's one of my most popular topics. I receive questions often about it. Let's take a look at the basics.
Not Necessarily Menopause
Finally you managed to fall into a restful sleep - only to wake up an hour later to find your night clothes and your bedding soaked. You are the victim of nocturnal sweating.
Night Sweats
You wake up in the middle of the night, cold, clammy and uncomfortable. Often you have to get up and change everything - night clothes, sheets. pillow case. Worst of all., now you're wide awake and can't get back to sleep.
Night Sweats and Menopause
From About Women's Health, a comprehensive list of links to sites about menopause and nocturnal swesting.
No More Hot Flashes
Research suggests that soy may have some benefit for reducing hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause.
What Women Should Know About Sleep
One of the harbingers of menopause is hot flashes -- hot, flushed feelings caused by a widening of blood vessels near the skin's surface and brought on by fluctuating levels of estrogen.
Menopause and Night Sweats
Instead of putting up with night sweats and all the other uncomfortable symptoms of menopause, women are turning to safe, effective, alternative answers.
Menopause Symptoms
A study of more than 16,000 women ages 40-55 has found that common symptoms of menopause differ by ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and lifestyle factors.
Relief for People with Hyperhidrosis
A new outpatient procedure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Hyperhidrosis Center now offers relief for people with hyperhidrosis -- excessive sweating. Unfortunately, the treatment is more for sweating of the hands and feet. Performed endoscopically, with four tiny incisions, complete recovery is measured in several days.
Night Sweats
I am an 87-year-old woman and for quite some time I have been having "night sweats." Within an hour after retiring, I have to change the top of my night shirt and then every two hours all night
Night Sweats and Paxil
Paxil and other serotonin reuptake inhibitors can cause night sweats.
Menopause and Soy
Hot flushes, night sweats, mood changes, loss of libido and vaginal dryness are some of the most common symptoms of menopause
Night Sweats and Tamoxifen
Occasional women on tamoxifen will experience symptoms similar to menopause.
Hormone-Replacement Therapy
HRT is often prescribed to relieve uncomfortable menopausal symptoms such as "hot flashes," night sweats, and painful intercourse (due to vaginal dryness).
Menopause Community
An excellent site for women going through menopause, Loaded with information. Run a search on night sweats. 72 articles!
35 Possible Symptoms of Menopause
These are cartoons related to menopause and to it's symptoms. Relax and enjoy.
Sleep Hyperhydrosis
Sleep hyperhidrosis is profuse sweating that occurs during sleep. The patient may or may not have excessive sweating during waking hours
Treating Night Sweats With Herbs
Though the causes of night sweats are many, generally they are symptomatic of underlying disease, particularly infectious and consumptive diseases.

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