Medically reviewed by Valerie Cacho, MD Your sleep environment, hormone levels, and certain medications can affect your body temperature and cause sweating.  Sleeping in a cooler room and managing ...

There are many unanswered questions in life, but “Why do I sweat in my sleep?” shouldn’t be one of them. A night spent tossing and turning, waking up to damp sheets, pajamas that stick to you—all ...

Wake up sweating in the middle of the night? While it’s not likely to be a serious problem, it can cost you precious sleep and keep your body from performing all the health-promoting (and necessary) ...

Night sweats are more than just bothersome dampness — they’re an unwelcome disruption to peaceful slumber, causing discomfort and unsettling sleep patterns for many. Characterized by excessive ...

Do you ever experience night sweats? It’s an uncomfortable feeling, to wake from sleep drenched in sweat, your pajamas and sheets damp and clammy. Sweating at night can be highly disruptive to sleep, ...

Tossing and turning in bed and randomly waking up at night is uncomfortable, but experiencing night sweats may take the cake in comparison. You may have suffered from night sweats once in a blue moon ...

Nothing disturbs your rest quite like an intensive sweating session. There are, after all, few things more uncomfortable than waking up drenched despite a comfortable mattress, the perfect duvet and ...

It can be disconcerting to climb into bed, fall asleep easily and wake up drenched in sweat hours later—or to feel overheated once insomnia kicks and you just can’t seem to turn off your brain. What’s ...

Hot days and hot nights are a recipe for broken sleep at night as you toss and turn in the warmer weather. And it can also be a sweaty situation that can leave bedsheets soaked and you feeling tired ...

Sweating while you sleep could be a symptom of menopause if you're of menopausal age. It could also be due to an infection like pneumonia, a UTI, the flu, or malaria. Drinking alcohol before bed could ...

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