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Hyperhidrosis causes
Introduction
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Overview
Overview
The cause of primary hyperhidrosis is unknown, although some surgeons claim it is caused by sympathetic over-activity. Nervousness or excitement can exacerbate the situation for many sufferers. Other factors can play a role; certain foods and drinks, nicotine, caffeine, and smells can trigger a response. A common complaint of patients is they get nervous because they sweat, then sweat more because they are nervous.
Causes
Causes
Common Causes
- Alcohol withdrawal
- Anxiety
- Nightmare
- Night terror
- Panic attack
- Shock
- ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction
- Trauma
- Vagal episode
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Acromegaly
- Acute hypertensive crisis
- Acute rheumatic fever
- Autonomic dystonia
- Brucellosis
- Carcinoid syndrome
- Castration
- Chronic infections
- Collagen vascular disease
- Diabetes Mellitus
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Drugs– Methylphenidate, Ospemifene, Rotigotine, Sodium oxybate
- Dumping syndrome
- Encephalitis
- Endocarditis lenta
- Fever
- Fructose intolerance
- Glycogenoses I, III, VI
- Heart attack
- HIV infection
- Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
- Hypernephroma
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypoglycemic shock
- Hypogonadism
- Infliximab
- Insulinoma
- Left heart failure
- Malaria
- Mastocytosis
- Menopause
- Mercury poisoning
- Milnacipran hydrochloride
- Nabilone
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
- Obesity
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Phenylketonuria
- Pheochromocytoma
- Pneumonia
- Polyneuropathy
- Primary liver cell carcinoma
- Pulmonary Embolism
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Rickets
- Sarcomas
- Serotonin syndrome
- Shock
- Syringomyelia
- Tabes Dorsalis
- Traumatic brain injury
- Tuberculosis
- Vagal episode
- Viral infections
- Withdrawal in drug addicts
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